The past few decades have seen a steady rise in the popularity of Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM in Jacksonville. Most people have heard about acupuncture and reflexology, but only a few know about a centuries old healing technique known as “gua sha therapy.” Westerners sometimes refer to this … Continue reading

Whenever a patient has pain in any chronic or acute disorder gua sha therapy can be used. There may be a knotty feeling, tenderness, and/or aching in the muscles. Palpation can determine sha when normal finger pressure is applied on the patient’s skin resulting in blanching that is slow to … Continue reading

Chinese scraping therapy, better known as Gua sha therapy, is an ancient natural Chinese therapy that works on the theory of TCM (Traditional Chinese medicine). Using materials such as jade or animal horns, a gua sha practitioner scrapes the skin on specific areas of the human body to dredge the … Continue reading