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Scraping video tutorial

Scraping tutorial: straight press scraping method, indirect scraping method, point kneading method.

Straight press scraping method

First use a hot towel to scrub the scraped parts, after that in that part and then coated with the relative corresponding about scraping medium, in the scraping tool direct contact with the patient's skin, repeated scraping, until the cortex then the surface of gua sha traces can be.

Indirect scraping method

Put a layer of thin cloth on the part to be scraped, and then use the scraping tool to scrape directly on that not, this method is very effective to protect the skin, mainly for children and the elderly and so on.

3. The handful of gua sha method

According to the technique can be divided into hold gua sha method, pull gua sha method, squeeze gua sha method, pat gua sha method and the point of kneading method.

Dot rubbing method

The flat side of the scraper, in the patient's body parts for large parallel scraping. With the finger in the patient's certain parts or acupuncture points for point pressure, at the same time do round or spiral kneading, is point pressure and finger kneading composite technique. The method does not belong to the scraping technique and belongs to the massage technique, in the treatment and health care often with the scraping method with the application, can play a role in enhancing the efficacy and make up for the insufficiency of the scraping therapy.

In Gua Sha treatment is mainly used for head and face, abdomen, limbs joints and hands and feet.