The benefits of scraping to the human body are numerous. Regular scraping can relieve fatigue and enhance immune function. The role of scraping can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, eliminate toxins from the body, and have the effect of preventing diseases and maintaining health. Many people do not know what precautions should be taken after scraping. Let's take a look together below.
The role of scraping
1. Promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis
Scraping can regulate the contraction and relaxation of muscles, adjust the pressure between tissues, and promote blood circulation around the scraped tissues. It increases tissue flow, thus playing a role in promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, and generating new blood.
2. Disease prevention and health maintenance
Scraping therapy on the back has a good therapeutic effect on painful diseases, cold and fever, sub-health conditions, prevention and health maintenance, as well as mild dysfunction of internal organs.
3. Relax tendons and activate collaterals
Scraping on the back eliminates painful lesions and relieves muscle tension. If the tense muscles can be relaxed, the symptoms of pain and compression can be significantly reduced or disappear, which is also conducive to the repair of lesions.
4. Eliminate toxins
The scraping process can cause local tissues to become highly congested. The stimulation of blood vessels and nerves causes blood vessels to dilate, blood flow and lymphatic fluid to accelerate, phagocytic activity and transport capacity to strengthen, thereby accelerating the elimination of waste and toxins from the body. This purifies the blood, increases overall resistance, and can alleviate the condition and promote recovery.
5. Correct imbalances and expel pathogenic factors
Scraping treats the corresponding acupoints on the skin of the diseased area, causing blue or purple congested sha marks to appear. This opens up the follicles, allowing various pathogenic factors such as wind, cold, phlegm, dampness, blood stasis, heat, and pus toxins that are stagnated in the meridians, acupoints, and corresponding tissues and organs to be expelled externally through the skin, thus unblocking the meridians.
6. Weight loss
While scraping for weight loss, patients should also be advised to engage in physical exercise, pay attention to a balanced diet, and consume less high-fat, high-sugar, and high-calorie foods while eating more vegetables and fruits. Crash dieting should be avoided in the pursuit of rapid weight loss, as severe dietary restriction can lead to dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, ketoacidosis, and even myocardial infarction or cerebral thrombosis.
Precautions after scraping
1. Avoid drafts and keep warm
Scraping should be done in a windless environment, and attention should be paid to keeping warm. When the room temperature is low, try to minimize the exposed areas. In hot summer temperatures, scraping should not be done in front of electric fans or in places with air drafts. When scraping, the sweat pores on the skin are open, and if exposed to wind and cold, pathogenic factors can directly invade through the open pores, which not only affects the effectiveness of scraping, but also may cause new diseases due to the influence of wind and cold.
