What should you pay attention to after scraping

Gua Sha is a very good health care method. It can detoxify, beautify the skin, dispel cold and dampness, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. It has many benefits to the body. Although scraping has many benefits, there are also many things to pay attention to after scraping. Because the pores will be opened and the skin will be more fragile after scraping, you should cover it with a towel or blanket in time to prevent the scraped area from being affected by cold wind, which may invade the body and cause other diseases.

(I) Before Gua Sha treatment

1. Gua Sha should be performed in a spacious and bright room with fresh and flowing air to provide patients with a good treatment environment. During the operation, you should avoid wind and keep warm. If the room temperature is low, you should expose as little body part as possible. In summer, you should not scrape in front of an electric fan, air conditioning vent, or in a drafty place. In winter, you should avoid the cold and drafty places.

2. The scraping treatment room should be kept quiet and noise-free to help stabilize the patient's mood and cooperate with the treatment.

3. Check whether the scraping instruments are damaged and clean and disinfect them. The hands of the practitioner should also be kept clean.

4. The patient chooses a suitable scraping position, fully exposes the skin of the scraping area, and scrubs it clean.

(II) Gua Sha treatment

1. During the scraping process, attention should be paid to basic operations, especially the method of holding the scraper. During treatment, the thick side of the scraper should be against the palm, and the thin side of the health scraper should be against the palm.

2. During the scraping process, the sensitive points should be identified, as these sensitive points vary from person to person or condition to condition. In addition, you should keep the force even and master the correct method of tonifying and purging. The force used varies according to the person or condition.

3. The scraping area should be selected according to the condition of the disease. Generally, 2 to 4 or 4 to 8 scraping marks can be left on each area, and each scraping mark is 6 to 9 cm long. Depending on the location, the sha marks can be scraped into straight lines or arcs. Do not scrape the same area again until the sha spots from the previous scraping treatment have disappeared.

4. When scraping with the draining method or the equal-tonifying and equal-draining method, each part should generally be scraped for 3 to 5 minutes; when scraping with the tonifying method, each part should generally be scraped for 5 to 10 minutes. When the room temperature is too high in summer, the scraping time should be strictly controlled. There is no strict time limit for health scraping, as long as you feel good. The next scraping session should be done 3 to 6 days apart, until the sha marks on the skin disappear.

5. During the scraping process, you should observe the patient's reaction changes while scraping and talk to the patient from time to time to avoid dizziness. If the person feels dizzy or has abnormal pain, fever, sweating, irritability, rapid pulse, etc., the scraping should be stopped immediately, and the person should be asked to lie down, rest for a while, and drink hot sugar water. Generally, the condition will improve quickly. If it doesn't work, you can use scraping of Baihui, Neiguan, Yongquan and other acupoints as emergency treatment.

6. When scraping, the amount of sha produced is affected by many factors, so you should not pursue the amount of sha one-sidedly. Generally speaking, people with deficiency syndrome and cold syndrome have less sha, while people with excess syndrome and heat syndrome have more sha. People who take a lot of medicines, especially hormone drugs, are less likely to get sha. Obese people and those with muscular bodies are less likely to get sha. Yin meridians are less likely to get sha than yang meridians. Sha is less likely to occur when the room temperature is too low. The amount of sha is not completely proportional to the treatment effect. As long as you master the correct scraping method and location, there will be a therapeutic effect.

(III) After Gua Sha Treatment

1. After scraping, use a clean medical cotton ball to wipe off the oil, scraping oil, etc. on the patient's body, and let the patient put on clothes and rest for a while.

2. Gua Sha opens sweat pores and expels evil spirits, which consumes some of the body's body fluids, so you should drink hot water, preferably light sugar and salt water or ginger soup.

3. Do not use electric fans or be exposed to wind after scraping to prevent evil wind from penetrating the pores and dilating the body. If you want to take a shower, you must wait until the skin pores close and return to their original state, which usually takes about 3 hours.

4. For some complex and critically ill patients, in addition to scraping treatment, other treatments such as medication should be used to avoid delaying the disease.