Nowadays, more and more people are learning about and using Gua Sha and benefiting from it. But do you know which country this treatment came from? And How did it come about and how did it develop? Let me tell you now
Gua Sha, one of the traditional Chinese natural therapies, based on the skin theory of traditional Chinese medicine, where instruments (ox horn, jade, cupping) are used to scrape the relevant parts of the skin in order to unblock the meridians and invigorate the blood and remove blood stasis.
The word “Gua Sha” means “scrape”. It originated in the Paleolithic era. When people were sick, they would instinctively use their hands or stone pieces to stroke and tap a part of their body surface, sometimes relieving the disease. After a long period of practice and accumulation, Bian’s stone scraping therapy gradually took shape, which is the prototype of “Gua Sha” therapy.
Chinese Gua Sha health method is the inheritance and development based on traditional Gua Sha therapy. With the development of modern science and technology, the external structure and surface treatment of scraping tools are more suitable for scraping various parts of the human body. The Gua Sha board made of stone reflects the characteristics of the green ecological natural method and avoids the adverse reactions brought about by metal implements, such as pain, easy skin injury and static electricity. It also avoids the harm to human skin from modern chemicals such as plastic products.
