After scraping, physicians or massage therapists usually advise us not to expose ourselves to cold wind. So what happens if we blow wind after scraping?
What happens if we blow wind after scraping?
1. Blowing wind for a short time: Not a big impact
Actually, blowing wind for a short time after scraping doesn't have a big impact. The reason why it is emphasized not to blow wind after scraping is mainly because it is concerned that patients may blow wind for a long time and be greedy for coolness.
2. Blowing wind for a long time: May catch a cold
However, if you blow cold wind for a long time after scraping, it may cause the body to catch a cold.
Because after scraping, the pores in the local area of the body are open, and at this time, the skin pores are relaxed and excreting toxins. The evil of wind and cold is also easy to enter along with the loose muscle and skin. If you stay in a cold wind environment at this time, cold air is likely to enter the body through the open pores, causing the body to catch a cold, resulting in symptoms such as cold, sneezing, runny nose, local body stiffness, and cold pain.
What to do if you blow wind after scraping?
1. Keep warm in a timely manner
If you blow wind after scraping, you should add clothing in a timely manner to avoid aggravating the impact of the wind.
2. Induce sweating to release exterior
If you blow wind after scraping, you may experience symptoms of aversion to cold and feeling cold. At this time, you can eat some sweating-inducing foods to expel the evil wind, such as ginger, chili, and other spicy foods. You can also drink hot soup and porridge.
3. Take a hot shower
If you blow wind after scraping, if there is no obvious damage to the scraped skin after 3 hours of scraping, you can take a hot shower to stimulate the pores to open again and expel the wind evil out of the body through temperature.
How long after scraping can you blow wind?
Generally, it is recommended to wait for 8 hours after scraping before exposing oneself to wind. At this time, the pores of the skin close and return to their original state, and the skin has also had a certain amount of time to recover, reducing the impact of blowing wind on the body.
However, this time is not absolute, and different people can be flexible. For example, for some people with poor physical condition, if they blow wind after scraping and still feel the scraped area cold and stiff the next day, it is best to delay blowing wind according to their own situation.
What are the therapeutic effects of scraping?
1. Regulating Yin and Yang
Yin and Yang are the basic core of traditional Chinese medicine theory. Under normal circumstances, the human body maintains a relatively balanced state of Yin and Yang. When the balance of Yin and Yang is disrupted due to factors such as emotions, external factors, and injuries, pathological changes such as "Yin wins and Yang diseases, Yang wins and Yin diseases" can occur, resulting in clinical manifestations such as "Yang excess leads to heat, Yin excess leads to cold". The key to scraping treatment lies in regulating the excessive Yin or Yang according to the nature of the disease, so that the body returns to "balance of Yin and Yang", achieving relative balance of Yin and Yang, and restoring normal physiological functions to achieve the purpose of curing the disease.
The role of scraping in regulating Yin and Yang has the characteristics of dual-way beneficial adjustment. This is achieved through scraping techniques and selecting the appropriate parts. For example, if the disease is in the meridians and in the skin and flesh, light scraping is suitable; if the disease is in the organs and bones, heavy scraping is suitable. For example, for patients with unstable blood pressure, after scraping the trunk and limbs acupoints, the low blood pressure can increase, and the high blood pressure can decrease.
2. Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Scraping therapy has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Once the muscles, tendons, and bones in the human body are injured, local blood stasis will occur, resulting in poor circulation of meridians and blood. If the blood stasis is not eliminated, the pain will not stop. This is what we often say, "unobstructed is not painful, obstructed is painful." At this time, scraping in the local or corresponding acupoints can eliminate blood stasis, regenerate new blood, promote meridian circulation, and achieve the purpose of unobstructed and painless.
3. Clearing heat and reducing swelling
In traditional Chinese medicine, there is a treatment principle called "heat causes diseases", which means that when treating hot diseases, heat-releasing methods should be used. Based on this principle, when treating hot diseases, we can stimulate by scraping to expel the pathogenic heat, so that the internal yang heat can penetrate to the surface of the body and eventually be eliminated, clearing the blood stasis, swelling, and toxins in the body.
4. Removing phlegm, relieving spasms, softening hardness, and dispersing nodules
Scraping and cupping treatment can relieve the surface lumps and wind conditions caused by phlegm dampness. It can make the pores open and smooth, and the phlegm heat and pus poison can be excreted, showing obvious antispasmodic and dispersing nodules effects.
5. Supporting the healthy and expelling the pathogenic
By scraping the skin of the corresponding acupoints, which are affected by the disease, purplish-red congestion can be seen, allowing the pores to open and unblock, and various pathogenic evils such as wind, cold, phlegm, dampness, blood stasis, heat, and pus poison that are stagnant in the meridians, acupoints, and corresponding tissues and organs can be expelled from the skin and excreted externally, allowing the meridians to be unblocked.
In addition, when the body's positive energy is weak, external pathogenic evils are easy to invade. By scraping the relevant acupoints with the method of replenishing deficiency and purging excess, the weak visceral function can be enhanced, and it can resist external pathogenic evils, allowing the body to return to a normal state.
What are the contraindications of scraping therapy?
Although scraping therapy can be used for the treatment of various diseases, it also has contraindications and precautions.
1. Diseases with bleeding tendencies should not be treated with or should be used with caution in scraping therapy. For example, thrombocytopenic diseases, allergic purpura, leukemia, etc. are not suitable for purging therapy, but should use tonifying or balanced tonifying and purging methods for scraping therapy.
2. For critically ill patients, such as acute infectious diseases, severe heart disease, immediate hospitalization for observation and treatment is required. If there is no other way, scraping therapy can be used temporarily for emergency treatment to buy time and treatment opportunities.
3. Newly occurred fractures should not be scraped, and scraping can only be performed after the fracture has healed. Surgical scars should also be scraped after two months. Surgical scars in cancer patients should be scraped with caution after surgery.
4. Infectious skin diseases: such as boils, abscesses, scars, ulcers, sexually transmitted skin diseases, and unexplained lumps on the skin should not be directly scraped at the lesion site.
5. Elderly and weak people, fasting, and the lower abdomen of pregnant women, and the lower abdomen during menstruation should not be scraped extensively. Facial scraping should be done lightly.
6. People who are afraid of or allergic to scraping therapy should not use this method.
7. Pregnant women and women during menstruation should not scrape the lower abdomen, Sanyinjiao acupoint, Hegu acupoint, and other acupoints. The scraping technique should be light and tonifying.
Precautions of scraping therapy
1. Precautions before scraping
1. Scraping therapy requires exposed skin, and when scraping, the skin pores are open and discharging sweat. If exposed to wind and cold evil, the evil can directly enter through the open pores, affecting the therapeutic effect of scraping, and can easily cause new diseases. Therefore, a good treatment place should be chosen before scraping, with fresh and well-ventilated air, and attention should be paid to keeping warm and avoiding wind. In summer, scraping should not be done in places with drafts. Try to expose as little skin as possible.
2. Choose a comfortable position for scraping to facilitate scraping and prevent dizziness from scraping.
3. The scraping tools should be strictly disinfected to prevent cross-infection. Before scraping, carefully check the scraping tools to avoid scraping the skin.
4. The hands of the practitioner should also be disinfected.
5. Before scraping, explain the general knowledge of scraping to the patient, eliminate their fear, and gain their cooperation to avoid dizziness from scraping.
6. Do not perform scraping treatment when the patient is excessively hungry, full, or extremely tense.
2. Precautions during scraping
1. The scraping technique should be forceful and uniform, tolerable, and stop scraping when the scraping marks appear.
2. For infants and young children and the elderly, the scraping technique should be light.
3. Do not blindly pursue scraping marks and use heavy pressure or extend the scraping time. The amount of scraping is influenced by multiple factors. Generally, blood-stagnation syndrome produces more scraping marks; excess syndrome, heat syndrome produces more scraping marks; deficiency syndrome, cold syndrome produces fewer scraping marks; taking too many medicines, especially steroids, makes it difficult to produce scraping marks; obese people and people with full muscles are not easy to produce scraping marks; the Yin meridians are more difficult to produce scraping marks than the Yang meridians; it is not easy to produce scraping marks when the room temperature is low.
4. During scraping, frequently inquire about the patient's feelings. If dizziness occurs, such as fatigue, dizziness, pale complexion, nausea, cold sweats, palpitations, cold limbs, or low blood pressure, coma, scraping should be stopped immediately. Comfort the patient and do not panic, help them lie down, pay attention to keeping warm, and drink warm water or sugar water. If the symptoms do not relieve, lightly press the corners of the scraping tool on the water ditch acupoint, avoiding edema after pressing with gravity. For the Baihui acupoint and Yongquan acupoint, use purging and scraping method. After the patient's condition improves, continue scraping Neiguan acupoint and Zusanli acupoint.
3. Precautions after scraping
1. Scraping treatment opens the sweat pores and discharges evil qi, which consumes part of the body's fluid. Therefore, after scraping, drink a glass of warm water and rest for a while.
2. After scraping treatment, in order to avoid the invasion of wind and cold evil, it is necessary to wait for the pores of the skin to close and return to their original state before taking a bath, usually about 3 hours.
3. For some patients with complicated and critically ill conditions, in addition to scraping treatment, other treatments should also be used, such as medication, to avoid delaying the condition.
