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Gua Sha is a traditional Chinese medicine technique using a flat and wide tool (traditionally jade or animal horn were used) in a repetitive motion pressed firmly across a tight area of musculature. It helps to promote smooth flow of blood, qi, and lymph to the right area. It also effectively breaks up adhesions and knots within the muscles. It also helps to clear blood stagnation and blood stasis.
1. After scraping, if the body is sweating, Please dry yourself immediately, and avoid the wind blowing . Be careful not to catch a cold, keep yourself warm. Rest for a while (15-20 minutes) after the treatment ( Meantime, we will give you the acupuncture to reinforce your detoxication.)
2. It is recommended to drink some warm water, salt water, warm ginger soup, etc. to warm your body after the treatment. Don’t drink ice water to avoid obstructing the discharge of toxic and to improve your metabolism inside the body.
3. No cold shower after detox scarping treatment
4. Within 2 to 3 days after detox scraping treatment, usually the affected area will have pain, itching, insect crawling, chills, fever, or uneven rash changes, which are normal.
5. From the next day on, you should avoid fast food that is cold, greasy, and heavy salt, otherwise you may not be able to detox as much as it should be.
6. If after several treatments, the correct curettage is used, but the condition has not been alleviated or even worsened, then it is recommended to go to the hospital for further examination and switch to other treatments.
Once the human body is exuding the toxic, it can led the toxic out of your body to improve the balance of qi and blood. It is very effective against colds, heatstroke and muscle soreness. This type of detox scraping is recommended to scrape the puppets. Point, if no scarping marks shows at all, it may indicate the body has too much chill inside of you.
Not only that, the strength of scraping need to be adjusted according to the individual’s physical condition if the person physically weaker should not conduct with a heavy scrape.
In addition, if scrape on the trigger points on the face, just apply gently strength to promote the blood circulation and eliminate edema.
This is the most common myth on scraping treatment. Most people think that scraping treatment must show a lot of dark and purple color on the body. It is best to look like bruise, then the impact on the treatment effect is even more superior, even if you you feel pain and unbearable is consider acceptable. Some practitioners or doctors will ask you to clench your teeth and hold your breath to bear the pain while doing the scarping treatment. In fact, it is just a ridiculous wrong point of view on the whole myth.
It may even cause a particularly tired feeling for some patients will be lethargic for several days; and if over pursuing the dark black, deep purple effect on the scarping the body or create more pain in this treatment on purposely , It’s impossible to accidentally scratch the skin and may cause a bacterial infection on the skin.
Some practitioners have revealed that whether a person has a sickness or not is actually closely related to their physical constitution; some people will have ecchymosis after just a few scrapes, and some people’s body will not be able to shows any colors mark even if they scarping hard. The appearance of red and purple ecchymosis varies greatly depending on the constitution. If the scraping force is not properly grasped, the redness and swelling that comes out at the end may be just microvascular rupture or damage to the subcutaneous tissue.
In addition, if the physique belongs to patients who are usually not prone to belching, it means the patients is lack of qi balance internally, then they should eat more foods, or herb that can improve the qi flowing inside your body, such as those Chinese herbs Siwu Tang, Bazhen Tang, Buzhong Yiqi Tang, Sijunzi Tang, etc.