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Jade Stone Gua Sha
“What is within must manifest without”—The essence of Danxi’s Heart Method points out that the facial skin is like a precise mirror, not only a facade of beauty but also a display screen of organ health. TCM’s holographic theory posits that the head and face gather the three Yang channels of the hands and feet, as well as the Ren and Du meridians, corresponding to the body’s five internal organs.
The classic TCM text, Huangdi Neijing, states in the Ling Shu: Pathogenic Qi and Disease Forms: “The twelve meridians and three hundred sixty-five collaterals all ascend to the face.” When internal issues such as deficiency, stagnation, or blockage arise, the face quickly signals with spots, bruises, wrinkles, dullness, redness, or yellowness, indicating an imbalance in the organs that requires adjustment. Only by properly regulating the internal state can the external appearance achieve fundamental improvement, vividly illustrating the TCM wisdom of “observing the external to infer the internal”.
The Scientific Code for High Beauty through Gua ShaFacial Gua Sha is guided by the holistic view and syndrome differentiation of TCM, emphasizing a gentle and soothing technique, with the skin slightly reddened as the ideal outcome, avoiding excessive bruising. Following meridians and acupoints, dividing areas for scraping, treating both root and branch, and harmonizing internal and external conditions, it has significant effects on beauty and treating facial skin disorders.
Detoxification and Beauty Jade stone Gua Sha can promote microcirculation in the face, accelerating the metabolism of toxins and waste within cells, helping to cleanse pores and enhance skin radiance. Regulating Qi and Blood Flow
By stimulating facial acupoints and meridians, it can improve local Qi and blood circulation, thereby enhancing overall facial vitality.
Relieving Local Fatigue
Gentle and moderate scraping can relax facial muscles, alleviating local tension caused by fatigue and stress.
Promoting Metabolism
The stimulating effect of Gua Sha on the skin layer can promote metabolism, helping to remove metabolic waste from the skin surface, making the skin appear clearer.
Delaying Skin Aging
Enhancing blood circulation and nutrient supply helps to reduce wrinkles, maintain skin hydration and elasticity, and to some extent delay the aging process of the skin.
Recommended Scope and Frequency
Jade stone Gua Sha is suitable for daily beauty care, alleviating dark circles and bags under the eyes, reducing wrinkles, moisturizing the skin, and delaying skin aging. Additionally, it can serve as an auxiliary treatment for certain facial skin issues such as acne, melasma, flat warts, and facial muscle spasms.
However, it is important to note that facial Gua Sha should be tailored to the individual, with a frequency of once a week being appropriate; excessive scraping may damage the skin’s stratum corneum.
Contraindications and Cautions
- Do not perform on the face during the acute phase of acne with obvious inflammation.
- Pregnant women and women during menstruation should use caution.
- Avoid scraping areas with implanted prosthetics.
- Individuals with excessively thin skin, open wounds, or large scars on the face should not undergo treatment.
- People with anemia should avoid facial Gua Sha, and those with severe cardiovascular, liver, kidney, hematopoietic system, or autoimmune diseases should not undergo treatment.
- Do not perform facial Gua Sha within 20 days after recent treatments such as exfoliation, injections, or laser therapy.
Precautions
• When in poor health or in a state of low immunity, facial Gua Sha should be postponed to avoid adverse reactions or worsening discomfort.
• It is recommended to drink an appropriate amount of warm water after Gua Sha to promote the expulsion of dampness from the body.
• Do not wash your face immediately after Gua Sha; it is advisable to wait half an hour before cleansing with warm water, avoiding cold water.
• Since Gua Sha can temporarily open facial pores, it is essential to keep warm, avoid direct cold wind, and prevent invasion of wind-cold; when going out, take sun protection measures to avoid secondary damage from UV rays.
Our TCM nursing clinic inherits the essence of traditional Chinese medicine, utilizing unique TCM nursing techniques to provide the public with “simple, convenient, effective, and affordable” nursing services. Through syndrome differentiation, multiple techniques are widely applied to treat conditions such as dizziness, headaches, cough, insomnia, stomach pain, constipation, obesity, shoulder, neck, waist, and leg pain, as well as sub-healthy populations with imbalanced constitutions.
Currently, we offer TCM nursing projects including Golden Fire Dragon Moxibustion, Thunder Fire Moxibustion, Medicinal Thread Moxibustion, Umbilical Moxibustion, Gourd Moxibustion, Balanced Cupping, Fire Dragon Cupping, Wrist and Ankle Needling, Hammer Needling, Auricular Therapy (auricular Gua Sha, ear seed therapy), and over 30 other techniques.
Nursing Team Introduction
Cai Guiyu
Head Nurse of Outpatient Department
Chief Nurse
Outstanding Nurse of Jiexi County
Specialist Nurse in TCM Rehabilitation
Social Positions: Executive Member of the TCM Rehabilitation Nursing Special Committee of the Guangdong Province TCM Health Association, Executive Member of the First TCM Nursing Professional Committee of the Jieyang TCM Association.
Graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Southern Medical University, with over ten years of nursing experience, possessing rich clinical nursing and TCM rehabilitation nursing experience, having studied at Shenzhen TCM Hospital, Guangdong Second TCM Hospital, and the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. Published one paper and participated in one research project.
Skilled in various Lingnan moxibustion methods, cupping, Gua Sha, and other TCM nursing techniques to alleviate shoulder, neck, and back pain, rheumatic pain, facial paralysis, headaches, dizziness, women’s cold uterus, dysmenorrhea, and chronic fatigue syndrome in sub-healthy populations.
Cai Zixuan
Head Nurse of Geriatrics
Chief Nurse
Specialist Nurse in TCM Nursing
With over ten years of nursing experience, has received honors such as “Most Beautiful Nurse” in Jiexi County, Advanced Individual in Dedication to Work, Model of Dedication to Work, Advanced Individual in Promoting TCM Nursing Techniques, and Advanced Worker in Creating a Quality Nursing Environment. Currently serves as a member of the Nursing Professional Committee of the Guangdong Province TCM Association, a member of the Eighth Emergency Nursing Professional Committee, and a member of the First TCM Nursing Professional Committee of the Jieyang TCM Association.
Familiar with critical care nursing, geriatric nursing,proficient in various TCM nursing techniques, using balanced cupping, umbilical moxibustion, Gua Sha, acupoint massage, herbal hot compresses, and auricular pressure therapy to treat insomnia, dizziness, headaches, and various wind-cold-damp pain, as well as gastrointestinal disorders.
Lin Canfen
Head Nurse of Acupuncture and Tuina Rehabilitation
Chief Nurse
Outstanding Nurse of the Guangdong TCM System
Graduated from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. From 2018 to 2023, participated in various training programs including the “Deepening Quality Nursing Training Course” by the Guangdong Nursing Association, the “Multidisciplinary Training Course for Pelvic Diseases” in Dalian, the “New Business and Technology Training Course” by the Guangdong TCM Association, the “Clinical Skills Training Course for Female Pelvic Floor Function Rehabilitation”, and the “Advanced Training Course for Warming and Promoting Gua Sha”, receiving completion certificates. Has received honors such as “Advanced Individual in TCM Nursing”, “Advanced Individual in Dedication to Work”, and “Outstanding Nurse of the Guangdong TCM System”.With over ten years of nursing experience, proficient in various TCM nursing techniques, using warming Gua Sha, acupoint sticking, meridian massage, indirect moxibustion, fire dragon moxibustion, and balanced cupping to treat neck, shoulder, waist, and leg pain, gastrointestinal dysfunction, insomnia, colds, and provide rehabilitation guidance for stroke patients.
Chen Yu
Head Nurse of Internal Medicine
Nurse, Specialist Nurse in Geriatrics
Outstanding Nurse of the Guangdong TCM System
With over ten years of nursing experience, has received honors such as “Outstanding Nurse of the Guangdong TCM System”, “Most Beautiful Nurse of Jiexi County”, “Advanced Individual in Dedication to Work”, “Model of Dedication to Work”, and “Advanced Individual in Promoting TCM Nursing Techniques”. Currently serves as a member of the Eighth Cardiovascular Nursing Professional Committee and the Second Pain Nursing Professional Committee. In 2023, participated in the Geriatric Specialist Nurse Training Course by the Guangdong Nursing Association, practicing at the Foshan TCM Hospital.
Skilled in auricular Gua Sha, gourd moxibustion, intradermal needling, herbal hot compresses, etc., as well as nursing for internal diseases and critical patient rescue nursing.
He Jiaxin
Head Nurse of General Surgery
Nurse, Stroke Specialist Nurse
Outstanding Nurse of the Guangdong TCM System
Member of the Guangdong Nursing Association, Second Committee Member of the Stroke Society of Guangdong, and Second Committee Member of the Jieyang Nursing Association’s Venous Therapy Professional Committee.
With over ten years of nursing experience, has received honors such as “Outstanding Nurse of the Guangdong TCM System”, “Outstanding Student of the Stroke Specialist Nurse Training Course”, and “Advanced Model of Dedication to Work” in Jiexi County. Has studied stroke nursing at the Guangdong TCM Hospital, familiar with full-course management of stroke, critical care nursing, and perioperative nursing; skilled in intradermal needling, auricular pressure therapy, warming Gua Sha, and moxibustion to treat constipation, gastrointestinal bloating, cervical spondylosis, dizziness, headaches, insomnia, and provide nursing during surgical procedures.
Zhang Caixin
Nurse
Department Officer of Nursing
Oncology Specialist Nurse in Integrative Medicine
With seven years of nursing experience, has received honors such as “Advanced Individual in Dedication to Work”, “Model of Dedication to Work”, and “Advanced Worker in Creating a Quality Nursing Environment”. In 2023, completed the “Integrative Oncology Specialist Nurse Training Course” by the Guangdong Nursing Association, possessing rich experience in TCM nursing and nursing management.
Skilled in facial holographic jade stone Gua Sha, fire dragon cupping, warming Gua Sha, balanced cupping, copper scraping, and indirect moxibustion, among other TCM nursing techniques.
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