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COVID-19 Pandemic and Traditional Chinese Medicines
Published in Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, Muhammad Riaz, Sagheer Ahmed, Marius Alexandru Moga, The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2023
Roheena Abdullah, Ayesha Toor, Hina Qaiser, Afshan Kaleem, Mehwish Iqtedar, Tehreema Iftikhar, Muhammad Riaz, Dou Deqiang
Scrapping is a folk treatment which uses smooth flat surfaced objects like ceramic spoons, coins, animal bones or shaped rocks to scrape the moist surfaced skin in order to release toxins from the body and remove any obstructions present in the qi. Scrapping is rather a painful process as the skin is scraped till red welts form on the treating area. Despite the painful procedure, Gua Sha is believed to use for blood stagnation elevation and muscle relaxation by increasing the blood flow. Scrapping technique is usually used to treat chronic pain and fevers [12,14].
Low Back Pain
Published in Benjamin Apichai, Chinese Medicine for Lower Body Pain, 2021
Gua Sha treatment: Apply the Gua Sha tool on the urinary bladder meridian on the lower back, the gall bladder meridian on the leg, and the urinary bladder meridian on the leg until the skin becomes red or shows spots, or even to the point of bruised skin for Qi and blood stagnation type sciatica.
Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Practices in Modern-Day China
Published in David R. Katerere, Wendy Applequist, Oluwaseyi M. Aboyade, Chamunorwa Togo, Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge for the Modern Era, 2019
In China, gua sha is widely available in national and public hospitals and in private massage shops, and is used to treat joint and muscle pain. Because of the reasonable price, many patients in China and other parts of Asia also use gua sha as a form of preventive medicine and a first line of defense against illness. Gua sha has been used to treat a wide range of both acute and chronic health conditions, including headache, fever, digestive disorders, asthma, and respiratory infections, as well as women’s health issues, insomnia, and general fatigue (Roizman, 2016).
Gua sha therapy in the management of musculoskeletal pathology: a narrative review
Published in Physical Therapy Reviews, 2022
Gua sha is a traditional East Asian treatment modality which functions as a form of manual therapy, sometimes rebranded as instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization. It has been proposed as a valuable alternative medicine technique for management of musculoskeletal pathology, predominantly through a proposed combination increase tissue perfusion and scar tissue breakdown. There is minimal strong evidence supporting the proposed physiological effects of the therapy, and very limited research suggesting its effectiveness as a treatment modality. The potential beneficial effects appear inferior to, or at best comparable to, more conventional and well-studied manual therapies such as deep tissue massage, and if gua sha is to be utilized it should be done in conjunction with these more thoroughly studied modalities.