Scraping therapy (Gua sha)
Scraping therapy (Gua sha) is a natural, alternative therapy that involves scraping your skin with a massage tool to stimulate immune response and improve your circulation.
Traditional Chinese medicine
Scraping therapy Gua sha (Chinese: 刮痧), or kerokan (in Indonesia), is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) healing technique in which a tool is used to scrape people’s skin in order to produce light petechiae.
It is believed that Gua Sha therapy can serve as a mechanical signal to enhance the immune surveillance function of the skin during the natural resolving of the petechiae, through which scraping may result in therapeutic benefits. Scraping may release unhealthy bodily matter from blood stasis within sore, tired, stiff, or injured muscle areas to stimulate new oxygenated blood flow to the areas, thus promoting metabolic cell repair, regeneration, healing, and recovery.
Benefits of Scraping Therapy
- treat soft tissue tightness and injury
- treat muscle pain and tension
- stimulate immune response
- relax the meridians
- women near menopause
- people with neck and shoulder pain from computer use
- sports muscle pain
- male weightlifters, to help with recovery after training
- older adults with back pain
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