How To Boost Your Health With Gua Sha

Chapter 5: How To Perform Gua Sha

Gua Sha can be performed using a traditional specialized tool such as Gua Sha board, Gua Sha slide or other Gua Sha tools.


The Method


The practitioner will applied treatment by gently scraping or rubbing the skin over a problem area as a deep massage in a downward movement. The actions performed on the skin will provide immediate relief from various ailments and is particularly good in pain and cold relief.


There is another technique used to cure fatigue from heavy work using a piece of ginger root soaked in rice wine to rub the spine in a downward movement from head to tail.


The main point of Gua Sha is repeated pressured strokes over lubricated skin with a smooth edge of Gua Sha tools.


The smooth edge of Gua Sha tool is placed against the skin surface that can be oiled first. Then it was pressed down firmly and moved in a downward motion along the muscles. These are term „triboeffleurage‟ or friction stroking. Gua Sha can be scraped along the acupuncture meridians or the surface of skin with each stroke length being 4-6 inches long.


The scraping caused extravasation of blood from peripheral capillaries called petechiae and this resulted in ecchymosis which is sub-cutaneous bruising. The blemish marks may take 2-4 days to fade.


However, Sha blemish does not caused bruising. Bruising is caused by capillary rupture while Sha blemish will fade from petechiae to echymosis. This is because Sha resolves faster compared to bruising.


There are a few variations of Sha color due to severity of individual‟s blood stasis which may be related to nature, severity and type of their disease. It can appear as a dark blue-black mark, shades of red or light pink. It may look painful but it is not.

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