🇨🇳 China · Traditional
Gua Sha刮痧（グアシャ）刮痧
Chinese external therapy scraping the skin in one direction with a smooth tool to raise petechiae; a light facial version is now popular in beauty.
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- Origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- Era
- Traditional
- Classification
- Related therapy / Traditional healing system
- Techniques
- Tool / Fascia
- Practitioner body parts
- Tool
- Medium
- Oil
- Clothing
- Clothed
- Setting
- Table
- Also known as
- Scraping therapy · Kerokan (Indonesia) · Cạo gió (Vietnam)
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