The East gave to the western person a set of the useful things and procedures aimed at the development of contemplation on tranquility and internal balance.
And if all know about yoga, then the Chinese salutary massage about which we will talk in our article, for certain will become for you news.
What is and for what carry out massage of a guash
Massage with the unusual name guasha or gouache came to our beauty shops straight from the Chinese traditional medicine. In the name the procedure essence is put: gua in translation from Chinese is cross, and ша designates a negative. That is from you in literal sense will scrape off all that bad that collected, special scrapers participate in massage. The negative is meant as a certain set of painful factors of which the person gets rid in process.
Certainly that for the description of mechanisms of influence of the unusual procedure the Chinese use a set of surprising concepts about the movement of energy of a human body. Having lowered philosophy and having gone deep into medicine, we will find out that everything is extremely simple and clear.
During any disease in an organism disintegration products accumulate, at some point reaching critical concentration. Some processes in an organism begin to glitch, stagnation in the struck parts of a body is formed.
And so, scraper massage is directed to dispersing a human body, to restart it, to activate the antioxidants giving the chance to ourselves to cope with the illnesses.
Scrapers of the most various forms and materials flit on a face, a neck, the head, hands and legs, a back and a stomach, leaving behind multi-colored spots.
Important! Any massage demands professional ability, but the Chinese massage of a guash — especially. In hands of the unskilled master you can feel serious consequences, up to consciousness loss!
The type of these hemorrhages sometimes reaching blackness can frighten the beginner.
But, first, massage is not followed by pain, and secondly, in terms of the Chinese philosophy, it just and there is that release from ша. The true experts read these traces as the medical record, seeing degree of stagnation of blood and problem zones.
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Indications for a guash are:
- colds and bronchitis of various etiology (breath returns to normal, hypostasis falls down);
- osteochondrosis (blood circulation and circulation of a lymph is normalized, the muscular spasm is liquidated);
- nervous diseases (the dream is stabilized, the pacification comes);
- joint pain (hypostasis of fabrics falls down, the mobility is restored);
- cholecystitis (the spasm of a gall bladder is liquidated, pain and nausea leave);
- acne rash (toxins are removed).
It is a little history
Roots of a guash leave deep into centuries and there strongly grew into the fertile field of the Chinese philosophy. It is that exceptional case when the skill of the massage therapist is organically weaved with the theory according to which energy can how freely to circulate, and to stand.
Historians demonstrate that such way of improvement was widely known in the territory of China. Not only the nobility, but also commonalty used services of masters who practiced everywhere, in the cities and settlements. Truly, traditional medicine!
For the first time the guasha is mentioned about 550 BC in Gunjyan's comments on the chronicle Spring and Fall. Archeologists also found the jade stones processed in a special way in the form of scrapers which quite could serve as tools for massage.
By ancient tradition, the master had at himself a set of extracts of medicative herbs and natural oils which before massage he applied on the patient's body. Today, in addition, to you will light aromas, will turn on the music for meditation. Be not frightened if the massage therapist even falls into a trance — all this only a part of the surroundings designed to strengthen you in a thought that in this salon all precisely on feng shui.
Important! After massage put on warmly and avoid drafts. Do not bathe at least six hours after the procedure.
Types and scope
There are three types of this unique Chinese massage:
- Cosmetic (correction of any defects which are not a disease, but bringing esthetic discomfort).
- Preventive (the name speaks for itself, it is prevention of diseases and strengthening of immunity).
- Medical (treatment of diseases; here also diagnostics when on a body determine a problem zone and extent of defeat by traces by a disease enters).
Massage belongs to reflexotherapy as the body and a face is massaged not just, and there is an impact on the special reflex points which are responsible for any given body.
Actually, the master of a guash brings toxins out of your organism and makes active the self-healing mechanism.
For this reason the effect of the procedure remains for a long time as the trigger worked, and your immunity as on rails, rushes forward, to recovery.
Effect and advantage
Let's list the main effects from massage of a guash:
- To the people suffering from heavy attacks of migraine, massage especially will do good as expands vessels and removes a spasm.
- Massage of a guash at osteochondrosis disperses blood, stabilizes process of blood circulation and a metabolism, influencing locally the inflammation centers. Weakens a spasm in muscle tissue, takes off painful effects and hypostases, intensifies restoration process.
- The same plan influence happens also at joint pains. Limfoottok settles into shape, the blood system gets into gear more actively, the affected joint finds mobility.
- Patients with various colds can count on removal of short wind, reduction of cough, decrease in puffiness of mucous membranes (especially in bronchial tubes), improvement of ventilation of airways. All this thanks to impact of massage on the point which is a projection of lungs.
- Cholecystitis often is followed by nausea attacks, a pain syndrome. Guasha will save from these unpleasant symptoms, will adjust motility of a gall bladder, will remove a spasm.
- The wrong bearing leads to violation of blood circulation in bodies of a small pelvis, to diseases of a female urinogenital system. Scraper massage will adjust a blood-groove and the movement of a lymph, will smooth solderings, will remove inflammation.
- Facial massage will give a set of effects: both rejuvenation, and clarification from various rashes, and increase in elasticity of skin.
- It is also difficult to overestimate the general impact on an organism, the general health improves, pressure and a warm rhythm is normalized, muscles come to a tone, etc.
As we can see from this, not complete list, the advantage of massage of a guash is really huge. The main thing is to get to the good master.
Whether you know? In Ancient China only priests could be engaged in massage.
How to be prepared for the procedure
The indispensable condition entering preparation for the cleaning procedure is plentiful drink. Some days before massage and within a week later it is necessary to drink at least the put amount of water — 2 liters a day.
Getting rid of toxins, the organism is dehydrated. By itself, consumption of alcohol at least during this preparatory period is contraindicated.
Just before the procedure it is necessary to be supported, but not later than an hour prior to it. The real master knows that medical massage lasts no more than half an hour and will not begin to pickle you on a table longer.
It is fraught with deterioration in health as the immune system can not cope with loading. The master before massage by all means makes active to you all necessary meridians of Yin and yang, slightly tapping on them with fingers. Yang are responsible for hollow bodies and are located on outer sides of hands and legs, on a back. It is necessary to make active canals of a gall bladder and a pericardium.
Scrapers for massage
The tool for the medical procedure has the most various forms, the sizes, color and also is manufactured of a set of materials.
Visit the page of any online store where massage parlors accessories and also in specialized shops selling all necessary for a guash are on sale, and you will see scrapers in the form of small fishes, rectangular with dredging, in the form of a hairbrush, just rectangular, etc.
Make them of a jade stone, of rose quartz, of a buffalo horn, of a stone, of silver and even copper. The only general condition is the curved roundish edge with the acting parts or small cloves which also have curves. How to do massage of a guash to whom to do it and on what part of the body, the optimum form, the size and even thickness of a scraper is chosen. Thick it is considered more sparing, its application is recommended for patients with sensitive skin, for children.
Important! Upon purchase pay attention to edges that they were not sharp, did not cling.
The thick scraper is also shown to harmonious and thin, and here stout persons will knead average and thin.
The form has huge value. For example, small fishes or goose pads will be suitable for the person, mass the head a stone crest, and the body will more effectively take a scraper in the form of a shovel, a rectangle or a square.
Whether you know? Chinese believe that plates from a horn or an armor give harmony to the energy circulating in our organism. Therefore such scrapers are most popular in China after products from sacred nephrite.
The average size square tools are considered as suitable for any kind of a guash and especially will suit the beginning master.
Scheme and technology of performance
Massage of a guash is carried out by so many time how many it will be required that dark stains ceased to appear. Then ша is recognized expelled, and further the organism can cope. Usually, it is 5-10 sessions at an interval of three, and sometimes and five days (to give to skin time to be restored after the previous session).
There are technicians on whom clean a face or a body and if suddenly you decide to master massage of a guash in house conditions, then their knowledge is necessary for you.
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Body
The main equipment is performance of consecutive movements when plates move from the center in the direction and also from top to down. These actions are divided into three views:
- there is practically no bu-gu — pressing, only the smooth caressing movements;
- to pin-b — there is a pressing, hands move quicker;
- se-gua — movements strong, pressing sure, hands move even more actively.
The upper and lower extremities mass to fingers, back department and area of a stomach — from a life column towards a breast. At first we smear skin with special oil which and is called for massage of a guash.
We prepare by easy strokings a back for massage, opening meridians of internals and systems. We put a plate a corner and we begin to scrape from cervical department of a backbone down, along it, setting speed independently.
The intensity of influence depends on the fortress of the patient and can reach ten movements on each 5-10 cm of skin. Then to the left of a backbone (a space about 2 cm) we draw a line, we repeat on the right side.
The wide party, putting a scraper on an edge, we study space under shovels, moving from cervical department to armpits. The intensity is about 30 repetitions.
Then fingertips we plan space between edges and a corner of a scraper it is carried out on this line, moving from a backbone sideways. It is so necessary to work all intercostal space. Further, putting a scraper on an edge, we pass all back department. Finishing the procedure, we smear skin with cream which will calm her after so intensive influence.
When the hand is rather trained, and the operations procedure will strongly be remembered, you can try to act with two scrapers at once.
Whether you know? Regular massage of the head accelerates growth of hair. Unfortunately, against baldness its effect is not established.
Face and neck
For the person usually choose technology of performance of a bu-gu, here massage of a guash pursues the aims, generally decorative character and, considering tenderness of the processed place, influence has to be soft.
Scrapers undertake twice smaller, than for a body. Oil can be used, but there is no need for it.
Carry to the problems needing the salutary procedure wrinkles, muscular spasms, dim skin, various rashes and, of course, bad attacks of headaches. Following algorithm: we divide the person visually in two. We do till 8-10 the scraping movements from the center of a frontal lobe to temples from each party, we move parallel to eyebrows. We make the same from nose wings to a temple.
Further there are corners of a mouth and a chin, from them to temples on 20 movements. All this is made for both sides of a face. Then on 5 times it is carried out from lips on a chin to a neck and from a nose to lips.
We pass to a neck. We massage sure, but smooth movements. We begin from a chin and we conduct scrapers to clavicles of 20-30 times.
Then 10 times a backbone to chest vertebras and 15-20 times a neck (behind) from the line of growth of hair to shoulders.
Contraindications and restrictions
That the salutary procedure did not turn back still the worst condition of an organism, it is necessary to consider nuances. There are some contraindications to massage of a guash, and the list this rather big:
- allergic reactions to oils;
- hypersensibility of integuments;
- high pressure;
- the blood diseases connected with platelets;
- infectious skin ulcers;
- oncology;
- various injuries in a healing stage;
- dropsy;
- varicosity;
- sharp mental disorders;
- pronounced edematous syndrome;
- periods;
- pregnancy and lactation.
Useful tips and counters
- Houses you can use make-shifts as scrapers: copper coins, ceramic circles, lids from cans.
- Thanks to the fact that facial massage takes place on special meridians and is performed by a smooth scraper skin does not stretch.
- The Thai balms are used for massage of a guash, and brown is necessary for a warming up, and white — for cooling.
- That massage had the maximum effect which will last not one day, it is necessary to drink a lot of warm water to, and especially after Guash. It will help an active conclusion of toxins.
Mastering the new cosmetic or medical procedure, do not forget that only in hands of the skilled, professional master you receive the correct result. If you want to become a master, then it is not necessary at once to try to embrace all technology of massage. Begin with small, get the hand and develop grateful clients.