What are the advantages and disadvantages of scraping?

Gua Sha is a traditional physical therapy and health-preserving method in Chinese medicine. It has become particularly popular in recent years. Beauty salons, foot massage parlors and health centers everywhere have launched Gua Sha programs. Many people also like to do it when they feel unwell or tired. However, before doing it, you must have a correct understanding of it. Gua Sha is a double-edged sword. It not only has many benefits to the human body, but also has some disadvantages.

Benefits of Gua Sha

1. Promote 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.

2. Regulate the internal organs

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

3. 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 for the human body, it also has disadvantages that cannot be ignored. During scraping, it will cause subcutaneous congestion and significantly accelerate blood circulation, which will significantly increase the burden on the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, and in severe cases, these organs will become diseased. In addition, scraping can easily damage the skin, damage skin tissue, and cause skin ulcers.