The advantages and disadvantages of scraping and bloodletting

Gua Sha is mainly performed using scraping instruments and techniques. The skin is repeatedly scraped and rubbed to achieve the scraping effect. Gua Sha has a very good health-care effect and is becoming more and more popular among people. It can detoxify and remove dampness, dredge meridians, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and promote blood circulation. It has many benefits to the body. Therefore, if there is a lot of moisture in the body, patients with spleen deficiency can do appropriate scraping.

Bloodletting after scraping to promote detoxification

After scraping, toxins will appear on the surface of the human body in the form of sha, and disappear after a period of excretion. Bloodletting after scraping can accelerate the excretion of toxins, and the toxins will be discharged along with the blood.

Bloodletting after scraping - promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis

After scraping, local subcutaneous capillaries rupture and form blood congestion. Bloodletting can regulate blood circulation by discharging a certain amount of blood, thereby achieving the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

Bloodletting after scraping - activating blood circulation and relieving pain

Most people will experience pain in the scraped area after scraping. Through bloodletting and stimulation of the meridians, stagnant Qi and blood in the meridians can be unblocked, the body's physiological functions can be restored, and pain can be relieved.

Bloodletting after scraping – promoting metabolism

Scraping can enhance the body's immunity, while bloodletting after scraping can stimulate the hematopoietic function of the bone marrow, promote the body's metabolism, enhance disease resistance, and benefit physical health.

How to bleed after scraping

Plum Blossom Needle Bloodletting

1. Routinely disinfect the puncture site.

2. Use a sterilized three-edged needle to prick the area around the lesion in sequence to induce bleeding.

3. Use alcohol and cotton balls to disinfect the punctured skin again, and cover it with a sterile dressing if necessary.

Cupping and bloodletting

1. Routinely disinfect the bleeding area.

2. Use a three-edged needle, ceramic piece, thick filiform needle, small eyebrow knife, skin needle, rolling needle, etc. to puncture small blood vessels according to the size of the lesion and bleeding requirements, using the bloodletting method.

3. Place the cupping jar on the bleeding site and suck out the blood by cupping to enhance the effect of bloodletting.

4. The time for cupping is the same as that for cupping, and routine disinfection is performed after bloodletting is completed.