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Cold, fatigue, shoulder pain? The universal therapy in your eyes is actually very exquisite

author:Beijing News
Cold, fatigue, shoulder pain? The universal therapy in your eyes is actually very exquisite

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Recently, in October, Hunan Province, the eldest baby girl was diagnosed with a silver ring and egg whites, resulting in skin ulceration. Gua Sha is a traditional Chinese medicine treatment that is widely favored by the elderly. Jiang Yangyang, attending physician of the Tuina Department of Shunyi Hospital of Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, reminded that the baby's skin is delicate, and the strength, utensils and parts of gua sha need special attention, and it is not recommended that parents operate on their own.

Jiang Yangyang introduced that gua sha therapy is a kind of external treatment method that uses special instruments, under the guidance of the theory of meridian acupuncture points in traditional Chinese medicine, to use corresponding techniques to scrape on the surface of the body to produce skin flushing, or red millet grains, or purple red and other sha changes, so as to achieve blood activation, stasis, evil and detoxification.

Gua Sha has a wide range of indications and can be used for cold fever, heat stroke, headache, gastrointestinal disease, cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, lumbar muscle strain, knee joint problems, muscle spasms, etc., but the gua sha tool is exquisite. Jiang Yangyang reminded, "Gua Sha should use special instruments, not a coin, a spoon, or a magnetic card." At the same time, gua sha needs to be guided by the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and use professional operation techniques. ”

"The special scraping board should be checked for damage before use and strictly disinfected to prevent infection." The operator's hands also need to be disinfected, and the patient chooses a comfortable position, paying attention to keeping warm and sheltered from the wind, and not being too hungry, too full or extremely nervous. The operation force is uniform, tolerable degree, infants and the elderly should be light, the time should be controlled within 20 minutes, and the patient's condition should be paid close attention to. Rest well after gua sha is over, keep warm, and bathe for at least 3 hours. It takes about 1 week for the sha spots to dissipate before the second gua sha. Jiang Yangyang further emphasized that there are many precautions for gua sha, and it is not recommended that patients gua sha on their own and try to go to regular hospitals.

Many people have a misunderstanding about gua sha, believing that the blacker and purpleer the gua sha part, the better the effect. Jiang Yangyang pointed out that the appearance of sha is more or less affected by many aspects, under normal circumstances, blood stasis, empirical evidence, fever out of the sha; false evidence, cold out of the sha less, taking too many hormone drugs, obese, room temperature is too low, etc. is not easy to get out of the sha. At the same time, the following groups of people should be cautious about using gua sha, such as too thin, skin loss of elasticity; heart disease patients; edema patients; hemophilia or bleeding tendencies; children and the elderly weak. In addition, pregnant women's abdomen, lumbosacral area, women's nipples are forbidden to scrape; leukemia, platelets are scraped with caution; heart failure, kidney failure, cirrhosis of the liver ascites, severe edema of the whole body is prohibited to scrape; where the skin at the scraping site is ulcerated, damaged, inflammation should not be gua sha.

Beijing News reporter Liu Xu

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