The weight loss method of traditional Chinese medicine has no harm to health, and it can also play an important role in maintaining the body. Scraping ( also called Gua Sha ) is one of the ways to lose weight in traditional Chinese medicine. Everyone should know that scraping can help people’s health, but many people will doubt whether scraping can make people lose weight. In fact, scraping really has the effect of losing weight.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, the main cause of obesity is the transport function of the spleen and stomach, resulting in local accumulation of nutrients, leading to local obesity, or systemic obesity due to water-damp metabolism. Scraping can open up the spleen and stomach meridians and collaterals, restore the transport function of the spleen and stomach to normal, excess nutrition and water dampness can be metabolized, and people will naturally lose weight. So how can we barely lose weight?
The method of gua sha and losing weight.
Want to lose weight by scraping, which acupoints are the key points? Large intestine meridian, stomach meridian, gallbladder meridian, bladder meridian.
1 the obesity of the lower abdomen and the outside of the arm mainly scrapes the first line of the large intestine, including the outside of the index finger, Hegu acupoint, Quchi acupoint, shoulder, neck, cheek and nasal alar of neck acupoint.
2. Accumulative obesity needs to enhance the transport ability of spleen and stomach, mainly by scraping stomach meridians, including lateral index finger of foot, instep, foreleg, abdomen, chest, neck, cheek and head.
3 Obesity on the outside of the thigh is due to the accumulation of a large amount of toxins in the gallbladder, which requires scraping the gallbladder line, including the outside of the little finger of the foot, the outside of the leg, the side of the body, the shoulder, the side of the head, and the scorpion.
4Edema and obesity need to scrape the bladder meridian line, including the lateral little finger of the foot, the lateral side of the foot, the back of the leg, the hip, the two fingers next to the spine of the back, the back of the neck and the back of the head. In addition, acupoints such as Zhangmen and Yinlingquan also have weight loss effect.
Scrape part from top to bottom for 3-5 minutes or 10-15 times. Strength is not important, but technology should be heavy, accurate and stable. In particular, the meridians are hidden deeply, and it is appropriate for the scraping board to tilt downward from 45 degrees to 60 degrees. At the thigh, the scraping plate should be at an obtuse angle with the thigh. After the sputum is excreted, scrape it after the sputum has subsided.
Correct use of scraping can achieve the effect of weight loss, but it should be noted that if your obesity belongs to secondary obesity, the effect of scraping will be greatly reduced. Because secondary obesity is mainly caused by neurological, endocrine and metabolic diseases, or by genetic and drug factors of obesity, it needs treatment to lose weight.