TCM is a ancient medicine which have thousands of years history. It was created based on the ancient people's ways of understanding the world. Some of the opinion sound strange for the modern people. But is really uncovered lots of the nature which is still important and meaningful today. So it is still valuable to learn, esp. to the individuals who have the health problems.
Since it is old, so it offer more natural therapy which we can used to improve our health from a natural way. In general, TCM can help us to healing illness or diseases by improve our body natural ability. It is quiet a different way but is very helpful to our health. One thing I need to emphasize here is that TCM is not the spam, it is really helpful to our health, esp. on the healing of the chronic disease. I can enable us manage our health and improve our condition by ourselves. It can be used as the assistant of the normal treatment for many disease.
TCM can only be recognized after people tried and got the benefits from it. For some of the chronic disease, TCM is not only the assistant. TCM can be one of the choice of which can help the patient release from the disease. This is because that it can address to the route cause of the disease and can give you the effective way to improve your condition by remove the causes.
TCM Gua Sha.
About Chinese, you will know acupuncture and Qi-Gong for they are more famous and had been recognized by western world. Acupuncture is one of the drug-free therapy of TCM, and Qi-Gong is a series of methods which let people to exercise Qi(the "energy" of life). Even acupuncture, been accepted by western world take a long period of time. About the detail, you can check out here. It is understandable that every "new" things accepted by other group of peoples need a long term of period. With the help of the internet, this term can be exactly shorten.
Gua Sha is another drug-free therapy of TCM. Gua Sha is based on the same theory as acupuncture. The difference is instead of using needles to stimulate the accurate acupoints, Gua Sha therapy can yield the same result by scraping the proper area on your skin with simple Gua Sha tools. Gua Sha stimulates the immune system, detoxifies and de-acidifies, promotes the circulation, regulates functions and organs, removes blockades and pain, revitalizes and regenerates ("life-extension"), diminishes stress, fatigue and burn-out, improves and cures countless chronic disorders and complaints, rebalances emotions, relaxes and promotes clarity of mind...everything through ONE simple treatment. This is real, not the exaggeration. It had been widely proved by lots of Chinese people around the world. Now it is the time for western world to get to know about it.
Why we need Gua Sha?
Somebody will have the question that:"Since we already have the acupuncture, why we still need to know Gua Sha?" The answer is:" Gua Sha is more EASY!"
Gua Sha and acupuncture follow the same theory, but Gua Sha is more easy. For acupuncture need the professional practitioner who know the very accurate position of the acupoints to practice. Even in China, to find out a good practitioner is not easy. It need you pay money and time. But Gua Sha do not need you know so much. You only need to know to treat your disease, where is the proper areas. For it is using the board to scrap the skin, it is more easy then plug a needle into human's body.
For the difficult of find out the good practitioner, usually Gua Sha can offer more effective result then acupuncture.
Gua Sha tools only include a board, used for scrap the skin, and Gua Sha oil, used for lubricate the skin. It is very cost less and very easy to get.
Gua Sha technique are very easy to learn. What you need to do is just scraping, with the proper direction and proper stress and speed.
For Gua Sha is so simple and easy to practice, it is very very fit to patients to do self treatment at home. For patients of chronic diseases, it is a very good choice to give him/her self a continually treatment. To cure chronic disease, the continually treatment and condition improvement is necessary.
What can be expected from Gua Sha?
Gua Sha can be used for acute and chronic disease. But for the basic theory of TCM, we suggest to use the therapies of TCM on the chronic disease. TCM treat disease usually not direct at the symptoms, but always address to the route cause. It healing disease by change the underlying condition. So maybe you will feel the effect comes slow. And some of the diseases need to relief the symptoms soon. For example, asthma. When in asthma attack, some serious patient will facing to the dangerous of can not breathing. It is obviously that open the airways as soon as possible is necessary. In this case, you should you the steroid but not Gua Sha. But after this period, Gua Sha can effectively prevent the attack come again. So the conclusion here, TCM and the modern medicine should be combined on treating some diseases. Except the emergency case, Gua Sha is more fit to the treat of chronic disease. For asthma, just after the first time of treatment, the patient can feel the comfort and pleasant which he/she never felt before. This kind of relief can also been expected by the patients of bronchitis, frozen shoulder, and migraine headache, and even the heartburn patients.
For chronic disease treatment, Gua Sha should be applied to both in attack and between attack. What Gua Sha can offered is not only the relief, in can give the very positive effect on change your condition. So continue apply this therapy, you can eventually cure the disease.
Use Gua Sha Now.
In China, Gua Sha is used very widely. It had become one of the health care skill by people. People usually use it to relief pain and keep good health. It is really effective and affordable.
Since there are lots of people around the world been suffered by chronic disease, I hope the Gua Sha therapy can be widely known and used by the people who do not know it currently.
Maybe you still have the doubt to Gua Sha now. That is not the problem. Just try one time. You must can know if I'm right or wrong. The most simple way to try it is just find a tools with a round edge(maybe the back of comb is ok), use some oil lubricate the skin of pain area, and scrap there. You will see the Sha Mark (red spot) come out and feel relief just after the Sha Mark do gone out at all. You must be able to feel it is effective.
This is the most simple way to prove if it work for you. For Gua Sha treatment, there are specific scraping areas for specific diagnosis of disease. You need the specific guidance to treat a specific disease.
A drug free therapy is needed in chronic disease treatment.
It is known to all that almost all drugs has side effect. At this point, there are no difference between the Modern Medicine and TCM. TCM doctor usually say :"是药三分毒" means all Chinese herbs have the side effect. In some case, we have to use drugs, but some others are not. For some chronic disease, use medicine for long time will get seriously harm to health. For example for diabetes. We know that diabetic need to use drugs to control the blood sugar level. Some of the drugs have the side effect which harm to liver and kidneys. From the TCM perspective, the diabetes most likely caused by the weakness of kidneys. That is to say the drugs caused the conflict between control symptoms and improve the condition. Maybe that is one of the reason why the type II diabetic finally need to use the injection of insulin.
To chronic disease, which means long term, even life long disease, will need lots of drugs, the side effect of drugs must be the big concern. So a drug-free therapy is really valuable to try.
Some disease can be cured by the therapy combined TCM and modern medicine.
Here I also use the diabetes as the example. In china, there are lots of success story about cure diabetes by using the combination of Chinese and Western Medicine. Some of the is not delivered by the hospital, just by the diabetics themselves. Here I mentioned one to describe it. The same, treat diabetes need two parts, treat with the symptoms (control the blood sugar level) and improve the condition. In control the blood sugar level, obviously the western medicine have the more better effect. This person use the Taiji (exercise Qi) to improve his condition. He cured his diabetes six month later.
From this example, we can get three points:
- Diabetes can be cured by effectively change the condition.
- Self treatment is important for chronic disease treatment.
- The combination of Chinese and Western Medicine is more powerful.
TCM is old, but this not means it is wrong. It give us the other way to know about our disease and to treat it. Since we can not get good treatment from the medicine, why not try it?
TCM had the history of thousands of years. What made it live so long?
What is the reason that TCM do not fit to me?
What will you lost by just try it?
Why do not give yourself a chance to find out a way to treat effective with your chronic disease?
