When it comes to choosing a gua sha tool, we will always struggle because we don’t know what kind of gua sha tool to choose.

There are many common gua sha tools such as bull horns, jade, copper coins, etc. But in fact, there has been no exact statement in the Chinese medicine community about what kind of tools should be used for gua sha.

Gua sha is often treated with common tools, and each person’s preferences are different.

But which tool is best? 

In fact, some people have studied this for a long time and have come to a definite conclusion. Listen to me slowly.

After the Eastern Han Dynasty, although the non-drug therapies of Chinese medicine continued to develop, the content was mainly acupuncture and moxibustion, and many important works were acupuncture works, which were not only excluded from the book, but also not discussed in the techniques.

What is the reason for the loss of the art of stumbling?

The Eastern Han Dynasty scholar Fu Qian said: “Ji Shifu has no good stone, so he uses iron to replace the ear.” ”

Yan Shigu, a scholar of the Tang Dynasty, said: “The ancients attacked the disease, but now their skills are unique.” ”

In 1888, Zhang Zhenjun, a famous doctor of the Qing Dynasty, published a massage monograph “The Essentials of Massage Rectification”, in which he talked about the method: “This method still existed in the Han Dynasty, but it was abolished in later generations, and they did not know its stone. It reflects the general understanding of Chinese medicine on stones in the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the head Taoist people made it clear at the beginning of the “Tou Jing”: “The head technique has been lost for a long time, and the stone cures the disease, non-acupuncture and non-moxibustion. It shows that the head method is not acupuncture and moxibustion, and corrects the misunderstanding of later generations about the head method.

Modern scholars generally believe that the tools used in gua sha originated from stones. The evolution of the stone has become obscure with the decline of the stone method.

According to the literature, the tools of gua sha in the Ming and Qing dynasties were relatively diversified. Such as stones, bamboo leaves, hemp rope, ramie, or copper coins, or porcelain bowls, spoons, etc.; After the Ming and Qing dynasties, copper coins and buffalo horns were mostly used.

Modern gua sha tools mostly use buffalo horn, jade, and stone scraping boards.

For more than 40 years, Li Laoquan has found that the brass scraping board has the best effect after using various materials of gua sha boards.

In order to facilitate clinical application, Li Lao was inspired by the Big Dipper and participated in the interpretation of the Yellow Emperor’s Neijing and the tiger talisman of the Qin and Han emperors.

The design and casting of the tiger talisman bronze head of “why not be afraid of illness” makes it an effective carrier of traditional Chinese medicine culture.

In addition, the antimicrobial function of copper ions began to be applied in the 18th century. Originally, copper sulphate was used to control wheat black disease.

In the 19th century, when the grapes in the Bordeaux region of France were plagued by pests and diseases year after year, Milharde used a solution containing copper ions to prepare Bordeaux liquid, which played an effective role in killing pests and diseases.

Subsequently, a variety of fungicides containing copper ions appeared, so that the bactericidal function of copper ions was widely known and gradually widely used.

At present, copper-containing stainless steel is used in the fields of medical equipment, building materials, household appliances and kitchen utensils.

Copper-containing stainless steel releases Cu ions in small amounts during contact with the environment, thereby achieving antibacterial function.

In addition to the excellent corrosion resistance of traditional stainless steel, Cu-containing antibacterial stainless steel can meet the requirements of decoration, beautification and good mechanical properties.

At the same time, it also has strong, broad-spectrum and long-lasting antibacterial properties, and is a new type of metal material with structure/function integration.

Therefore, to sum up, the advantages of the tiger charm copper head gua sha board are:

made of brass, which has a bactericidal effect;

Rapid sha and light pain;

It can reach the resonance frequency with the human body;

The temperature of the scraping site rises, and the qi entering the pulse can be warmed;

Dissolve stasis: cold gathers, heat disperses;

Stronger energy: The copper plate is scraped on the acupuncture points, and the penetration is strong.