Is it good to always do scraping?

Gua Sha can help dredge the meridians and relieve blood stasis. Some friends often experience cold hands and feet, which is mainly related to the body's insufficient Yang and poor circulation of Qi and blood. It can be solved by scraping, but long-term scraping does not necessarily benefit the body. Frequent scraping can irritate the subcutaneous tissue and cause skin damage. It is not suitable for patients with skin diseases and skin ulcers.

Benefits of Gua Sha

1. Promote metabolism

Promoting the metabolism of the human body is one of the important benefits of scraping. Under normal circumstances, human metabolism will not stop for a minute, but the waste it produces cannot be discharged from the body in time. Gua Sha can promote blood circulation, open skin pores, speed up the discharge of toxins in the body, and is of great benefit to maintaining normal metabolism.

2. Activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis

Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis is one of the biggest benefits of scraping for people in daily life. It can regulate the muscle contraction ability and the pressure between human tissues, thereby achieving the important role of promoting blood circulation and accelerating the flow of blood between tissues. It conforms to the concept of traditional Chinese medicine that if the blood circulation is unobstructed, there will be no pain. After promoting blood circulation, the body's fatigue or pain feelings will be reduced.

3. Promote blood circulation and activate collaterals

Nowadays, people work under great pressure and often work in the same posture, which makes diseases such as periarthritis of the shoulder, low back pain and cervical spondylosis very common. This is called soft tissue damage in traditional Chinese medicine. If not treated in time, adverse symptoms such as adhesion or fibrosis will occur, which will lead to a high incidence of various diseases. At this time, doing scraping more times can keep the body's meridians unobstructed, and people's muscles and nerves will be deeply relaxed.

4. Regulate the internal organs

When people do back scraping, it can also dredge the meridians on the back, and open up the Du meridian and bladder meridian on the back, which can effectively clean the internal environment of the human body and accelerate the metabolism of toxins in the body. Regularly scraping the back with essential oils can also improve the reflex ability of internal organs, enhance nerve conduction function, and improve the functions of multiple organs in the body. It has a good regulating effect on the sub-health that is often found in modern humans.

5. Detoxification

Clearing out toxins accumulated in the body is also the biggest benefit of scraping. Because when scraping, local tissues can become highly congested, which can significantly stimulate and dilate blood vessels and nerves in the body. It can increase the activity of phagocytes and promote the excretion of accumulated waste and toxins from the body, which can both purify the blood and improve the body's immunity.

Disadvantages of Gua Sha

Although scraping has many benefits to the human body, it also has disadvantages that cannot be ignored. During scraping, it will cause subcutaneous congestion and blood circulation will be significantly accelerated. At this time, the burden on the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys will be significantly increased, and in severe cases, these organs will cause lesions. In addition, scraping can easily damage the skin, cause damage to skin tissue, and cause skin ulcers. Therefore, people with skin inflammation or skin ulcers are not suitable for scraping, otherwise it will aggravate skin inflammation or induce skin infection. In addition, scraping will increase the burden on the heart. For patients with heart disease, the symptoms of heart disease may be aggravated after scraping. This is also a disadvantage of scraping that cannot be ignored.