Hello everyone, I am today's small editor "Don't sister".
Today, Sister Bietsu will talk to you about the "Gua Sha" miracle that has appeared in the land of China for thousands of years and revealed infinite mysterious powers.
The crazy spread of gua sha
Gua Sha, acupuncture, cupping, bloodletting, has a history of thousands of years in China, has been deeply loved by the people.
Even today, when modern medicine is so developed, they still fascinate people.
Among them, gua sha has become the most widely spread folk medicine because of its simple materials and low technical threshold.
A horn bone, a jade stone, an iron tong, or even a coin can be used as a tool for gua sha.
Sister Bei was even exposed to gua sha when she was five or six years old.
The opportunity was because my grandmother had a pain in her elbow socket once, and she used the copper coins and silver coins left at home to scrape herself to relieve the pain, and at that time I felt amazing.
Today, gua sha has already gone from the homes of ordinary people to the streets and alleys, appearing in major health care institutions and service places.
Some netizens said: Chinese on gua sha, it is really a secret madness, taking Beijing as an example, there are more than 600 large and small hospitals, and there are at least 800 places that provide gua sha services alone.
Many celebrities, such as TWINS members Ajiao, Asa, Liu Tao, Das, etc. have posted gua sha photos on Weibo.
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It can be seen that Gua Sha is popular in today's society.
Speaking of the origin of Gua Sha, it is actually related to Chinese superstition.
In the past, medical conditions were not developed, and people felt that diseases were almost all caused by "evil qi" entering the body, and gua sha could scrape out the evil qi, and the disease was naturally better.
Now, coupled with the propaganda of various folk "holy hands of chinese medicine", gua sha has begun to spread wildly: it can get wet, it can detoxify... It even became a god and cured all diseases.
What's going on with Gua Sha?
The above understanding of Gua Sha is actually "pseudoscience".
Gua Sha, essentially, is the use of blunt instruments, so that the capillaries in the upper layer of the skin rupture, blood penetrates into the skin cell space, and then the appearance of red ecchymosis.
It's exactly the same as someone slapping you hard and then leaving a few red palm prints on your face.
However, many people will definitely say: but after I shaved Sha, I did feel that the pain in some parts of the body was relieved, and people were much more comfortable.
Well, some studies have confirmed that gua sha can indeed relieve some pain, such as neck pain, back pain, low back pain and so on.
However, this is because after gua sha causes skin damage, the human body secretes a hormone called "endorphin", which has a certain pain relief effect like maca and opiates, and can make people feel happy.
This pleasure mechanism is very similar to how many people love to eat spicy: spicy mouth pain, stomach pain, wild tears, but inexplicably feel very cool.
This is precisely because endorphins are at work.
So some people are easily addicted to gua sha and don't scratch their hearts every week.
Gua Sha, can not scrape away the toxin, but may scrape the god of death
From the perspective of modern medicine, in addition to a slight pain-relieving effect, gua sha has no evidence to prove that it has a preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases.
On the contrary, if gua sha is often carried out, various diseases may be caused.
For example, gua sha will compress the blood to penetrate into the subcutaneous tissue, hemoglobin rupture, release a large amount of hemoglobin, lead to acute renal failure in severe cases, and even kill people if not treated in time.
The list of cases on the Internet that died of gua sha is a big catch.
In addition, many health care massage places "gua sha technicians" have not received formal training, gua sha tools are common.
When the disinfection is not thorough, coupled with improper operation leading to skin damage, there is a great risk of cross-infection of diseases, including but not limited to skin diseases, viral hepatitis, AIDS, syphilis, etc.
Where, don't be here, I hope that everyone will stay away from gua sha, widely informed: gua sha, scraping can not take away the toxin, but may scrape the god of death.