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.
1 Scrape the abdomen to laxative
Long-term constipation not only affects the function of digestion and absorption, but also causes the body to absorb toxins. The face of the scraping board can be scraped from top to bottom on the abdomen, from left to right. It should be noted that if there is internal organ sagging, it should be scraped from the bottom up.
2 Scrape your hands and feet and ventilate your breath
Women often have symptoms of cold hands and feet, which Chinese medicine believes is mainly related to the lack of yang qi in the body, or the poor operation of qi and blood.
It is recommended to 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, to be able to perform ventilation. The same principle can be applied to scraping feet.
3 Scratch the periphery of the eye, can see clearly
I believe that everyone has done eye exercises and is very familiar with several of the acupuncture points. Replacing finger rubbing with gua sha can form a more effective stimulation of acupuncture points.
First, use a gua sha comb to tap the eye point, then take the eye point as the starting point and the outer corner eye as the end point, and scrape from the upper orbit and the lower orbit respectively. It can improve the meridian qi and blood flow around the eyes, relieve eye fatigue and dryness.
4 Scrape the neck to activate blood and relieve muscles
Neck and shoulder discomfort is an "occupational disease" of the case worker, gua sha can activate blood and relax muscles, improve the state of local qi and blood stasis. Three main routes are chosen, namely the posterior mid-hairline to the large vertebral point, and 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 also has the effect of dispelling wind and relieving muscles.
5 Scrape the sternum and broaden the chest
Many people will have a feeling of chest tightness and shortness of breath after being in a bad mood or tired, and the lower half of the sternum can be slowly scraped from top to bottom with the one corner of the gua sha comb. At this position, there are eight acupuncture points in the "Qihui" middle acupoint, which stimulates this acupuncture point to have the effect of broadening the chest. In addition, people who love hiccups can also scrape this area frequently.
6 Scrape the ribs, relieve liver depression
Anxiety, depression, irritability, and long-term mental stress can lead to disorders of the entire body. Chinese medicine believes that normal emotional activities depend on the smoothing of the qi machine, and the liver can dredge the qi machine, so it can regulate the emotions.
Since the flanks on both sides of the human body are mainly distributed by the liver meridian, scraping this area can relieve liver depression, of which the focus is on the straight line of the nipple and the period of the intersection of the sixth intercostal point. When scraping, move slowly, look for and scrape the area of pain or nodule.
7 Scratch your head to refresh your mind
The head is where the yang meridians of the whole body converge. After getting up in the morning, scraping the head with a scraping comb can invigorate the yang qi and make people refreshed.
The method is to take the Baihui acupoint on the top of the head as the center and scrape it radially around until the scalp has a feeling of heat. If there is a point of pain, it can be repeatedly scraped 5 to 10 times at this point. note! Gua Sha is one of the traditional treatment methods, it has many advantages, but the uncomfortable population is also there, pregnant women are best not to gua sha, gua sha after drinking some warm boiled water, can speed up the discharge of toxins in the body, the toxin is gone, the body is naturally relaxed.