Scraping is one of the traditional therapies of the motherland medicine, why the Chinese medicine said "noon do not scraping" "morning effect is good"?

Scraping is one of the traditional therapies of the motherland medicine, is based on the theory of Chinese medicine skin, with the utensil in the skin related parts of the scraping, in order to achieve the dredging of the meridian, blood circulation and the purpose of the purpose, the technique is simple, the adaptability of a wide range of symptoms. Especially in the cold winter, local cold, through the Gua Sha therapy can get rid of the body in the "cold".

The first thing you need to do is to understand the patient's condition and determine the location of the scraping for different diseases. Complementary method scraping scraping pressure small speed slow, stimulate the body positive qi. Clinically, mostly used for old, weak, long illness, serious illness or body type thin weak evidence patients. Laxative method of scraping Gua Sha scraping force, speed, can drain the disease, make hyper function back to normal, clinical mostly used for young, strong, new disease, acute disease or body strong solid patients. The flat tonic and flat diarrhea method is between the two, easy for patients to accept, and is often used in the health care of normal people or the treatment of deficiency and solid syndrome. For example, patients with varicose veins of the lower extremities, it is appropriate to use the bottom-up scraping or flat tonic and flat diarrhea techniques.

When scraping, the indoor temperature is relatively high, try to keep quiet, prohibit indoor convection wind. The first thing that you need to do is to get your hands on a good pair of shoes or boots and then you can go back to your favorite shoes or boots. Scraping Gua Sha can not immediately after bathing, because of the expansion of its pores, and accompanied by Gua Sha points, depending on the situation, 2 to 3 days before you can take a bath. It is best to drink a cup of hot water after gua sha, to supplement the body consumption of fluid, and can accelerate the body of metabolic substances discharge. Winter Gua Sha does not have to force Gua Sha, a part of the scraping 20 or so can be. It is worth paying attention to, don't frequent scraping within a day, midday should not scrape, morning scraping effect is better than the afternoon. At the same time, the order of scraping is from top to bottom, keep the skin lubricated, avoid damage to the skin.

In addition, there are some parts of the body that are not suitable for scraping. If you have serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, liver and kidney insufficiency and swelling; pregnant women's abdomen, lumbar and sacral areas prohibited gua sha so as not to cause miscarriage; body surface damage, boils, sores, spots and unexplained lumps and malignant tumors prohibited gua sha; contact skin disease, bleeding tendency and mental illnesses prohibited gua sha, gua sha will stimulate the onset of such diseases patients.