018. TRIP TO SOUTH CALIFORNIA FOR MERIDIAN SCRAPING THERAPYMST, KWAL SA, 刮痧

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Meridian Scraping Therapy(MST: Kwal-Sa: 刮痧)

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Meridian Scraping Therapy(MST: Kwal-Sa: 刮痧) has not well known in Medical industies. Scraping is a treatment technique using tools which enables clinicians to efficiently locate and treat soft tissue tightness and injury. The scraping instruments help break up these adhesions and restore normal tissue mobility, just like any other form of soft tissue mobilization or deep tissue massage.

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Kwal-Sa(刮痧) is a traditional Chinese healing method in which a trained professional uses a smooth-edged tool to stroke your skin while they press on it. This motion raises small, red, rash-like dots that show under your skin called petechiae. People use gua sha to treat chronic pain all over their body.

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But it's a kind of Traditional Physical Therapy wide spreaded in China and Taiwan. So I want to introduce this new Therapy by summarizing the basic theories and practical manipulations. Conclusions: To analyse the meaning of the character Kwal-Sa, Kwal(刮) means scraping the skin by some tools and Sa(痧) means originally the red spots on skin of measles but in this therapy it's the red spot on skin after the treatment.

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Meridian Scraping Therapy is based on the meridiology and holism which are the basic theory of Oriental Medicine. The main effects of Meridian Scraping Therapy are draining of pathogenic factors, promoring the flow of ki and blood, tonify yang, balancing the harmony of intemal organs and enhancing the immuno-ability in body. Rhinoceros corpus is common matrial of MST-plate which is the tool of manipulation.

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And by this plate several manipulation is performed according to the symptom and the locations of pain. The merits of MST are that easily learned by practician, the effects of the treatment are very quickly manifest and no significant side-effects. And additionally this therapy performed not only for treat diseases but prevent it and preserve health.

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Studies show that muscle scraping was effective in lowering total body inflammation. In one animal-based study, an enzyme called heme oxygenase-15, a potent anti-inflammatory, was measured before and after muscle scraping.

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With Kwal-Sa(刮痧), a practitioner (an acupuncturist in many cases) will use a smooth-edged tool to gently scrape areas of your body where there is inflammation or stagnant qi to help improve circulation and promote healing. “Kwal-Sa(刮痧) is a very standard kind of treatment modality that most acupuncturists will use.

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This is why Scraping is a useful technique. it can quickly release blockages in your body. This is because it promotes body fluid circulation which helps to normalize cellular metabolic processes and release toxins from your deep cellular tissues. Scraping has two main functions, where it both nourishes and detoxifies.

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Scraping therapy sits at the extreme most painful side, alongside therapies like cupping. Also known as Graston, fascial scraping involves a therapist “massaging” your skin with bladelike objects that do what your foam roller can't, pressing the skin ultraclose to the fascia.

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