Gua Sha Research Paper

GUA SHA

---Possibility Of The New Method

What is Gua Sha?

Gua Sha is a type of traditional Chinese naturopathy. It is a unique non-medicinal external therapy that is based on the theory of meridians and acupoints. ‘Gua’, meaning to scrape, involves the use of a smooth instrument (usually ox horn) to rub a lubricated area of the surface body. This intentionally creates transitory therapeutic petechiae called ‘Sha’.

Gua Sha can determine one’s health condition. ‘Sha’ will only appear on someone who is ill; vis-à-vis if someone is in good health ‘Sha’ will not emerge after scraping. Acupuncturists thereby analyze the shape, color and location of the ‘Sha’ to determine the patient’s condition and lesion level.

What Is The Mechanism Of Gua

Patient A is a melanoma patient. At first nothing actually happened to the large melanoma on the patients stomach, but after a few sessions of Gua Sha, the melanoma starts to fall off. Dangerous diseases reveal when meridians are excessively clogged. As Gua Sha slowly dredges the meridians, diseases and illness leaves the body.

Patient B is a fifty two year old lady who is experiencing menopause for the third year. After seventeen sessions of treatment, her menstruation resumed. Menstruations are closely related to the liver, kidneys, the heart and the spleen. Once the relating meridians are smooth and clear, organs are stimulated back to work, which slows down the aging of women.

Patient C is a terminal metastatic prostate cancer patient who was already abandoned by modern medicine. When he came in, he was unable to walk or ingest any food or liquid. After the first session of Gua Sha and Fang Xie (bloodletting therapy), this patient felt less pain and is now capable of drinking a small amount of

Gua Sha is not a difficult skill to learn; almost everyone is capable of doing it, since there is no ‘wrongs’ in the process of Gua Sha, every performer eventually dredges few meridians. The extensive issue with Gua Sha is that only a small amount of performers are able to sense the knots that would eventually evolve into tumors from the meridians. By using high-tech X-rays, numerous people would be able to conduct the new Gua Sha skills our group discovered and researched, solving the greatest limitation in Gua Sha. People will have better possibilities to survive from dangerous diseases. Gua Sha is not magic, but it does have a magical effect. It is a therapy that takes time and work; it may not cure every terminal stage patients, yet it allows them to spend their last period of time living like a normal person instead of spending it on a hospital bed. Combining Western technologies and Ancient Eastern ones will definitely bring the modern medicine into an astonishing