Definition of Guasa
The word, "guasa", is actually created from the combination of the spelling of 2 Chinese words' pronunciation, "gua" and "sa". The word "gua" literally means "scrap" and the word "sa" literally means "sand". So guasa means scrapping sand? No, it doesn't. In fact, it has got nothing to do with sand at all. For some reason, the reddish dots that appeared on the surfaced of our skin during guasa looks like sand to them, so they named it sand. To avoid confusion, I will use "sa" instead. Just as its name implies, guasa is a therapy that make use of scrapping technique to achieve healing results, so it is also commonly known as the scrapping therapy or massage therapy. The "sa" actually refers to the toxic and dead cells that were accumulated beneath our skin.
What are the tools required?
The only tool that you will need to perform guasa is a scrapping board that doesn't transmit heat and electrostatic charges. During Tang Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, the royal Chinese physicians use scrapping boards that are made of jade! Nowadays, we use scrapping boards that are made from water buffalo's horn. Compared to jade, water buffalo horn is just so much cheaper and it doesn't break as easily as jade. Most importantly, just like jade, water buffalo horn scrapping boards also doesn't transmit heat and electrostatic charges. This two properties are critical because it helps to prevent the therapist from absorbing the negative "qi" released by the patient's body. So make sure you do not try to use coin, rock, spoon, plastic scrapping board or anything else to substitute the buffalo horn scrapping board.
If you need to perform guasa on naked skin, guasa oil will be needed to further enhance the therapeutic effect as well as to avoid damaging your skin with the scrapping board. Good massage oil can be used as well, but proper guasa oil will be highly recommended. The iron rule of thumb here: Always use the right tool for the task!
What are the "sa"?
Just as I have mentioned above, the "sa" is actually dead cells and toxic that our body accumulated within our body over time. According to guasa therapy, "sa" is the root cause of all health issues in our body. These "sa" will disrupt the flow of blood and "qi" (energy flow) in our body, hence causing us problems. According to Chinese wisdom, if the flow of blood is blocked, we will experience pain, and if the flow of "qi" is blocked, we will experience numbness. Seriously, we should stop taking pain killers when we experience pain. Our body is seeking our attention regarding the blocked blood flow, hence it is sending us the pain signal. Stop asking our body to shut up with pain killers.
How does guasa works?
The science behind guasa is simple and very straight forward, unblock the blocked flow of blood and "qi" and your health will be restored. While performing guasa, it will activate the meridian paths in our body, telling it to clear the blockage along its path. There are altogether 20 meridian paths (12 standard meridians that are directly associated with our internal organs, and 8 extraordinary meridians that are pivotal in the studies of QiGong, Tai Chi and Chinese Alchemy) in our body, out of which only 14 meridian paths formed by a total of 751 meridian points are needed in guasa therapy. These meridian paths are invisible vessels of energy in our body that is responsible in controlling the flow of blood and "qi". When performing guasa, we are actually scrapping the meridian paths that are invisible in human anatomy, and it should NOT be mistaken as scrapping our physical blood veins, blood arteries or blood vessels that are visible in human anatomy. The existence of of these meridian paths were being cast aside in the past as pseudoscience because they were being mistaken as anatomical drawings. However, recent science has finally cleared the misunderstanding and caught up to this ancient wisdom. The existence of these meridian paths are now scientifically proven to exist.
The 12 standard meridians (grouped with accordance to their yin & yang nature, and the time frame indicates the time when they are most active) paths are:
1. Lung Meridian (Yin, 3am-5am)
2. Heart Meridian (Yin, 11am-1pm)
3. Pericardium Meridian (Yin, 7pm-9pm)
4. Spleen Meridian (Yin, 9am-11am)
5. Kidney Meridian (Yin, 5pm-7pm)
6. Liver Meridian (Yin, 1am-3am)
7. Triple Warmer/Triple Burner Meridian (Yang, 9pm-11pm)
8. Small Intestine Meridian (Yang, 1pm-3pm)
9. Big Intestine Meridian (Yang, 5am-7am)
10. Gal Bladder Meridian (Yang, 11pm-1am)
11. Urinary Bladder Meridian (Yang, 3pm-5pm)
12. Stomach Meridian (Yang, 7am-9am)
The 2 extraordinary meridians are:
1. Conception Vessel (Ren Mai)
2. Governing Vessel (Du Mai)
What are the benefits of guasa therapy?
Many people only know that guasa therapy is just for relieving heat stroke issues or just for releasing the excessive 'heat' from the body. The reason for that is because their guasa knowledge is being taught by their great grandparents, who probably self-taught their guasa knowledge through observation and word of mouth. In actual fact, guasa has these 10 benefits:
1. Promote metabolism and oxygen intake - Guasa therapy can be used as a form of aerobic exercise for our entire body cells. Good cell metabolism and high oxygen intake will ensure that our cells can carry out their tasks effectively.
2. Relieve sore muscles, joint pains and lethargy - Guasa therapy is good for all sorts of sports injuries that doesn't involve bleeding, cuts, wounds, fractured bones, dislocated joints or broken bones. If you sprained your muscles, sprained a part of your body (wrist, arm, feet, etc.), have stiff neck or shoulders, muscle cramp, or feels lethargy, guasa is an excellent treatment that provides instant relief. During the Olympics, which was held in Beijing in 2008, guasa therapy is used to treat athletes who sprained themselves, had muscle cramps, or experience lethargy right before competition starts, allowing them to continue to participate in their competition without any issue.
3. Regulate blood circulation - Just like aerobic sports, guasa therapy also helps to promote blood circulation in our body. Good blood circulation will ensure that our body is well supplied with oxygen, making us more energetic.
4. Activate cells by promoting oxygen intake to remove bruises - Normally, when someone got bruises, they would avoid touching it as it hurts. If you could endure the pain for a couple of minutes, guasa therapy can help to remove the bruises almost instantly. You may still see the purplish color of the bruised area, but you will not feel the pain anymore and the swollen bump is gone! Pain for 2 minutes or pain for 2-4 days? Choose for yourself.
5. Strengthen the immune system - Guasa therapy activates the 14 meridian paths in our body, hence it enhances our immune system greatly. A strong immune system will ensure that our body could defend us from harmful microorganism invasions and free from diseases.
6. Promote youthfulness and beauty - Guasa therapy is widely used in many beauty saloons because of it's wonderful, scientifically proven ability to promote youth and beauty. It can be used for body slimming, skin firming & lifting (face, breasts, and buttocks), and you get to enhance your health at the same time. It is also very famous as relaxation massage therapy.
7. Promote physical fitness - Guasa therapy helps to enhance our body's detoxification functions, thus making our body fit. With all the above 6 benefits combines, our body can truly become fit.
8. Slow down ageing process - This is also another reason why guasa therapy is very famous in beauty saloons. It is anti-ageing! As we grow older, our cells metabolism rate deteriorates, and made us look old. Guasa therapy can enhance & promote our cells metabolism, making it one of the cheapest way to slow down ageing.
9. Give relief to symptoms of illnesses or diseases - A guasa therapy handbook, written by a reputable Taiwanese guasa therapist, recorded 400 types of clinically proven guasa therapy techniques that can give relief to symptoms of illnesses or diseases such as migraine, menstrual issue, high blood pressure, diabetes, gout, stroke, erectile dysfunction, gastric, and asthma, just to name a few.
10. Pinpoint the source of a disease - This is another great benefit of guasa therapy that most people do not know. Guasa therapy is able to pinpoint the source of diseases way before it even get to the point of being labelled as a disease. Hence it is an excellent form of preventive therapy. Guasa therapy allows you to grasp the general health conditions of your internal organs, allowing you to prevent them from getting worse. While diagnosing your health, guasa therapy is also correcting your health issue at the same time.
The Three Types of Guasa Therapy
Guasa therapy is generally divided into 3 categories, guasa massage, diagnostic guasa, and disease treatment guasa. In step 2 of Elken's MRT Concept, only guasa massage and diagnostic guasa techniques are being taught because MRT concept is all about health, so we should leave the treatment part back to the rightfully certified Guasa therapy specialists. Just as we should seek medical advice from doctor. Don't try to act as a pharmacist and prescribe medicine yourself. Medication suppression and control of illnesses & diseases symptoms are the job of doctors, but restoration and optimization of our own health is our own responsibilities.
The 1st type - Guasa Massage
This guasa technique is the technique that is used in beauty saloons. Guasa massage can be performed on a daily basis without the need to worry about the "sa" showing up. For facial beauty guasa massage, we may perform the massage while using cream type facial mask, and it only takes less than 3 minutes to complete. Guasa massage on our head, arms, legs, lower back and abdomen can be performed on our own, at anytime of the day,
Definition of GuasaThe word, "guasa", is actually created from the combination of the spelling of 2 Chinese words' pronunciation, "gua" and "sa". The word "gua" literally means "scrap" and the word "sa" literally means "sand". So guasa means scrapping sand? No, it doesn't. In fact, it has got nothing to do with sand at all. For some reason, the reddish dots that appeared on the surfaced of our skin during guasa looks like sand to them, so they named it sand. To avoid confusion, I will use "sa" instead. Just as its name implies, guasa is a therapy that make use of scrapping technique to achieve healing results, so it is also commonly known as the scrapping therapy or massage therapy. The "sa" actually refers to the toxic and dead cells that were accumulated beneath our skin.What are the tools required?The only tool that you will need to perform guasa is a scrapping board that doesn't transmit heat and electrostatic charges. During Tang Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, the royal Chinese physicians use scrapping boards that are made of jade! Nowadays, we use scrapping boards that are made from water buffalo's horn. Compared to jade, water buffalo horn is just so much cheaper and it doesn't break as easily as jade. Most importantly, just like jade, water buffalo horn scrapping boards also doesn't transmit heat and electrostatic charges. This two properties are critical because it helps to prevent the therapist from absorbing the negative "qi" released by the patient's body. So make sure you do not try to use coin, rock, spoon, plastic scrapping board or anything else to substitute the buffalo horn scrapping board.If you need to perform guasa on naked skin, guasa oil will be needed to further enhance the therapeutic effect as well as to avoid damaging your skin with the scrapping board. Good massage oil can be used as well, but proper guasa oil will be highly recommended. The iron rule of thumb here: Always use the right tool for the task!What are the "sa"?Just as I have mentioned above, the "sa" is actually dead cells and toxic that our body accumulated within our body over time. According to guasa therapy, "sa" is the root cause of all health issues in our body. These "sa" will disrupt the flow of blood and "qi" (energy flow) in our body, hence causing us problems. According to Chinese wisdom, if the flow of blood is blocked, we will experience pain, and if the flow of "qi" is blocked, we will experience numbness. Seriously, we should stop taking pain killers when we experience pain. Our body is seeking our attention regarding the blocked blood flow, hence it is sending us the pain signal. Stop asking our body to shut up with pain killers.How does guasa works?The science behind guasa is simple and very straight forward, unblock the blocked flow of blood and "qi" and your health will be restored. While performing guasa, it will activate the meridian paths in our body, telling it to clear the blockage along its path. There are altogether 20 meridian paths (12 standard meridians that are directly associated with our internal organs, and 8 extraordinary meridians that are pivotal in the studies of QiGong, Tai Chi and Chinese Alchemy) in our body, out of which only 14 meridian paths formed by a total of 751 meridian points are needed in guasa therapy. These meridian paths are invisible vessels of energy in our body that is responsible in controlling the flow of blood and "qi". When performing guasa, we are actually scrapping the meridian paths that are invisible in human anatomy, and it should NOT be mistaken as scrapping our physical blood veins, blood arteries or blood vessels that are visible in human anatomy. The existence of of these meridian paths were being cast aside in the past as pseudoscience because they were being mistaken as anatomical drawings. However, recent science has finally cleared the misunderstanding and caught up to this ancient wisdom. The existence of these meridian paths are now scientifically proven to exist.The 12 standard meridians (grouped with accordance to their yin & yang nature, and the time frame indicates the time when they are most active) paths are:
1. Lung Meridian (Yin, 3am-5am)
2. Heart Meridian (Yin, 11am-1pm)
3. Pericardium Meridian (Yin, 7pm-9pm)
4. Spleen Meridian (Yin, 9am-11am)
5. Kidney Meridian (Yin, 5pm-7pm)
6. Liver Meridian (Yin, 1am-3am)
7. Triple Warmer/Triple Burner Meridian (Yang, 9pm-11pm)
8. Small Intestine Meridian (Yang, 1pm-3pm)
9. Big Intestine Meridian (Yang, 5am-7am)
10. Gal Bladder Meridian (Yang, 11pm-1am)
11. Urinary Bladder Meridian (Yang, 3pm-5pm)
12. Stomach Meridian (Yang, 7am-9am)
The 2 extraordinary meridians are:
1. Conception Vessel (Ren Mai)
2. Governing Vessel (Du Mai)
What are the benefits of guasa therapy?
Many people only know that guasa therapy is just for relieving heat stroke issues or just for releasing the excessive 'heat' from the body. The reason for that is because their guasa knowledge is being taught by their great grandparents, who probably self-taught their guasa knowledge through observation and word of mouth. In actual fact, guasa has these 10 benefits:
1. Promote metabolism and oxygen intake - Guasa therapy can be used as a form of aerobic exercise for our entire body cells. Good cell metabolism and high oxygen intake will ensure that our cells can carry out their tasks effectively.
2. Relieve sore muscles, joint pains and lethargy - Guasa therapy is good for all sorts of sports injuries that doesn't involve bleeding, cuts, wounds, fractured bones, dislocated joints or broken bones. If you sprained your muscles, sprained a part of your body (wrist, arm, feet, etc.), have stiff neck or shoulders, muscle cramp, or feels lethargy, guasa is an excellent treatment that provides instant relief. During the Olympics, which was held in Beijing in 2008, guasa therapy is used to treat athletes who sprained themselves, had muscle cramps, or experience lethargy right before competition starts, allowing them to continue to participate in their competition without any issue.
3. Regulate blood circulation - Just like aerobic sports, guasa therapy also helps to promote blood circulation in our body. Good blood circulation will ensure that our body is well supplied with oxygen, making us more energetic.
4. Activate cells by promoting oxygen intake to remove bruises - Normally, when someone got bruises, they would avoid touching it as it hurts. If you could endure the pain for a couple of minutes, guasa therapy can help to remove the bruises almost instantly. You may still see the purplish color of the bruised area, but you will not feel the pain anymore and the swollen bump is gone! Pain for 2 minutes or pain for 2-4 days? Choose for yourself.
5. Strengthen the immune system - Guasa therapy activates the 14 meridian paths in our body, hence it enhances our immune system greatly. A strong immune system will ensure that our body could defend us from harmful microorganism invasions and free from diseases.
6. Promote youthfulness and beauty - Guasa therapy is widely used in many beauty saloons because of it's wonderful, scientifically proven ability to promote youth and beauty. It can be used for body slimming, skin firming & lifting (face, breasts, and buttocks), and you get to enhance your health at the same time. It is also very famous as relaxation massage therapy.
7. Promote physical fitness - Guasa therapy helps to enhance our body's detoxification functions, thus making our body fit. With all the above 6 benefits combines, our body can truly become fit.
8. Slow down ageing process - This is also another reason why guasa therapy is very famous in beauty saloons. It is anti-ageing! As we grow older, our cells metabolism rate deteriorates, and made us look old. Guasa therapy can enhance & promote our cells metabolism, making it one of the cheapest way to slow down ageing.
9. Give relief to symptoms of illnesses or diseases - A guasa therapy handbook, written by a reputable Taiwanese guasa therapist, recorded 400 types of clinically proven guasa therapy techniques that can give relief to symptoms of illnesses or diseases such as migraine, menstrual issue, high blood pressure, diabetes, gout, stroke, erectile dysfunction, gastric, and asthma, just to name a few.
10. Pinpoint the source of a disease - This is another great benefit of guasa therapy that most people do not know. Guasa therapy is able to pinpoint the source of diseases way before it even get to the point of being labelled as a disease. Hence it is an excellent form of preventive therapy. Guasa therapy allows you to grasp the general health conditions of your internal organs, allowing you to prevent them from getting worse. While diagnosing your health, guasa therapy is also correcting your health issue at the same time.
The Three Types of Guasa Therapy
Guasa therapy is generally divided into 3 categories, guasa massage, diagnostic guasa, and disease treatment guasa. In step 2 of Elken's MRT Concept, only guasa massage and diagnostic guasa techniques are being taught because MRT concept is all about health, so we should leave the treatment part back to the rightfully certified Guasa therapy specialists. Just as we should seek medical advice from doctor. Don't try to act as a pharmacist and prescribe medicine yourself. Medication suppression and control of illnesses & diseases symptoms are the job of doctors, but restoration and optimization of our own health is our own responsibilities.
The 1st type - Guasa Massage
This guasa technique is the technique that is used in beauty saloons. Guasa massage can be performed on a daily basis without the need to worry about the "sa" showing up. For facial beauty guasa massage, we may perform the massage while using cream type facial mask, and it only takes less than 3 minutes to complete. Guasa massage on our head, arms, legs, lower back and abdomen can be performed on our own, at anytime of the day,
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