What is the effect of Gua Sha? There are six things to pay attention to after gua sha

We all know that there are many ways to maintain health in Chinese medicine, gua sha is one of the most popular ways of health, it can play a very good effect and role, deeply liked by people. The following are the effects of gua sha that we have sorted out for you and the things to pay attention to after gua sha, let's take a look at it, I hope to help you.

Efficacy of Gua Sha

1. Activate blood and dispel stasis

Gua Sha regulates muscle contraction and relaxation, allowing interstitial pressure to regulate blood circulation around scraped tissue. Increase tissue flow, so as to play a role in "activating blood and dissolving stasis" and "dispelling stasis and regenerating".

2. Disease prevention and health care

Back Gua Sha therapy has a good effect on painful diseases, colds and fevers, sub-health conditions, disease prevention and health care, and mild organ dysfunction.

3. Relax the tendons and communication

Gua Sha in the back eliminates the pain lesion and the muscle tension is eliminated; if the tense muscle is relaxed, the pain and compression symptoms can also be significantly reduced or disappeared, and it is conducive to the repair of the lesion.

Things to pay attention to after gua sha

1, shelter from the wind and pay attention to keep warm

Gua Sha should be sheltered from the wind and pay attention to keep warm. Exposure should be minimized at low room temperatures, and no scraping should be done at fans or convective winds at high temperatures in summer. Due to the opening of the skin sweat holes when scraping, if the evil of wind and cold is encountered, the evil qi can be directly into the person through the vented pores, which not only affects the curative effect of gua sha, but also causes new diseases due to feeling the wind and cold.

2. Drink a cup of hot water after scraping

Gua Sha process will make sweat excretion, evil gas outflow, will consume part of the body's jin liquid, gua sha after drinking a cup of hot water, not only can supplement the consumption part, but also promote metabolism, accelerate the discharge of metabolites.

3. The time to scrape again

Gua Sha again takes place after the last rash subsides (about 5 to 7 days).

4. After gua sha, it is not advisable to make up scraping in the same place

Before the previous gua sha site has not receded, it is not advisable to try the sha again in the same place. Gua Sha time again needs to be spaced 3-6 days, with supradermal sha retreat as the standard, and can usually be scraped to strengthen the role of relapse.

5. Prevent stun scratching

Curettage, the phenomenon of syncope that occurs during the treatment of gua sha. Although the meridian holographic gua sha method is safe and has no side effects, individual patients sometimes have the conditions to receive treatment for gua sha at a certain time, or the operator's scratching technique is improper and the scratching time is too long when treating gua sha, and the phenomenon of stun will occur.

6. The time to bathe after gua sha

After gua sha treatment, in order to avoid the evil of wind and cold, it is necessary to close the pores of the skin and restore their original state before bathing, generally about 3 hours. However, during the bathing process, when the water stains are not dry, it can be scraped. Because the pores are slightly open and drained during the bath, the use of gua sha at this time is less, and the effect is remarkable, but attention should be paid to keeping warm.