Gua Sha
Gua Sha therapy
Gua Sha is a healing technique of traditional East Asian medicine. Sometimes called ‘coining, spooning or scraping’, Gua Sha is defined as instrument-assisted unidirectional press-stroking of a lubricated area of the body surface to intentionally result in the appearance of small red petechiae called "sha" that will fade in 2 to 3 days.
Raising "sha" removes blood stagnation considered pathogenic in traditional East Asian medicine. Modern research shows the transitory therapeutic petechiae produce an anti inflammatory and immune protective effect that persists for days following a single Gua Sha treatment, accounting for the immediate relief that patients feel from pain, stiffness, fever, chill, cough, wheeze, nausea and vomiting. This is why Gua Sha is effective in acute and chronic internal organ disorders including liver inflammation in hepatitis. Gua Sha is also very effective in treating musculoskeletal pain, and is used to relax tight muscles and release deep stagnation and toxins from the body.
Western medicine has recently begun using this treatment, calling it "dermal friction therapy", or other names, due to its effectiveness in treating muscular pain, early stage colds and flu, headaches and fevers.
Raising "sha" removes blood stagnation considered pathogenic in traditional East Asian medicine. Modern research shows the transitory therapeutic petechiae produce an anti inflammatory and immune protective effect that persists for days following a single Gua Sha treatment, accounting for the immediate relief that patients feel from pain, stiffness, fever, chill, cough, wheeze, nausea and vomiting. This is why Gua Sha is effective in acute and chronic internal organ disorders including liver inflammation in hepatitis. Gua Sha is also very effective in treating musculoskeletal pain, and is used to relax tight muscles and release deep stagnation and toxins from the body.
Western medicine has recently begun using this treatment, calling it "dermal friction therapy", or other names, due to its effectiveness in treating muscular pain, early stage colds and flu, headaches and fevers.