Skin Scrapping Therapy is a kind of treatment that scraps patients’ skin in
order to treat disease through repeated scrapping by scrapping plate dipped with
scrapping oil. Well then, what is Skin Scrapping Therapy?
Mechanism of Skin Scrapping Therapy: based on channel theory of Traditional
Chinese Medicine, this treatment follows the principle of relieving the
secondary symptoms firstly in treating acute disease. It makes local skin turn
red and bloody through stimulating channels by strong methods. Thus it can play
its role in blooming spirit and waking faint, relieving toxins and eliminating
evils, dissipating heat and solving exterior syndromes, improving Qi circulation
and stopping pain as well as stringing spleen and stomach.
Scrapping Parts: many parts of body can be scrapped. Some common parts
include surrounding parts of the seventh cervical vertebra, both sides of throat
bone, bilateral arms and legs, both sides of backbone, rib space on front chest,
spleen and liver region and some other parts of body. After scrapping treatment,
purple or red blood points can appear.
Scrapping instrument: in the past, many things can be used to scrap. For
example, smooth copper coin, copper spoon handle or porcelain spoon, all of
which are both not clean and difficult to disinfect. Presently, professional
scrapping plate made by buffalo horn can be found in medicine shops.
Applicable disease: cold, fever, sunstroke, headache, gastrointestinal
disease, stiff neck, periarthritis of shoulder, lumbar muscle degeneration as
well as muscle convulsing and other diseases.
Process of scrapping: firstly, the part which is about to be scrapped should
be cleaned and scrapping plate should dip in scrapping oil. The whole process
should be in the same direction with suitable and well-proportioned
strength.
