What is Gua Sha

Gua sha is a traditional Chinese medicine technique that involves scraping the skin with a stone tool. According to the principles of TCM, your qi or energy, must flow throughout your body so you can feel your best. When qi becomes stagnant in certain areas, it’s believed that health problems can occur. With gua sha, a practitioner (an acupuncturist in many cases) will use a smooth-edged tool to gently scrape areas of your body where there is inflammation or stagnant qi to help improve circulation and promote healing.