What are the advantages and disadvantages of breast scraping?

Scraping is a very popular method of health preservation and detoxification in recent years. Nowadays, more and more people pay more attention to their physical condition. In fact, women's breasts can also be scraped. Scraping women's breasts can not only help women detoxify, but also promote the dredging of breast meridians, which is very beneficial for preventing breast diseases. The following is a detailed introduction to the advantages and disadvantages of breast scraping.

Can I have my chest scraped?

Gua Sha can treat many diseases and has various effects such as promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. However, because different parts of the body are scraped, the required skills are also different. In daily life, many of us are accustomed to only scraping the back. Doing so for a long time will cause an imbalance of yin and yang in the human body. Therefore, while replenishing yang, we should also scrape the chest and abdomen to replenish yin. Here are some chest scraping techniques:

The operating order of chest scraping is to scrape the Ren meridian (i.e. the middle) first, and then scrape to the lowest end of the sternum, using the single-foot scraping method; then avoid the nipples and scrape the left and right sides horizontally.

When scraping the chest, the contact angle between the scraper and the body surface should be small, and the force will be relatively smaller. The appropriate angle is 45°, and the force should be light. The patient lies in supine position, and the sha practitioner stands on the left and right sides of the patient and starts applying sha.

(1) The practitioner applies a small amount of the medium on the surface of the patient's sternum. Holding the scraping board in the right hand, scrape the surface of the sternum from top to bottom where the Ren meridian runs. When scraping to the Tanzhong point, you can scrape a few more times to help replenish qi. Stop at the Shangwan point and stop when local sha appears.

(2) Use the corner of the scraper to gently massage the Tiantu point (When massaging the Tiantu point, use light force, as the trachea is located deep inside this point. Using too much force may cause choking or even suffocation).

(3) With the patient's sternum as the midline, the practitioner uses a scraper to scrape horizontally along the ribs to the left and right sides. The entire scraping board should be close to the ribs, with a small angle. When passing over the nipple (not suitable for treatment of breastfeeding women), it should go around until the local skin turns slightly red.

Note: When scraping the chest, the angle between the scraper and the body surface should not be too large. The larger the angle, the greater the force. The chest is where the heart and lungs are located. Exerting too much force will affect and damage the heart and lung functions. It is not suitable for patients with severe heart and lung diseases.

Scraping the chest can not only improve women's breast hyperplasia, poor blood circulation in the chest and other conditions, but also has a good effect on the treatment, health care and prevention of the heart, lungs, liver, gallbladder, spleen and stomach.

The advantages and disadvantages of scraping

Benefits of Gua Sha:

Scraping is one of the methods of health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine. In our daily life, many people use scraping to eliminate evil spirits, dispel wind and cold, enhance immunity, etc. It is a very good health preservation method. Experts point out that scraping achieves health-preserving effects through benign stimulation of the body surface, and its benefits are very obvious. The common benefits of scraping are:

1. Scraping your hands and feet can help promote the flow of qi and unblock the meridians. Women often experience cold hands and feet. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this is mainly related to insufficient yang in the body or poor circulation of qi and blood. You can first scrape your palms with the surface of the scraping board. After your palms become warm, use the grooves on the scraping board to scrape all sides of your fingers, from the base to the fingertips, scraping 5 to 10 times in each direction. This can effectively promote qi and unblock the meridians.

2. Scraping the abdomen can help with bowel movements. Long-term constipation not only affects the digestion and absorption function, but also causes the body to absorb a large amount of toxins. The patient can use the scraping board to scrape the abdomen from top to bottom and from left to right. It should be noted that if there is sagging of internal organs, it should be scraped from bottom to top.

3. Scraping the area around the eyes can improve eyesight. Many people do eye exercises and are very familiar with several of the acupoints. Using scraping instead of finger massage can better stimulate the acupoints. You should first use a scraping comb to press the Jingming point (on both sides of the nose bridge, about half a centimeter away from the inner corner of the eye), and then use the Jingming point as the starting point and the outer corner of the eye as the end point, and scrape from the upper and lower eye sockets respectively. This can effectively improve the circulation of qi and blood in the meridians around the eyes and relieve visual fatigue.

4. Scraping the neck can relax muscles and promote blood circulation. Neck and shoulder discomfort is an occupational disease for desk workers. Gua Sha can relax muscles and promote blood circulation, and improve local blood stasis. Patients should choose three routes, namely, from the midpoint of the posterior hairline to the Dazhui point (the depression below the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra), and from the upper edges of the two outer corners of the posterior hairline to the left and right shoulders respectively. In addition, scraping this area when you have a cold can also help dispel wind and evil.

Disadvantages of scraping:

1. Long-term scraping without restraint will cause damage to the skin tissue. It will not only fail to help relieve fatigue, but will also increase the burden on the body.

2. For people with skin ulcers or other skin diseases, scraping is not a pleasure at all, but a torture. It will cause greater damage to the already fragile skin tissue and even cause infection, aggravating the condition.

3. For people with blood diseases, or friends with heart or liver problems, scraping should be avoided as much as possible, as it can easily cause greater harm to the body.