What is Gua sha and Why Should You Use it?

Gua sha is a natural, complementary therapy that involves using a massage tool to scrape your skin in order to increase circulation. This traditional Chinese treatment method may provide a novel strategy for achieving greater health by treating problems like chronic pain.

Gua sha is meant to treat the body's chi, or stagnated energy, which practitioners say may be the cause of inflammation. Several disorders connected to persistent pain are rooted in inflammation. It is believed that rubbing the skin's surface might assist break up this energy, lessen inflammation, and accelerate healing.

• Using a gua sha instrument to glide over your face or body can encourage microcirculation, or blood flow in small blood vessels, in your soft tissues. This improvement in blood flow may help with the physical signs of inflammation including edema and puffiness. Another advantage of massage in general is that the practice may aid lymphatic drainage by pushing fluid away from swollen areas.
  
  
• After a gua sha session, skin seems tighter and fine wrinkles become less obvious, which *may* be related to improved circulation.
  
  
• To relieve tension from your front neck, move the guasha from your upper chest to the lower-jawline region. To relieve the area near the collarbones, sweep from inward to outward. It will also help tone those bones.
  
  
• Stretch the skin near your eye region by pushing a finger against your nose. Now move the guasha from the inner region towards the outer. Doing this will relieve puffiness, and fatigue, smoothen out wrinkles, and get rid of eye bags.
  
  
• The dent in the middle of the guasha fits perfectly on your jawline. In an upward motion, sweep the guasha to ease fatigue, tension, and any inflammation near that region. Doing this will also give your face a natural face-lift.

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