Benefits of Gua Sha

Author : Coach Date : 5/19/2022 11:54:39 PM

Gua Sha is one of the methods of Traditional Chinese medicine health maintenance, in our daily life, there are many people will use Gua Sha to achieve the elimination of evil qi, dispel wind and cold, enhance immunity and other effects, is a very good health care method. Experts pointed out that gua sha is achieved through benign stimulation of the body surface to achieve a health effect, and its benefits are very obvious. The common benefits of Gua Sha are:

First, scraping hands and feet can play a role in the purpose of ventilation. Women often have symptoms of cold hands and feet, which Chinese medicine believes is mainly related to the lack of yang qi or poor operation of qi and blood in the body. You can first scrape the palm with the surface of the scraping board, and after the palm is hot, use the grooves on the scraping board to scrape the four sides of the finger, from the root to the fingertip, 5 to 10 times in each direction, which can effectively travel the air network.

Second, scraping the abdomen can be laxative. Long-term constipation will not only affect the function of digestion and absorption, but also cause the body to absorb a large number of toxins. Patients can scrape the surface of the plate from top to bottom in the abdomen, sequentially from left to right. It should be noted that if there is a phenomenon of internal organ sagging, it should be scraped from the bottom up.

Third, the shaving of the eye can be clear. Many people do eye exercises and are very familiar with several of these acupuncture points. Replacing finger rubbing with gua sha can play a better stimulating effect on acupuncture points. The eye points should be first tapped with a gua sha comb (on both sides of the bridge of the nose, about half a minute from the inner corner of the eye), and then the eye point should be used as the starting point and the outer corner eye corner as the end point, and the upper orbit and the lower orbit should be scraped from the upper orbit and the lower orbit, respectively. This can effectively improve the operation of meridian qi and blood around the eyes, and achieve the purpose of relieving eye fatigue.

Fourth, scraping the neck can relieve muscles and activate blood. Neck and shoulder discomfort is an occupational disease of the case worker, gua sha can play a role in relieving muscles and activating blood, improving the local qi and blood stasis state. Patients should choose three routes, from the midpoint of the posterior hairline to the large vertebral acupoint (the lower recess of the seventh cervical spinous process), and from the upper edge of the two outer corners of the posterior hairline to the left and right shoulders. In addition, scraping this part when you have a cold can also play a role in clearing the wind and spreading evil.