(1) Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Scraping can regulate the contraction and relaxation of muscles, thus regulating the pressure between tissues and promoting blood circulation around scraping tissues. Increase tissue flow, thus playing the role of "promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis" and "removing blood stasis and promoting tissue regeneration"
(2) regulating yin and yang
Scraping can obviously regulate the balance of yin and yang in zang-fu organs. For example, for patients with excessive peristalsis, abdominal and back scraping can inhibit excessive peristalsis and return to normal. On the other hand, people with decreased intestinal peristalsis can promote their peristalsis to return to normal. This shows that scraping can improve and adjust the function of viscera and balance the yin and yang of viscera.
(3) Relaxing tendons and dredging collaterals
Muscle attachment points and injured soft tissues such as fascia, ligament and joint capsule can send out pain signals, and the related tissues are put on alert through the reflection of nerves. Muscle contraction, tension and spasm are the reflection of this alert state, and their purpose is to reduce physical activity and thus relieve pain, which is a natural protective response of the human body. At this time, if the treatment is not timely or thorough, the injured tissue may form different degrees of adhesion, fibrosis or scarring, so that harmful impulses are constantly emitted, which will aggravate pain, tenderness and muscle contraction tension, and then cause secondary pain foci in surrounding tissues, forming metabolic disorders, and further aggravating the pathological changes of "pain without access".
Clinical experience shows that whenever there is pain, muscles will be tense; Where there is muscle tension, there is bound to be pain. There is often a causal relationship between them. In the treatment of scraping, we can see that the pain focus is eliminated and the muscle tension is eliminated. If the tense muscles are relaxed, the symptoms of pain and oppression can also be obviously alleviated or disappeared, which is conducive to the repair of lesions.
Scraping is an effective method to eliminate pain, muscle tension and spasm. The main mechanisms are as follows:
First, strengthen local circulation and increase local tissue temperature;
Secondly, under the direct stimulation of scraping plates in various methods, the pain threshold of local tissues is increased;
Third, the relationship between nerves or spasmodic meridians and twelve skin parts: "If you want to know the skin parts, all meridians are natural." The division of the twelve-skin position is based on the distribution of the twelve meridians, that is, the twelve meridians has its own branch collaterals, which float on the body surface and have its own distribution area. Because there are twelve meridians, the skin area is also divided into twelve meridians, and the combination of six meridians of hand, foot and mouth is called six meridians skin area.
The branch of meridian is collateral, and skin can also be said to be the division of collateral. Therefore, Su Wen's Spleen Theory also said: "Anyone who has the twelve meridians has skin." The relationship between skin meridians is of great significance to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Su Wen Pi Bu Lun: "The skin is the part of the pulse, and the evil guests in the skin will open, and the evil guests in the collaterals will open. When the collaterals are full, they will be injected into the meridians, and when the meridians are full, they will stay in the house. " It is pointed out that pathogenic factors from the outside to the inside, with scraping board as a tool and various manipulations, can stretch the muscles groaning through skin and contracture of fu organs, thus relieving their tension, spasm and pain.
(4) Information adjustment
Every organ of human body has its specific biological information (natural frequency and bioelectricity of each organ, etc.). ). When the organ is diseased, the relevant biological information will change, and the change of organ biological information can affect the functional balance of the whole system and even the whole body.
Through various stimuli or various forms of energy transfer, it acts on specific parts of the body surface, producing certain biological information, and inputting it into relevant organs through the information transmission system to adjust abnormal biological information, thus playing a regulatory role in diseased organs. This is one of the foundations of scraping treatment and health care. Scraping, acupuncturing and inputting regulation information to stimulate Neiguan point can regulate coronary blood circulation, prolong left ventricular ejection time, enhance myocardial contractility and cardiac output of patients with angina pectoris, improve S-T segment and T wave of coronary heart disease electrocardiogram, and increase coronary blood flow and blood oxygen supply. Stimulating Zusanli point with scraping method, acupoint pressing method and pressing method, and inputting regulatory information, can have a benign regulatory effect on the functions of pituitary and adrenal medulla, improve immunity and regulate intestinal movement.
(5) Eliminate toxins
The scraping process (scraping makes the skin boil) can make local tissues highly congested, stimulate blood vessels and nerves to dilate blood vessels, increase blood flow and lymph, strengthen phagocytosis and processing power, accelerate the elimination of wastes and toxins in the body, nourish tissues and cells, thus purifying blood, increasing systemic resistance, alleviating illness and promoting rehabilitation.
(6) promoting qi and blood circulation
The transmission of qi and blood (through the meridian system) plays a nourishing and warming role in the human body. Scraping acts on the muscle surface, making the meridians unobstructed and qi and blood accessible, then the blood stasis will be dispersed, the blood stasis will be disintegrated and eliminated, the whole body will be smooth, and the local pain will be alleviated or disappeared.
Modern medicine believes that scraping can make local skin congested, capillaries dilated and blood circulation accelerated; In addition, the stimulation of scraping can regulate the relaxation and contraction function of blood vessels and the permeability of blood vessel walls through neuroendocrine, enhance local blood supply, and improve the process of scraping and abscess formation throughout the body. It is a phenomenon that blood vessels gradually expand until capillaries rupture, blood overflows, and blood stasis spots are formed locally on the skin. These blood clots (abscesses) will disintegrate quickly and produce autohemolysis.
Autohemolysis is a kind of delayed benign weak stimulation process, which can not only stimulate and regulate immune function, but also act on cerebral cortex through cardiac nerve, and continue to regulate the excitement and inhibition of brain and the balance of endocrine system.
Rash "rash" in traditional Chinese medicine is a name based on symptoms, which refers to a disease with obvious scars after scraping. One of its characteristics is that a series of scratches and countless tiny sand grains (bleeding spots) will appear on the skin soon after shaving, and it will last for a long time.
Dysentery and bloating. The so-called abdominal distension means dizziness, chest tightness, abdominal pain and body aches. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a doctor named Guo Zhijia in China who studied consumption. He once wrote the book "Exudation and Jade Balance", which is a monograph on consumption.
Tools and postures: The scraper is made of buffalo horn, rectangular with blunt edges. Take a prone position when scraping your back, and take a positive sitting position on your shoulders. Blue-purple bleeding spots will appear after scraping.
Indications: common cold, fever, heatstroke, headache, gastrointestinal diseases, stiff neck, scapulohumeral periarthritis, lumbar muscle strain, muscle spasm, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases.
Taboos for scrapping:
1. It is forbidden to scrape pregnant women's abdomen, lumbosacral region and female nipples.
2. Leukemia, platelets should be used with caution.
3 heart disease, heart failure, renal failure, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, severe edema, scraping is prohibited.
4. For varicose veins of lower limbs, the scraping direction should be from bottom to top, and the technique should be light.
5. This therapy is not suitable for skin ulceration, injury and inflammation at the scraping site, and it is also not suitable for scraping in the state of initial recovery from serious illness, serious illness, deficiency of qi and blood, satiety and hunger.
As a healthy and green physical therapy method, cupping can play an important role in many diseases. Details are as follows:
(1) Respiratory system: acute and chronic bronchitis, asthma, pulmonary edema, pneumonia and pleurisy.
(2) Digestive system: acute and chronic gastritis, gastric neuralgia, dyspepsia, hyperacidity, acute and chronic enteritis.
(3) circulatory system: hypertension, arrhythmia and insufficient blood supply to the heart.
(4) Exercise system: cervical joint pain, shoulder and shoulder pain, elbow pain; Lumbago, lumbago, hip pain, hip pain; Knee pain, ankle pain, heel pain.
(5) Nervous system: nerve headache, occipital neuralgia, intercostal neuralgia, sciatica, quadriplegia caused by rheumatic strain, cervical muscle spasm, gastrocnemius muscle spasm, facial nerve spasm and diaphragm spasm.
(6) Gynecology: dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, menorrhagia, leucorrhea and pelvic inflammatory disease.
(7) Surgical sores: furuncle, multiple folliculitis, lower limb ulcer and acute mastitis.
(8) Health care: Chinese medicine believes that cupping can dredge meridians, regulate qi and blood, and strengthen the body. Cupping is often used for health care and physical fitness: Shenshu, Guanyuan, Guanyuanyu and Taixi. By cupping the skin, pores, meridians and acupoints, Yingwei Stephy will be guided to unfold, which will encourage the meridians and qi and blood, nourish the organs and tissues of viscera, and warm the fur. At the same time, it can also tonify the viscera function, dredge the meridians, adjust the balance of yin and yang, tonify the viscera function, dredge the meridians, adjust the balance of yin and yang, and regulate qi and blood, thus achieving the purpose of fitness and treatment.
You can't take a bath for 24 hours after scraping. If you want to take a bath, choose a hot bath. Don't drink too much and eat spicy food.