Acupuncture Gua Sha

Video Transcript

"Hi, in this segment, we're going to demonstrate Gua Sha. Gua Sha is also known as Scraping, and we use it for everything from back pain which we're going to demonstrate today and things like cold and flu. It's actually a traditional type of treatment that's a part of Chinese medicine that can be use anything by an acupuncture physician to mom or dad working on their kids, dealing with various types of pain or the wind invasion, what we call, colds and flu. So, once we got a little bit of lotion on there, some people use lotion, some don't, we go ahead and take the Gua Sha tool, it's made of everything from buffalo horn to a plastic to the sides of Japanese soup spoons or in this case, jade. And we proceed to manipulate the muscles and bring out redness and purple. By doing this, we can do both diagnosis. The darker redder areas, or the purpler areas are where the greatest amount of pain or stagnation is. And the places that don't become red as fast, are generally pretty good. And so you can see, we're starting to get some redness along this muscle line, then let's us know where we need to do some of the work, whether its using cupping afterwards, acupuncture or even some Tuina Massage. We can use any of these different techniques in order to bring out that stagnation. Seems like a lot of its up here near shoulder blades, or the upper part of his back, maybe where the worst of all of his stuff is coming from. So we can see that we got a little bit of redness, this usually goes away within a couple of days. So this is Gua Sha."