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Gua sha

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Gua sha is a traditional Chinese medical treatment in which the skin is scraped to produce light petechiae. [1]

23 relations: Acupuncture, Ceramic, Child abuse, Chiropractic treatment techniques, Cupping therapy, Cyclo (film), Effleurage, Epiglottitis, Gua sha, Hong Kong, Jiang Wenli, Meridian (Chinese medicine), Overseas Vietnamese, Pathogen, Romanization, Shanghan Lun, Strigil, The Gua Sha Treatment, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Traditional Chinese medicine, Traditional medicine, Tui na, Zhu Xu.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine in which thin needles are inserted into the body.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is a non-metallic solid material comprising an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.

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Child abuse

Child abuse or child maltreatment is physical, sexual, or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or other caregiver.

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Chiropractic treatment techniques

Chiropractors primarily use manipulation ("adjustment") of the spine as a treatment.

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Cupping therapy

Cupping therapy is a form of alternative medicine in which a local suction is created on the skin.

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Cyclo (film)

Cyclo (Xích Lô) is a 1995 film by Tran Anh Hung (who had made The Scent of Green Papaya).

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Effleurage

Effleurage, a French word meaning "to skim" or "to touch lightly on", is a series of massage strokes used in Swedish massage to warm up the muscle before deep tissue work using petrissage.

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Epiglottitis

Epiglottitis is inflammation of the epiglottis—the flap at the base of the tongue that keeps food from going into the trachea (windpipe).

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Gua sha

Gua sha is a traditional Chinese medical treatment in which the skin is scraped to produce light petechiae.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Jiang Wenli

Jiang Wenli (born 20 June 1969) is a Chinese actress.

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Meridian (Chinese medicine)

The meridian system (also called channel network) is a concept in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) about a path through which the life-energy known as "qi" flows.

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Overseas Vietnamese

Overseas Vietnamese (Người Việt hải ngoại, which literally means "Overseas Vietnamese", or Việt Kiều, a Sino-Vietnamese word (越僑) literally translating to "Vietnamese sojourner") refers to Vietnamese people living outside Vietnam in a diaspora, by far the largest community of which live in the United States.

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Pathogen

In biology, a pathogen (πάθος pathos "suffering, passion" and -γενής -genēs "producer of") or a '''germ''' in the oldest and broadest sense is anything that can produce disease; the term came into use in the 1880s.

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Romanization

Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of writing from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.

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Shanghan Lun

The Shanghan Lun or Shanghan Zabing Lun, known in English as the Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders or the Treatise on Cold Injury, is a Chinese medical treatise that was compiled by Zhang Zhongjing sometime before the year 220, at the end of the Han dynasty.

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Strigil

The strigil is a tool for the cleansing of the body by scraping off dirt, perspiration, and oil that was applied before bathing in Ancient Greek and Roman cultures.

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The Gua Sha Treatment

The Gua Sha Treatment is a Chinese movie released in 2001 starring Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Zhu Xu, and Jiang Wenli.

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Tony Leung Ka-fai

Tony Leung Ka-fai (born 1 February 1958) is a Hong Kong actor who is a four-time winner of the Hong Kong Film Award, Best Actor.

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Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a style of traditional medicine built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy, but recently also influenced by modern Western medicine.

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Traditional medicine

Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within various societies before the era of modern medicine.

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Tui na

Tui na is a form of Chinese manipulative therapy often used in conjunction with acupuncture, moxibustion, fire cupping, Chinese herbalism, t'ai chi, and qigong.

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Zhu Xu

Zhu Xu is a Chinese actor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua_sha

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