Do you have to use essential oils for gua sha?

Personally, the essential oil of gua sha is to lubricate **, reduce resistance, reduce friction, when I was a child, the tea oil that my family gave me, now I scrape at home, the six-thousand-year-old camellia oil, with tea oil gua sha is the most commonly used method in the folk, drop 5 10 drops of tea oil at the scraping place, and scrape back and forth with a spoon until **redness. It doesn't have to be essential oils, many of today's essential oils have flavors.

Yes, if you only use a gua sha board to scrape, your ** will soon become red, and it may cause ** chafing.

Essential oils can be used for gua sha.

Steps of Gua Sha:

1. Head health gua sha.

The head generally has Baihui acupoint, temple, Fengchi acupoint and Sicong acupoint, according to the order of acupuncture points, you can first scrape Baihui acupoint and Sicong acupoint, and then move to Fengchi acupoint, this acupoint can be scraped several times, and finally press the temple. Head gua sha can promote blood circulation in the head, so that the mind can stay clear and able to think better.

2. Neck and shoulder scraping.

The neck is also a place where diseases are susceptible, such as frozen shoulder, neck stiffness, etc., which can be started from the shoulder well point, then to the Fengfu point, and finally scraped several times in the large vertebral point. If you insist on neck and shoulder scraping for a long time, you can make the blood flow in this part smooth, eradicate the body's metabolites, enhance immunity, and strengthen the body.

3. Limb health care scraping.

Gua sha for the limbs is also very useful, because some joints of the limbs are more likely to develop arthritis, so it is important to prevent it in advance. Circulate in the direction of the muscles and veins of the limbs. Scraping the limbs can open up the meridians, promote blood circulation in the limbs, and remove toxins from the body.

4. There are some precautions when scraping, scraping or cupping must not be in a windy place, and you must wear clothes immediately after hanging the sha, and you can't let yourself catch a cold, otherwise it will aggravate the cold. After scraping, drink more boiled water, rest more, and do not take a bath immediately to prevent wind and cold from entering the body, causing dizziness, brain swelling, and weakness of limbs.

5. You can also scrape at home, buy tools for scraping, combs, and scrape on your head several times a day, which can promote the smooth flow of blood in the head and have a health care effect, but don't use a lot of force, otherwise you will scratch the scalp.

Gua sha is the use of fingers or a variety of tools with smooth edges, dipped in a gua sha medium with a certain effect, on the surface of the human body in specific parts of the repeated scraping, squeezing, pinching, patting, picking and other techniques, so that the surface of the surface of petechiae, ecchymosis or punctate bleeding, that is, the so-called "out of the sha", so as to achieve the purpose of disease prevention and a method.

Gua sha precautions.

1. Pay attention to keeping warm: in winter, you should avoid cold and tuyere, and in summer, you should avoid fans, and you should not directly blow and wipe parts.

2. Gua sha sequence: The general principle is to scrape the head and neck, back and waist first, then the chest and abdomen, and finally the limbs and joints. Each part is generally scraped first with the yang meridian and then the yin meridian; Scrape the left side of the body first, then the right side of the body.

3. Gua sha direction: do not scrape back and forth, in principle, it should be from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside. The face is scraped from the inside out, the head is from the top of the head to the periphery, the neck is from top to bottom, the back and waist are from top to bottom and from the inside out, the chest is from the inside out, the abdomen is from the top to the bottom, and the limbs are from the top to the bottom.

After scraping one place, scrape another, not in order.

4. Scraping time: Scraping with laxative method or flat flat laxative method should be limited to time The scraping time of each part is 3 5 minutes; The time to scrape each part with a refill scraping technique is 5 to 10 minutes. Usually a patient, should choose 3 or 5 parts for scraping, for patients who do not have sha or less sha, in order to ** sha spots, purple spots can be, can not force sha.