How to use scraping to treat melasma?

Speaking of scraping, I believe many people don’t know much about it. They just know that it is a medical method in traditional Chinese medicine. In fact, scraping is one of the health-preserving methods in traditional Chinese medicine. It can not only maintain health but also prevent and treat diseases. Of course, there are aspects that everyone doesn’t know. Scraping can also beautify, maintain skin, and expel toxins. In addition, scraping can also help treat chloasma. Here we will talk about how to use scraping to treat chloasma.

Experts say that according to the basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine, chloasma can be divided into three common types: liver qi stagnation type, spleen earth deficiency type, and kidney water deficiency type. Facial scraping beauty therapy is a combination of tradition and modernity, and has a certain theoretical basis in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The basic theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the balance of yin and yang. Scraping the whole body to produce scars is to expel yin toxins, which is tangible. The face is where the yang meridians gather, and scraping away the sha qi is to expel yang toxins, which is intangible.

Gua Sha Therapy for Facial Melasma

1. Scrape your back

Hold the scraping board at a 45° angle to the skin and apply the blood-activating agent. ① Governor Meridian: focus on scraping Dazhui, Lingtai, and Mingmen; ② Bladder Meridian: focus on scraping the lung point, heart point, diaphragm point, liver point, gallbladder point, spleen point, and kidney point. Scrape from top to bottom 20 to 30 times.

2. Scraping along the meridians according to syndrome differentiation

For the syndrome of Qi stagnation and blood stasis, the Liver Meridian, Spleen Meridian and Governor Vessel are taken, with the focus on scraping Xuehai, Sanyinjiao, Taichong and Geshu; for the syndrome of liver-kidney Yin deficiency, the Liver Meridian, Kidney Meridian, Ren Vessel and Governor Vessel are taken, with the focus on scraping Taichong, Taixi, Guanyuan, Qihai, Ganshu, Shenshu and Mingmen.

3. Local scraping

Scrape the forehead 30 times from the front midline to the left and right sides; scrape horizontally from the philtrum point to the left and right; scrape from the Chengjiang point to the left and right sides diagonally upward to the temples; push from the temples to the hairline to above the ears. If the lesions are around the eyes, gently press and scrape the area around the eye, the waist and pupil bone, and the temples. The yellow-brown spots may become slightly heavier. Take once every other day, 10 days as a course of treatment.

Most people with melasma can choose scraping as an auxiliary treatment. It should be noted that scraping is prohibited on areas with ulcers, sores, rashes, infectious skin diseases, unexplained lumps on the body or face, as well as areas with acute sprains, traumatic pain, etc. People with severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and liver and kidney dysfunction should use scraping with caution; people who are excessively hungry, full, tired, or drunk should not accept gravity and large-area scraping; women should be careful about scraping their lower abdomen during menstruation, and scraping is also prohibited on the abdomen and lumbar sacral area of ​​pregnant women; people with bleeding tendency such as severe anemia, leukemia, aplastic anemia, and thrombocytopenia are prohibited from scraping.