gua sha
Meanings
noun
- A treatment used in traditional Chinese medicine involving repeated pressured strokes over the skin with a hard object thereby breaking surface capillaries and leaving light bruising, claimed to release unhealthy bodily matter.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 刮痧 (guāshā, literally “scrape sand”).
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