What are the principles of facial scraping?

"Gua Sha" is one of the outstanding achievements of traditional Chinese medicine. Historically, people used ramie to scrape and treat sha disease as early as the Tang Dynasty, and continued to use it in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Facial scraping beauty therapy is a novel skin treatment method derived from the principle of scraping to treat diseases. It uses a special facial scraping board to apply certain techniques along specific meridian points on the face, so that the blood vessels of the facial meridian points are unobstructed due to the stimulation of scraping, achieving the effects of promoting qi and blood circulation, unclogging pores, and soothing texture. Now I will introduce to you the principles of facial scraping in detail.

1. Relaxing muscles and tendons, dredging collaterals, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis: Gua Sha can relax muscles and tendons, dredge collaterals, eliminate painful lesions, and relieve muscle tension. While significantly alleviating pain and blood stasis symptoms, it is also beneficial to the recovery of lesions and sub-health. Meridian scraping regulates the flow of Qi and blood, dredges the meridians, activates blood circulation and removes blood stasis, and treats internal diseases externally. Meridians are the pathways through which Qi and blood circulate, irrigating the internal organs and moistening the skin externally to maintain normal physiological functions of the human body. Because Qi is the commander of blood, when Qi moves, blood also moves. If Qi stagnates, blood stagnates. If the meridians are unobstructed, all diseases will not occur.

2. Promote metabolism: The human body is constantly carrying out metabolic activities every day, and the waste produced in the metabolic process must be excreted in time. Gua Sha can promptly scrape away metabolic "garbage" from the body to the surface of the body and deposit it into the pores under the skin, thereby unblocking blood flow in the body and restoring natural metabolic vitality.

3. Self-hemolysis, detoxification and beauty care: The human body is constantly carrying out metabolic activities every day, and the waste produced in the metabolic process must be excreted in time. Gua Sha can promptly scrape away the metabolic "garbage" in the body to the body surface, deposit it into the pores under the skin, and make the blood flow in the body smooth. The sha scraped out is an external factor that causes blood vessels to dilate or capillaries to rupture and bleed, forming local congestion patches on the skin. The blood patches condense and then disperse on their own. This is autohemolysis, which is a benign delayed continuous stimulation process that can increase sweat secretion and enhance lymph circulation. It can not only stimulate and adjust the immune function, but also act on the cortex through centripetal nerves, continue to adjust the endocrine system in the process of excitement and inhibition of the brain, and achieve health and beauty effects.

4. Adjust breath and balance yin and yang: Traditional Chinese medicine places great emphasis on the balance of the body's yin and yang relationship. Gua Sha has a two-way regulating effect on human body functions. It can improve and adjust the functions of internal organs and restore their balance. The internal organs of the human body have specific division of labor and cooperation. If these internal organs information changes, it may affect the balance of the whole body. By stimulating specific reflex areas on the body surface, scraping can cause them to produce certain biological information, which is then reflected through the transmission system to the damaged, changing, or even diseased cells of the internal organs for adjustment. Therefore, scraping can improve and adjust the functions of the internal organs.

The above is the principles of facial scraping that I introduced to you. After facial scraping, your face will show its natural skin tone. The facial meridian points are stimulated by scraping and produce a thermal reaction, which increases the blood solubility and blood flow of the face, activates the damaged, dry and weak cells, and promotes the exchange and excretion of metabolic products, ultimately achieving the effects of detoxification, wrinkle relief, blood circulation and sore removal, anti-oxidation and whitening, and qi circulation and spot removal.