What are the benefits of facial scraping?

Whether at home or abroad, most people have heard of traditional Chinese medical treatments such as scraping, acupuncture, and massage. Some people would like to learn more about these therapies in traditional Chinese medicine to see if they can help people improve their health and beautify their skin. Next, I will share with you one of the scraping therapies in traditional Chinese medicine, the most common methods and benefits of facial scraping.

The benefits and effects of scraping

Benign facial "scraping" stimulation can not only improve the microcirculation of facial blood vessels, increase the flow of blood, lymph and body fluids, so that the cells in the skin get sufficient nutrition and oxygen, but also accelerate cell metabolism, promote the shedding of aging cells, maintain the elasticity of fibers, stimulate the "potential" of the human body, and enable the brain to feedback information and redistribute energy throughout the body, thereby detoxifying and beautifying, relieving wrinkles, promoting qi and eliminating spots, and maintaining health and beauty.

Scraping method for head and face

The head is the meeting point of all yang meridians, while the face is where six of the twelve meridians, including the three yang meridians of the hands and feet, pass through, and is dominated by the Du meridian.

The distribution is roughly as follows:

1. Hand and Foot Yangming Meridians: most of the area below the eyes on the front;

2. Shaoyang Meridians of Hands and Feet: Areas above and below the ears;

3. Hand and Foot Taiyang Meridians: forehead above the eyebrows, top of the head, and back of the head.

Commonly used acupuncture points:

1. Chengjiang (Ren): Indications: madness, crooked mouth, swollen face, toothache, strengthening the body, balancing endocrine, moisturizing the muscles, and has an excellent inhibitory effect on acne before and after menstruation.

2. Daying (Stomach): Indications: fever, chills, facial edema, difficulty closing eyes, neck pain, scrofula, etc. It has a direct and substantial effect on restoring facial luster.

3. Cheek Cartilage (Stomach): Indications: wry mouth, clenched jaw, toothache, acne, aphonia, irritability, and tonsillitis. It has the effects of dispelling wind, activating collaterals and relieving pain.

4. Xiaguan (Stomach): Indications: tinnitus, deafness, toothache, and hearing loss. Can moisturize the skin. Eliminate acne.

5. Dicang (Stomach): Indications: drooling, aphonia, abdominal pain and stomach pain. It circulates meridians, strengthens the body and relieves pain, moisturizes the skin and eliminates eye bags.

6. Zygomatic (small intestine): Indications: swelling and pain under the eyes, trigeminal neuralgia. Eyelids cannot stop blinking, there are analgesics and antispasmodics. It has anti-wrinkle, anti-ulcer, blood stasis and wrinkle-removing effects.

7. Tinghui (Gallbladder): Indications: tinnitus, pus in the ear, mandibular arthritis, toothache, cheek swelling, dredging meridians and activating collaterals, activating facial cells, and improving hearing. Ruddy complexion.

The above is a partial introduction to the most common facial scraping methods and benefits in traditional Chinese medicine. If people want to achieve beauty and skin care effects through facial scraping in daily life, they can go to a regular medical institution for scraping. Gua Sha can not only beautify your skin, but also detoxify your body if you do it all over your body. But you need to pay attention to drink more water after scraping to replenish the body's water.