The best part for scraping to remove moisture

Gua Sha is a common treatment technique in traditional Chinese medicine. It can not only help relieve body aches and cure colds and fevers, but is also very helpful in solving problems such as excessive moisture in the body. However, the key to scraping is to choose the correct acupoints, so that good results can be achieved. If you want to solve the problem of dampness through scraping, you must be very careful in choosing the acupoints.

1. Quchi Point

Positioning method: bend the elbow to a right angle, and the position is at the midpoint of the line connecting the lateral end of the elbow crease and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus. When the elbow is fully flexed, the position is at the lateral end of the elbow crease.

The effect of scraping: The damp and turbid air of the large intestine meridian gathers here. Scraping at this acupoint can transform the heat of the spleen and earth, dry out the damp heat in the large intestine meridian, relieve rough skin, elbow pain, eye diseases, toothache, and paralysis, numbness and pain in the upper limbs, and also relieve high blood pressure.

2. Xuehai Point

Positioning method: bend the knee, and locate the bulge of the medial head of the quadriceps femoris on the inner side of the thigh, two inches above the inner end of the patellar base. When you sit on a chair and straighten your legs, you will see a depression on the inside of the knee. The top of the raised muscle above the depression is the Xuehai point.

The effect of scraping: It can help relieve irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, abdominal distension due to gas reversal, eczema, skin itching, anemia and other conditions.

3. Yinlingquan Point

Positioning method: Sit upright or lie on your back. The Yinlingquan point is located on the inner side of the calf, in the depression below and behind the medial condyle of the tibia, between the posterior edge of the tibia and the gastrocnemius muscle, and on the origin of the soleus muscle.

The effect of scraping: If there is dampness in the body, it is easy to be affected by external dampness. Don't let the dampness in the body become too great. In addition to dispersing it outwards, you must also internalize some of it. Scraping the Yinlingquan acupoint can internalize dampness, clear away dampness and heat, strengthen the spleen and regulate qi, benefit the kidneys and regulate menstruation, dredge blood vessels and activate collaterals, and help relieve abdominal distension, diarrhea, edema, knee pain, etc.

4. Fenglong Point

Location: On the anterior and lateral side of the calf, 8 inches above the tip of the lateral malleolus, two thumb widths away from the anterior edge of the tibia.

The effect of scraping: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dampness will produce phlegm. This acupoint can eliminate phlegm and dampness, and clear the mind. It is especially suitable for people with more dampness in early autumn. It can help relieve chest and abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation, dizziness, irritability, facial edema, swollen limbs and other conditions induced by phlegm and dampness.

5. Tianshu Point

Positioning method: When locating the acupoint, you can lie on your back. The Tianshu point is located in the middle abdomen of the human body, two inches on both sides of the navel.

The effect of scraping: while removing blood stasis, it is also necessary to give evil a way out. Scraping at this acupoint can accelerate the excretion of dampness and toxicity from the feces, and relieve constipation, abdominal distension, diarrhea, pain around the navel, indigestion, nausea and vomiting, etc.

6. Zhongwan acupoint

Location method: Located in the upper abdomen, on the midline of the abdomen 4 inches above the navel. The point can be found by lying on your back. The midpoint of the line connecting the lower end of the sternum and the navel is this point.

Scraping effect: This acupoint is very effective in relieving abdominal distension, nausea, indigestion, diarrhea, constipation, etc. caused by summer heat and dampness. In addition, it also has a good effect on relieving insomnia caused by autumn dryness.

7. Earth Machine Cave

Positioning method: Located on the inner side of the human body's calf, 3 inches directly below the Yinlingquan point, that is, on the line connecting the tip of the medial malleolus and the Yinlingquan point, at the posterior edge of the inner side of the tibia.

Scraping effect: Diji point has strong antispasmodic, analgesic, qi-promoting and blood-activating effects, and can be used to assist in relieving abdominal pain, diarrhea, edema, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and other conditions.

The above introduces the 7 major acupoints for scraping to detoxify and remove dampness. If you have heavy dampness in your body, you can do some scraping to remove dampness and toxins. After scraping, you will find that your body becomes much more relaxed.