Scraping detailed steps and precautions

Step 1: Identify the symptoms

Before scraping, first of all, it is necessary to collect comprehensive disease data, analyze carefully, and clarify clinical diagnosis to determine whether it is an indication of scraping, and consider whether there are contraindication conditions.

The second step: because of people, because of disease to determine the scraping method according to the patient's disease and condition, determine the meridians or acupoints that need to be scraped, but also according to the patient's gender, age, fat and thin, the strength of the physique, the severity of the disease, the lesion location and the characteristics of the meridians and acupoints, the appropriate selection of scraping method.

The third step: determine the position of scraping in general, scraping position to scrape when the operator is simple, accurate, pleasant for the patient as the principle, and try to use a position to complete the whole treatment process. For patients with weak physique or excessive mental tension, the operation should be performed in the supine position.

gua sha factory says there are several positions commonly used for scraping therapy:

Prone position

It is suitable for scraping the head, neck, back, waist, buttocks and lower limbs.

Lateral decumbent position

It is suitable for scraping the side of the body or the upper and lower limbs.

Supine position

It is suitable for scraping the head, chest, abdomen and limbs.

Sit on your stomach

Suitable for scraping after the head, neck, back and upper limbs.

Sit on your side

It is suitable for scraping on one side of the head, cheek, ear, neck side, shoulder and upper limb, side rib.

Sit on your back

Suitable for scraping in front, face, neck, chest, abdomen, upper limbs or lower limbs inside, front side.

Standing and forward leaning positions

Suitable for scraping the back, waist and back side of lower limbs.

The fourth step: Choose the right scraping board

Before scraping, choose a suitable scraping board according to the scraping site and disease (the specific method has been applied to the scraping of the head, chest, abdomen and limbs.

Sit on your stomach

Suitable for scraping after the head, neck, back and upper limbs.

Sit on your side

It is suitable for scraping on one side of the head, cheek, ear, neck side, shoulder and upper limb, side rib.

Sit on your back

Suitable for scraping in front, face, neck, chest, abdomen, upper limbs or lower limbs inside, front side. Standing and front bent standing position is suitable for scraping the back, waist and back side of lower limbs.

The fourth step: Choose the right scraping board

Before scraping, choose a suitable scraping board (the specific method has been introduced in the previous article) according to the scraping site and disease, and then check whether the scraping board is clean, whether there are cracks on the edge. Scraping boards can be cleaned with disinfectant or soapy water and then dried with a towel. Different forms of scraping board.

Step 5: Apply scraping medium

If the part that needs to be scraped is exposed, the mouth of the scraping oil bottle is facing down, so that it drops slowly in the scraping part from the tiny hole, and the scraping board can be coated evenly from bottom to top. Scraping oil should not be applied too often, otherwise it will make the skin overly smooth, and is not conducive to scraping. Face, head typically can not be coated with scraping oil. Guasha activating blood agents can also be used to promote blood circulation and enhance curative effects.

Apply scraping oil

Step 6: Implement scraping

The practitioner holds the scraping plate with his right hand, after dipping in the scraping oil, gently scrape downward or repeatedly scrape from inside to outside with his wrist force. When scraping, he operates in the same direction, with moderate force and even force, typically scraping 10 to 20 times, and the subject's tolerance is the degree. Scraping should continuously ask the patient's feelings, ask the patient whether they can bear the intensity of scraping, scraping site pain, etc.

When scraping with purging method or Pingbupingxie technique, the scraping time of each part is typically within 5 minutes, and the scraping time of each part is 5-10 minutes. For some patients with fewer or even no scrapping, it is not necessary to force out the scrapping. At the same time, should also be combined with the specific situation of patients flexible grasp scraping time. Two scraping time intervals are typically 3 ~ 6 days, to fully disappear on the skin. ​Typically 3 ~ 5 times for a course of treatment.

Step 7: Clean up the mess

Promote the absorption of scraping and activating blood agent: massage the scraping and activating blood agent with the palm of the hand in the scraping part, so that the scraping and activating blood agent can be sufficiently absorbed to increase the efficacy.

​Wash the scraping site: use a disinfecting cotton ball or a wash towel to wipe the scraping oil on the scraping site.

Observe the color and shape changes of the scraping parts: after scraping treatment, because of the different conditions, the local treatment can appear different colors and different forms of the scrapping. The deep parts of the measles under the skin are mostly lump or nodular in different sizes.

After scraping treatment for half an hour, the scrapping marks on the skin surface will gradually merge, and the deep lump like scrapping will slowly disappear.

【 Attention to scraping】

Keep the room clean, quiet, warm and well-ventilated.

After scraping out the scraping for 30 minutes, I can not wash the cold water bath.

The elderly, frail, children and patients who are easily nervous and afraid of pain should be scraped with the filling method, and the technique should be gentle. During an operation, we should pay attention to observe the patient's facial expression and body state, so as to discover and deal with the unexpected situation in time.

Neck, armpit, waist and other places are lymphatic spread, the operation should be gentle, do not pull strong, so as to avoid Yin lymphatic reflux obstacles or damage to the meridian

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