Does scraping hurt?

It is natural that scraping will hurt. As long as friends have carefully understood the steps of scraping and its principles of treating diseases, they will definitely know why scraping hurts. Gua Sha is achieved by scraping the skin vigorously with a Gua Sha tool, massaging the nerves on the skin surface, and activating blood circulation to eliminate various diseases. This will produce a tingling sensation and cause pain in the process, so the details are as follows.

The success of a scraping treatment depends on the scraping techniques. The effectiveness of a scraping treatment is closely related to the scraping techniques. This article mainly introduces the scraping techniques of commonly used scraping techniques.

1. Pressing force

When scraping, in addition to applying force in the scraping direction, it is more important to have downward pressure on the skin, because the meridians and holographic acupoints are at a certain depth in the human body, and the scraping force must be transmitted to the deep tissues to have a therapeutic effect. The penetration depth of the scraper force should reach the subcutaneous tissue or muscle. If the force is strong, it can reach the bones and inner muscles. The most important thing to avoid when scraping is not using pressure and only rubbing the skin surface. This scraping method not only has no therapeutic effect, but also causes epidermal edema due to repeated friction. However, the greater the pressure, the better. People's physical conditions and medical conditions are different, so the intensity of pressure during treatment may also be different. The local anatomical structures of various parts are different, and the pressure intensity they can withstand is also different. The pressure on the protruding parts of the bones should be appropriately reduced compared to other parts. The intensity can be determined according to the patient's physical condition, condition and tolerance. The correct scraping technique is to always maintain pressure. Each time you scrape, the speed should be uniform and the force should be steady. Do not scrape lightly and heavily at the beginning or heavily at the end.

2. Combination of points, surfaces and lines

Points are acupuncture points, which are the places where the qi of the internal organs and meridians of the human body is infused into the body surface. The surface refers to the part where the edge of the scraper touches the skin during scraping therapy, which is about 1 inch wide. This surface, in terms of meridians, is the skin part; in terms of holographic acupoint areas, it is the acupoint area. The line refers to the meridian, which is the main line in the meridian system. It runs along the body surface and connects to the deep part, and is about 1 mm wide. point. The scraping method that combines surface and line scraping is to strengthen the stimulation of key acupoints while dredging the meridians, and to control a certain scraping width. Because the scraping range is within the range of the meridian skin, the meridian line is just below the skin range, and the scraping has a certain width, so it is convenient to accurately include the meridians, and the scraping of the holographic acupoint area has a certain area. Gua Sha therapy focuses on dredging and adjusting the meridians, supplemented by strengthening key acupoints. Compared with meridians and acupoints, the emphasis is on meridians. When scraping, the emphasis is on finding the meridians accurately. It is better to miss the acupoints than to miss the meridians. As long as the location of the meridians is accurate, the acupoints are located within them, and the effect of overall dredging and regulation of the meridians is always emphasized. The combination of points, surfaces and lines is the characteristic of scraping, which is also one of the reasons why scraping is simple to learn and has significant therapeutic effects.

It is inevitable that scraping will cause pain, just as good medicine tastes bitter and good methods of curing diseases certainly come at a price. Therefore, if you are determined to treat the disease through scraping, you must not be afraid of the pain caused by scraping. Otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted. In addition, in order to relieve pain, some methods are also pointed out above for your reference.