Description
Gua Sha is a type of massage that uses special scraping instruments and techniques to rub the skin to remove energy blocks. It is used to treat a wide range of health conditions, including joint and muscle pain, headaches, fever, digestive disorders, asthma, and respiratory infections. The benefits of using a gua sha facial massager include reducing wrinkles, balancing spiritual energy, reducing dark circles and puffiness around the eyes, combating inflammation, improving the appearance of breakouts, enhancing circulation, speeding up healing, relieving tension and muscle pain, and encouraging lymphatic drainage.
WHAT IS GUA SHA ?
Gua Sha is guided by the theory of meridians and acupoints of traditional Chinese medicine, through special scraping instruments and corresponding techniques, dipping a certain medium, scraping and rubbing repeatedly on the body surface, so as to make the skin appear red military shape, or dark red bleeding spots and other scrapping changes, so as to achieve the effect of promoting blood circulation. Because of its simplicity, convenience, cheapness, and efficiency, it is widely used in the clinic and is suitable for medical and family health care. It can also be used with acupuncture, cupping, pricking and bloodletting, and other therapies to strengthen the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, expelling evil and detoxification.
The first written records of gua sha date back 700 years, to the era of the Ming Dynasty, though, the practice is thought to be much older than that, perhaps having been discovered in prehistoric times as the simple reflex of rubbing a painful area to make the pain go away.
The term gua sha is comprised of two Chinese words: gua, meaning to rub or scrape, and sha, a type of stagnant energy that causes excess heat to build within the body. Taken together, the term gua sha means the act of rubbing the skin to remove an energy blockage. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, by bringing heat to the skin surface, gua sha, releases the blocked energy and heat.
One of the original forms of physical therapy, gua sha is widely used to treat joint and muscle pain. Traditionally applied in accordance with the meridians, or energy channels of the body, many patients in China and other parts of Asia also use gua sha as a form of preventive medicine and the first line of defense against illness. Gua sha has been used to treat a wide range of both acute and chronic health conditions including headache, fever, digestive disorders, asthma, and respiratory infections as well as womens health issues, insomnia, and general fatigue.
THE BENEFIT OF GUA SHA
The gua sha plate has a thick surface, thin surface straight and edges. For the treatment of diseases, scrape the skin with the thin surface, scrape the skin with the thick surface for health care, and use edges and corners to wipe the acupoints near the joints and when you need to press the acupoints. In addition to the above characteristics, there are two curved grooves, curved grooves some fingers, toes, spine and other parts of the scraping treatment, which can obtain a satisfactory contact area and achieve a good therapeutic effect.
The effect of scraping on the body is roughly divided into two categories: one is the role of health care, the other is the treatment of diseases. Its mechanism of action is as follows:
Detoxification.
1.Diuresis and detoxification: by testing the kidney meridian, bladder meridian, and other parts, and drinking a cup of warm water before and after treatment, it can produce a good diuresis and detoxification effect
2.Sweating and detoxification: the application of volatile scraping oil with the function of sweating and relieving surface for scraping massage can promote the opening of pores, sweat excretion and accelerate metabolism, so as to make use of the excretion of toxins and wastes in the body.
3.Elimination of toxins: scraping therapy can make local tissues highly congested, blood vessels and nerves stimulated, blood vessels dilated, blood and lymph circulation faster, phagocytosis and transport capacity enhanced, thus accelerating the cleaning of wastes and toxins in the body.
4. Relaxing muscles and activating collaterals, so that the whole system has a better cycle so that people can be more relaxed, easier to fall asleep.
Benefits of using Jade gua sha facial massager include:
Smooth out fine lines and wrinkles
Balance your spiritual energy
Reduce dark circles and puffiness around the eye
Combat inflammation
Improve the appearance of breakouts
Enhance circulation
Speed up healing
Relieve tension and muscle pain
Encourage lymphatic drainage
Improve metabolism
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