What are the taboos of scraping? The more scrapped the better.

Scraping is one of the commonly used methods in Chinese medicine. Many folk treatments are scraping. They think that only scraping and detoxification can make the body healthy, but scraping has many taboos and is not suitable for everyone. So what are the taboos?

Who is not suitable for scraping?

Scraping is a traditional folk therapy, which refers to scraping the relevant parts of the skin with specific instruments (such as jade and horns). ) achieve the purpose of dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Zhang Xi, a Chinese medicine doctor in the Department of Acupuncture and Physiotherapy, Nankai Hospital, Tianjin, introduced that scraping is widely used in various departments and systems, such as common colds, coughs, tracheitis, asthma and pneumonia in winter, and digestive system diseases such as nausea, hiccups, acid vomiting, constipation, diarrhea and abdominal pain. It can also effectively prevent and treat urinary system infection, urinary incontinence, cystitis, dizziness, insomnia, headache, hyperhidrosis, neurasthenia, depression, sciatica, hypertension and diabetes.

In addition, scraping is also effective for tenosynovitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, stiff neck, shoulder pain, sore throat, otolaryngology, acute rhinitis, tinnitus, aphonia, gynecological irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, menstrual headache, premenstrual tension syndrome, climacteric syndrome, postpartum hypogalactia, etc. However, although scraping is applicable to a wide range of diseases, it should be noted that scraping can enhance immune function. Generally speaking, it is more recommended for disease prevention and health care, and is not recommended as the only means to treat diseases.

It is not advisable to shave on an empty stomach.

Although scraping is suitable for a wide range of diseases, it is not suitable for everyone. For example, people with severe heart disease should use scraping with caution. Scraping is very dangerous for people with severe heart disease because it will not only make local skin congested, capillaries dilate and blood circulation accelerate, but also stimulate sympathetic reflex and increase the burden on the heart.

In addition, people suffering from hemorrhagic diseases (such as allergic purpura and leukemia), acute infectious diseases and infectious skin diseases should use scraping with caution. When scraping, avoid the affected area of new fracture and the scar that has just been operated.

Scraping should be forbidden for the elderly and infirm, pregnant women and menstruating women, and scraping on an empty stomach should be cautious. When these special circumstances exist, if you want to shave, you'd better go to a regular hospital and be operated by a doctor. If you choose to scrape at home, you must be operated by someone with relevant knowledge and experience, and pay attention to hygiene to prevent accidents or infections caused by skin ulceration.

The more boils, the better.

Zhang Xi reminded that some details in the scraping process also affect the scraping effect. Because scraping therapy must expose the skin, and when scraping, the pores of the skin open and drain, so we must pay attention to keep warm during operation to avoid catching cold, otherwise, once we encounter wind-cold pathogens, the pathogens can directly enter from the ventilated pores, which not only affects the scraping effect, but also easily leads to new diseases.

Some people think that the more scrapped the better, which is wrong. Because the number of heat rash is influenced by many factors, in general, there are more heat rash due to blood stasis, more heat rash due to excess syndrome and less heat rash due to deficiency syndrome and cold syndrome. People who take too much medicine, especially those who take hormone drugs, are not easy to get measles; Obese people and muscular people are not easy to suffer from dysentery; When the room temperature is low, the eruption is not obvious. Therefore, if we blindly pursue tuberculosis and use heavy tactics or extend the scraping time, it will only hurt our health in the end.

Have a rest and drink a glass of warm water after shaving. Because scraping makes the pores open and drain, it will consume some body fluids and physical strength. In order to avoid the invasion of pathogenic wind and cold, it is not advisable to take a bath immediately after scraping, and it is advisable to wait until the skin pores are closed and restored to their original state, usually about 3 hours after scraping. As for the frequency of scraping, it should be based on the feeling that the skin can bear, not too frequently, and it is not advisable to scrape again in the same place before the spot scraped in the previous scraping has subsided.

Through the introduction, we know what are the taboos of scraping. Scraping patients must pay attention to many taboos in the process of scraping. They can't take a bath or catch cold, otherwise the scraping effect will be greatly reduced.