Gua Sha scrapes out sha elephant Dark blue is mostly cold elephants

Gua Sha is a commonly used health care and treatment method, which refers to the process of scraping on a certain part of the human body using the Gua Sha tool. Gua Sha, what is Sha Sha?

Lin Guoqing, deputy chief physician of xiamen Simingrui Laichun Traditional Chinese Medicine Outpatient Department, said that sha has three meanings, one is the "sand" of the sand grains; the second refers to the blood excretion of menstrual blood that contains toxins in the capillaries; and the third is a method that embodies the way out of the disease and evil.

Gua Sha has a sha elephant, which refers to red, purple-red, dark cyan or bluish-black spots and patches that appear at the scraping site. Sha elephants have certain auxiliary diagnostic value, for example, sha elephants appear red to represent blood fever, purple red to represent bruises, dark cyan is mostly cold elephants, if it is blue-black, it is more bruised.

Gua Sha has two effects: health care and medical treatment. Lin Guoqing said that through gua sha, it can alleviate pain, improve symptoms and restore physical functions. Its effect is to dredge the meridians, relieve fatigue, enhance immunity, and fight sub-health. Health care gua sha can generally not be sha, such as head gua sha, abdominal gua sha, across the clothes gua sha also has a certain effect.

Acupuncture, massage, cupping, physiotherapy and other therapies that can treat common diseases and chronic diseases can basically be treated with gua sha, and the disease involves internal, external, gynecological and pediatric departments. Clinically, it is particularly effective for acne, heat stroke and various pains (such as headache, chest pain, neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain).

(Reporter Bai Li)

Source: Xiamen Evening News