Gua Sha Scraping Sha-Bruises: The Traditional Chinese Medical Treatment

Gua sha in Chinese methods to scrape fever away or interpreted more loosely, to rub away sickness by allowing the sickness to break out from the entire body as reddish-sandy-looking thing through the skin.

The key essence of Gua Sha is to scrape body parts and release blocked energy (Qi) and treatment ailments. It is an ancient medical treatment that has been around for over two thousand years. This scraping technique may not originate from China, but 200 BC Chinese scriptures describe a scraping solution from body to scrape ailments or disorders. Besides China, Gua Sha can be found widely in the Southeast Asia countries for example Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. This technique is known in Vietnam as "Cao Gio? while in Laos, it's known as "Khoud Lam?.