How long after a meal can I do scraping

Scraping, like cupping, is a method often used by people to remove moisture from the body. Gua Sha mainly uses a scraping board to scrape the capillaries under the human skin. The more severe the scraping is on a person, the more moisture there is in the body. But not everyone is suitable for scraping, so how long should a person wait after a meal before doing scraping?

When is scraping not suitable?

First, scraping can be done one hour after a meal. Patients who are too full, too hungry, or overly tired are not suitable for scraping.

Second, scraping therapy is not suitable for patients with skin diseases; patients with edema, diabetes and heart disease are not suitable for scraping therapy;

Third, patients with hemophilia, hemorrhagic purpura and other bleeding diseases cannot undergo scraping therapy;

Fourth, patients with low blood pressure, low blood sugar, excessive weakness, nervousness and fear of pain need light scraping.

Fifth, pregnant women, infants or young children should receive scraping under the guidance of a qualified physician.

Additional information

People who are not suitable for scraping:

1. People with severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, liver and kidney dysfunction, and general edema. Because Chinese medicine scraping therapy will cause subcutaneous congestion and promote blood circulation, which will increase the burden on the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys and aggravate the condition. In addition, do not perform Chinese scraping therapy during pregnancy or menstruation.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine scraping therapy is prohibited on any area with boils, ulcers, sores, rashes and lumps of unknown cause on the body surface, otherwise it will cause wound infection and spread. It is forbidden to use scraping therapy on the painful areas of acute sprains, trauma or fractures, because it will aggravate the bleeding at the wound.

3. People infected with contact skin diseases should avoid using Chinese medicine scraping therapy, as this may transmit the disease to others.

4. People with bleeding tendency, such as those in late stage of diabetes, severe anemia, leukemia, aplastic anemia and thrombocytopenia, should not use Chinese scraping therapy.

5. People who are too hungry, too tired, or drunk should not accept gravity or large-area Chinese medicine scraping therapy, otherwise they will suffer from collapse.

6. Traditional Chinese scraping therapy is prohibited on the eyes, lips, tongue, ear holes, nostrils, nipples, navels and other parts, because it will cause congestion in these mucous membranes and will not heal.

7. Psychiatric patients are prohibited from using Chinese scraping therapy because it may stimulate these patients to become ill.

8. Patients who are thin, have lost skin elasticity, or have protruding vertebrae on their backs should not use Chinese medicine scraping therapy.

How to improve the efficacy of scraping:

1. Use special scraping board, scraping lotion and scraping oil. Because the shape of the special scraping board is designed according to the anatomical morphology of the human body, it is suitable for scraping the meridian points and holographic acupoints of the human body to achieve the desired stimulation intensity. Gua Sha lotion has good lubricity and contains Chinese herbal ingredients that are beneficial to the skin. It can protect the skin, prevent infection and improve efficacy.

2. Correctly master the scraping methods and tonifying and purging techniques. The scraping techniques should be different due to different physical constitutions, different severity of illness and different duration of onset.

3. Choose the correct scraping area. Scraping where it hurts is the folk method of scraping. Only by selecting the corresponding meridian acupoints according to different diseases, the effect of scraping will be significant.

4. Make full use of the diagnostic and preventive functions of scraping, adhere to health scraping, prevent illness before it occurs, treat it in advance, and enhance the body's immune function. This is the best way to prevent and treat diseases.