Gua sha
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gua-sha-189-6426837
title:
Gua sha
text:
Gua sha, or kerokan, is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practice in which a tool is used to scrape people's skin in order to produce light petechiae. Practitioners believe that gua sha releases unhealthy bodily matter from blood stasis within sore, tired, stiff, or injured muscle areas to stimulate new oxygenated blood flow to the areas, thus promoting metabolic cell repair, regeneration, healing, and recovery. Gua sha is sometimes referred to as "scraping", "spooning" or "coining" by Engli
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Traditional Chinese medicine involving skin scraping
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua_sha
date created:
2004-01-06T03:53:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T09:24:07Z
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