f. Skin scraping (刮痧 guāshā)

Skin scraping is one of the traditional Chinese nature therapies basing on TCM cortex theory. Adopting this treatment, people can scrape on the skin with ox horns, jades and some other specific objects which can help to expand blood capillary, increase the secretion of sweat glands, and boost blood circulation.

It gets effect instantly on hypertension, sunstroke, muscle ache, etc. This therapy is seen as a good way to relieve fatigue and increase immunity.

Recorded in the medical book “Shi Yi De Xiao Fang” written in 1337 by Wei Yilin, a medical scientist of Yuan Dynasty, skin scraping has developed to be a popular therapy turned out to be effective for about 400 diseases of internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology, andriatrics, paediatrics, dermatology, traumatology, ophthalmology, and so on.