Scraping is one of the traditional natural therapies. According to the skin theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it is scraped with instruments (horn, jade and cupping) at the relevant parts of the skin to achieve the purpose of dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. In the Ming Dynasty, the book "Abundance and Yuheng" written by Guo Zhijia completely recorded 100 various types of tuberculosis.

Scraping can dilate capillaries, increase sweat gland secretion, promote blood circulation, and have immediate effect on wind-cold arthralgia caused by hypertension, heatstroke and muscle soreness. Regular scraping can regulate menstruation, relieve fatigue and increase immune function. In addition, the movie "Scraping" of the same name.

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Scraping is based on the twelve meridians's theory and the principle of "treating symptoms and relieving emergency", which strongly stimulates meridians and makes local skin red and congested, so as to achieve the effects of waking up, detoxicating and eliminating pathogenic factors, clearing away heat and relieving exterior syndrome, promoting qi circulation and relieving pain, strengthening spleen and regulating stomach.

The effects of scraping on skin can be divided into two categories, one is preventive health care and the other is treatment.

I. Preventive and health functions

The preventive and health care functions of scraping therapy include health care prevention and disease prevention. The function of scraping therapy is the skin on the body surface. Skin is the most superficial part of the human body exposed to the outside world, which is in direct contact with the outside world and plays an adaptive and defensive role in the change of the external climate. The skin has these functions, mainly relying on the function of defending qi in the body.

Stephy originates from the upper energizer and is driven by lung qi. It circulates in the skin at first, and Stephy is harmonious, so the skin is soft and dense (Soul Pivot is hidden in this place). Regular scraping by healthy people (for example, taking Beishu point and Zusanli point) can enhance the defense of qi. Strong defensive qi protects the exterior, and external evils are not easy to invade the exterior, so that the body can be healthy. If exogenous pathogens invade the exterior and interior, it will cause exterior and interior symptoms such as aversion to cold, fever, stuffy nose, runny nose, etc. Scraping in time (such as taking Shu Fei and Zhongfu) can eliminate exterior and interior pathogens in time and prevent them from being introduced into the five internal organs, which will lead to aggravation of the disease.

Second, the therapeutic effect

The therapeutic effect of scrapping therapy can be shown in the following aspects:

(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.

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Baidu encyclopedia-scrapping therapy