Scraping has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, dredging channels and collaterals, eliminating cold and dampness in the body, promoting blood circulation and discharging metabolites, and can play an auxiliary role in treating general pain, discomfort and cold hands and feet caused by pathogenic wind-cold and dampness in the body or qi stagnation and blood stasis.

Extended data:

Scraping is guided by the theory of meridians and acupoints in traditional Chinese medicine. By using special scraping instruments and corresponding techniques, dipping in a certain medium and scraping repeatedly on the body surface, red millet or dark red bleeding spots appear locally on the skin, thus achieving the effect of promoting blood circulation and penetrating tuberculosis.

Because it is simple, convenient, cheap and efficient, it is widely used in clinic and is suitable for medical treatment and family health care. It can also be used in combination with acupuncture, cupping, pricking collaterals and bloodletting, so as to strengthen the efficacy of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, and expelling evil spirits and toxins.

Precautions for scraping:

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

2. For people with skin ulcers or other skin diseases, scraping is not enjoyment at all, but a torment, and it will do more harm to the already fragile skin tissue, even cause infection and aggravate the condition.

3, for some people with blood diseases, or friends with heart and liver function problems, we should also avoid scraping, which is easy to cause more harm to the body.