The characters for “gua sha” provide insight into the practice - Deepstash

The characters for “gua sha” provide insight into the practice

“The Chinese character for ‘Gua’ (刮) is composed of the character for ‘tongue’ on the left and ’knife’ on the right. The Chinese character for ‘Sha’ (痧) is composed of ’illness’ or ’disease’ on top and ’sand’ on the bottom,” explained Sonia Lee, DACM, LAc.

Elaine Huntzinger, a Canada-born accupunturist w/ roots in HongKong, Nv in her atelier in Paris looks at patients' tongues to check for other system imbalances; and gives food recommendations to rebalance the qi—energy flow—which also contributes to a radiant complexion.

11

20 reads

CURATED FROM

IDEAS CURATED BY

samsalt

Jack of all people-related trades, master of none. Majored in Psychology, Customer Service Assoc for a few Years, HR Officer for 4, Manager and ESL Teacher for over 11 yrs now, an artist since birth.

I feel that this is one of the most effective, affordable and easy forms of at-home self care

The idea is part of this collection:

How to Feel Better About Yourself

Learn more about health with this collection

How to practice self-compassion

How to identify and challenge negative self-talk

How to build self-confidence

Related collections

Similar ideas to The characters for “gua sha” provide insight into the practice

Benefits of GuaSha explained

1. PROMOTE BLOOD CIRCULATION

“From a Chinese medicine perspective, the Tai Yin meridians (composed of the lung and spleen) and Yang Ming meridians (large intestines and the stomach) are responsible for your skin's overall health,” said Lee. “When you gently scrape the skin on your face with...

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Personalized microlearning

100+ Learning Journeys

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates