Can pregnant women do shoulder and neck scraping?

If pregnant women feel shoulder discomfort during pregnancy, they cannot take plasters or medicines for treatment. So at this time, pregnant women can take cupping massage and acupuncture, but they must find some reliable Chinese medicine practitioners, because there are many that just hang the sign of Chinese medicine, and their medical skills are not good. So can pregnant women do shoulder and neck scraping?

Scraping is a method of health preservation in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It has good effects of regulating qi and blood circulation, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relaxing meridians and unblocking collaterals, expelling evil and detoxifying. Clinically, scraping has been widely used in internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, and pediatrics. It has certain effects in treating diseases and maintaining health. So, can women do shoulder and neck scraping during pregnancy? What should you pay attention to when scraping? Let's learn about it below.

Can I do shoulder and neck scraping during pregnancy?

Gua Sha is based on the twelve meridians and eight extraordinary meridians in traditional Chinese medicine and follows the principle of "treating the symptoms in an emergency". It uses manipulation techniques to strongly stimulate the meridians, causing the local skin to become red and congested, thereby playing the role of awakening the mind, rescuing fainting, detoxifying and eliminating evil, clearing away heat and relieving exterior symptoms, promoting qi and relieving pain, and strengthening the spleen and stomach. During pregnancy, you will often feel soreness and swelling in your shoulders and neck. This is because the muscles in the shoulders and neck are often in a state of tension and contraction. If they are not unblocked in time, you will feel soreness and swelling. However, scraping has a certain effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. If you scrape during pregnancy, it will easily lead to blood circulation problems, thereby causing miscarriage or premature birth. Therefore, even if you feel soreness and swelling in your shoulders and neck during pregnancy, you should not scrape your shoulders and neck for the sake of your own and your child's health.

What should you pay attention to when doing scraping?

1. For some healthy people, proper scraping is very beneficial to the body, but there are also some things to pay attention to. First of all, the air in the room where scraping is done must be kept fresh. The indoor air must be circulated, and do not blow wind. Pay attention to keeping warm. After scraping, it is best to drink 100 ml of warm boiled water, which is conducive to the excretion of toxins from the body.

2. Do not take a shower right after scraping. Do not sit in front of the air conditioner or fan in the summer. In the winter, you should keep warm to prevent the pores from expanding and absorbing cold air, which may cause a cold and damage your health. When women do scraping, they should not scrape the chest and nipples. Pregnant women are also prohibited from scraping. In addition, it is best not to do scraping when you are fasting, overly tired, have poor physical fitness or have hypoglycemia, because excessive scraping can cause exhaustion and affect your health.

In this fast-developing society, people's thinking and living standards have made great progress. Many people are keen on health care, and many people like beauty. These methods can improve their own immunity and resistance. Gua Sha also has certain benefits to the body, but everyone must understand the above introduction to some precautions about scraping. In addition, pregnant women are absolutely prohibited from doing scraping and massage.