Gua sha: A Guide to Treating People (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781916898394)

Introducing a fresh, game-changing approach to treating people with Gua sha on the face and body for practitioners and aspiring practitioners in health, wellness, and beauty. Based on the natural science of Chinese medicine and informed by current scientific research and over twenty years of practical experience, Clive Witham unlocks the secrets to treating others.

As director of the Komorebi Institute and creator of Ecology in Motion, he is a pioneer in Gua sha and has published 6 popular books, including Facial Gua sha, Holographic Gua sha, and Self-Healing with Chinese Medicine. In this more technical work, with over 200 references to historical Chinese medicine and Western scientific studies, he systematically reveals his ground-breaking natural approach to Gua sha and how to apply it.

- Identify the universal key features of all Gua sha treatments on the face and body, which can transform your understanding and enable you to give safe, effective treatments with the results you need .

- Learn the practical procedures, tools, skills, and techniques required for professional treatments by health, wellness, or beauty practitioners, such as acupuncturists, manual therapists, estheticians, or massage professionals, but also for informal home care, simply consisting of treating friends and family.

- Understand Gua sha through historical Chinese medicine sources and modern Western science to help you base your treatments on solid, natural foundations.

- Discover a unique integrated way of approaching Gua sha using the accessible language of the natural world and systematically explore 11 focus areas around the body: head, face, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, chest, abdomen, back, legs, and feet.

- Examine 21 common reasons to treat, with clear practical strategies based on modern Gua sha research and extensive experience, including:

Aging featuresPain and discomfortColds and fluHeadachesDepression & anxietyFatigueDigestionNasal ProblemsInsomniaCoughs & breathing problemsHeatstroke & feversCold hands and feetDigestive disordersMenstrual discomfort

With this straightforward, practical approach of looking to the past to inform the present, EIM Gua sha effectively equips you to treat people with Gua sha in any modern situation in the twenty-first century.