How to perform scraping on the front neck

Gua Sha is a way of health care in people's daily life. Although this method seems cruel, it does have certain benefits to human health. Like cupping, scraping is also a method of treating and preventing diseases in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is relatively simple to perform, but can be painful. Some people often feel discomfort in their shoulders and necks. If they want to do scraping, how should they do it?

Technique: Dip the back of your index and middle fingers in water, and apply pinching technique on the front of the neck to make three vertical lines until sha appears on the neck.

Key points: The patient should sit or lie on his back, and the operator should move quickly and flexibly, and it is best to hear "pop, pop" sounds during the operation.

However, the above method is rather painful for patients, so let's try scraping the front neck with a scraping board.

Apply scraping oil evenly on the front neck to be scraped, and use the flat surface of the scraping board to scrape from top to bottom along the midline to the Tiantu point. The technique should be gentle, and stop when sha appears; then, scrape both sides separately with the same force as above, so as not to cause discomfort in the throat.

Pinching or scraping the throat area can quickly clear the throat and relieve sore throat, and it also has a good therapeutic effect on inflammation in this area in Western medicine.

Gua Sha is guided by the theory of meridians and acupoints in traditional Chinese medicine. Through the use of special scraping instruments and corresponding techniques, a certain medium is dipped in the body surface to repeatedly scrape and rub, causing local skin changes such as red millet-like or dark red bleeding spots, thereby achieving the effect of activating blood circulation and removing sha. Because of its simplicity, convenience, low cost and effectiveness, it is widely used in clinical practice and is suitable for medical treatment and family health care. It can also be used in conjunction with acupuncture, cupping, bloodletting and other therapies to enhance the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, expelling evil and detoxifying.

Gua Sha Indications

Colds, fever, headaches, coughs, vomiting, diarrhea, heat stroke, etc. caused by exogenous evil, acute and chronic bronchitis, lung infections, asthma, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, sequelae of stroke, urinary tract infections, enuresis, acute and chronic gastritis, enteritis, constipation, diarrhea, hypertension, dizziness, diabetes, cholecystitis, hepatitis, edema, various neuralgia, spasmodic pain in internal organs, such as: neuralgia, vascular headache, trigeminal neuralgia, biliary colic, gastrointestinal spasm, insomnia, nightmares, neurosis and other symptoms. Except for the indications for caution and contraindications, various diseases, including some difficult and complicated diseases, can be treated with holographic meridian scraping therapy. Surgical diseases: various surgical diseases with pain as the main symptom, such as acute sprain, various soft tissue pains caused by wind, cold and dampness, various bone and joint diseases, sciatica, periarthritis of the shoulder, stiff neck, chronic low back pain, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, bone hyperplasia of the cervical, lumbar and knee joints, femoral head necrosis, surgical diseases such as hemorrhoids, skin itching, urticaria, acne, eczema, hair loss, etc. Pediatric diseases: malnutrition, loss of appetite, growth retardation, cold and fever in children, diarrhea, enuresis and other diseases.

ENT diseases: toothache, rhinitis, sinusitis, sore throat, decreased vision, amblyopia, juvenile pseudomyopia, acute conjunctivitis, deafness, tinnitus and other diseases. Gynecological diseases: dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, irregular menstruation, breast hyperplasia, postpartum diseases, etc. Health care: disease prevention, recovery after illness, physical fitness, weight loss, beauty, etc.

Generally speaking, if you have ancient coins at home, it is best to use them for scraping, but many families now do not have such things. Then, you can go to some pharmacies or hospitals to buy a scraping board, which is also a very useful tool and more professional. During the operation, the technique is extremely important. If you don't master the skills, it is easy to cause serious damage to the skin or even bleeding.