Ayurvedic Scraping
Scraping is a healing technique used in Ayurveda and other East Asian healing cultures. Graston is a modern variation of this technique using specialized stainless steel tools. Sometimes called ‘coining, spooning or gua sha’. It is defined as instrument-assisted unidirectional press-stroking of a lubricated area of the body surface to intentionally create transitory therapeutic petechiae representing extravasation of blood in the subcutis.
Modern research shows scraping produces an anti-inflammatory and immune protective effect that persists for days following a single scraping treatment. This accounts for its effect on pain, stiffness, fever, chill, cough, wheeze, nausea and vomiting etc., and why scraping is effective in acute and chronic internal organ disorders including liver inflammation in hepatitis.
