There are many taboos for scraping. Although scraping is good for health and can help maintain body health, if the method is not correct, the effect may not be so good. What is the role of scraping? Many people may not be able to answer this question! What are the precautions for scraping? Let's take a look at the article to find out!
Taboos for scraping
Pregnancy and menstruation are not recommended for scraping. Although people may feel tired during these periods and want to scrape to regulate, in fact, scraping may harm health. Because scraping can promote blood circulation, excessive scraping may cause increased menstrual blood volume or even miscarriage.
Friends with some skin diseases should not scrape. This time should allow your skin to rest well, rather than stimulate it. When scraping, it is necessary to rub and exert force on the skin, which is acceptable for ordinary people, but it is intolerable for skin that has problems.
If elderly people are relatively old and want to scrape, they need to see if their physical condition is suitable. If there are no diseases, scraping is possible, but if there are some diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, or anemia, it may weaken the body and make scraping unsuitable.
People with bleeding tendencies, such as advanced diabetes, severe anemia, leukemia, aplastic anemia, and patients with decreased platelets, should not scrape because the subcutaneous bleeding caused by scraping is not easily absorbed in these patients.
Excessive hunger, excessive fatigue, and drunkenness should not receive heavy or large-area scraping, otherwise fainting may occur.
The areas such as eyes, lips, tongue, ear holes, nostrils, nipples, and belly buttons should not be scraped, because scraping will cause congestion in these mucous membrane areas, and they cannot recover.
Roles 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. If the balance of yin and yang is disrupted due to emotional changes, external factors, or injuries, it can lead to pathological changes such as yin dominating yang or yang dominating yin, resulting in clinical symptoms such as excessive heat if yang dominates or excessive cold if yin dominates. The key to scraping health lies in adjusting the excessive dominance or deficiency of yin and yang according to the nature of the symptoms, so as to restore the normal physiological functions of the body and achieve the goal of curing diseases.
2. Activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Once the muscles, ligaments, and bones of the human body are injured, local congestion occurs, which hinders the circulation of meridians and blood. If the blood stasis is not eliminated, the pain will not stop. At this time, scraping or rubbing on the local or corresponding acupoints can eliminate the blood stasis, generate new blood, promote the circulation of meridians and blood, and achieve the goal of no pain when the meridians are unblocked. This is the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis by scraping.
3. Clearing heat and reducing swelling
Based on the principle of treating diseases caused by heat in traditional Chinese medicine, through the stimulation of scraping techniques, the heat evil is expelled to achieve the goal of clearing heat, allowing the internal yang heat evil to penetrate the surface of the body and eventually be discharged from the body, clearing the internal heat, stasis, and swelling.
