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Lucky now home leave in Hong Kong and view this great scientific way to study Guasha, (in Mainland even Youtube was banned), I'm sure the Guasha works but in China people talk a lot on this but at least me a layman have not see any convincing study on its mechanism.
My name is Stone Siu, service engineer for Caterpillar, from HK and stations in Beijing. Got nothing done with medical business but just take different alternatives for fun, in the past few years I did some study on the guasha tools... from my mechanical of view. What was that mouse original health condition? For such a small mouse, the force applied even distorted its body; Plastic spoon molding line usually sharp, what those red dots might not necessary be the Chinese medical so called "Sha". Have you did any study comparing healthy and sick? With different tools on different meridian line / zone?
FYI, in China a Guasha doctor Ms. Zhang Xiuqin did a lot of promotion, the book "Holographic Meridian Scraping Therapy (Guasha) for Modern Practice" got English version, the 2002 CD ISRC CN-A51-99-0044 o/v.G4 got Mandarin and English narration. ( Look at the names of the people involve in this study, quite some might be from mainland China and some might be from HK, anyway this link could be a contact point "www.jingluoguasha.cn/".)
To me Zhang Xiuqin's overall sayings are good, but I do not agree on Chinese traditional Guasha tools, (documented here "http://xiaoshiwei.blogspot.com/ " in Chinese), next time if you do any similar study, may make simple tool to have a better controlled scrape area.
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Dear Authors, Thanks for your great work. As an anesthesiologist who work in the field of wet-cupping, I believe that your work is an important step forward to find the mechanisms of wet-cupping and find who does it worked. We are going to find the effects of wet-cupping in the treatment of Leishmaniasis in mice. For doing wet-cupping for mice, we used to another approach that is similar to your work. However, I learn a lot from your work. Thanks for this important work. Alireza Ahmadi, MD Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Iran Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
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Dear Dr. Ahmadi,
Looking forward to the publication of your work. Wet cupping as well as fire cupping would be expected to induce HO-1 due to the break down of hemoglobins. Other anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative processes are also obviously involved as HO-1 induction, which takes hours to build up, may not account for the immediate relief patients generally claim for cupping or Gua Sha.
Lucky now home leave in Hong Kong and view this great scientific way to study Guasha, (in Mainland even Youtube was banned), I'm sure the Guasha works but in China people talk a lot on this but at least me a layman have not see any convincing study on its mechanism.
My name is Stone Siu, service engineer for Caterpillar, from HK and stations in Beijing. Got nothing done with medical business but just take different alternatives for fun, in the past few years I did some study on the guasha tools... from my mechanical of view.
What was that mouse original health condition? For such a small mouse, the force applied even distorted its body; Plastic spoon molding line usually sharp, what those red dots might not necessary be the Chinese medical so called "Sha". Have you did any study comparing healthy and sick? With different tools on different meridian line / zone?
FYI, in China a Guasha doctor Ms. Zhang Xiuqin did a lot of promotion, the book "Holographic Meridian Scraping Therapy (Guasha) for Modern Practice" got English version, the 2002 CD ISRC CN-A51-99-0044 o/v.G4 got Mandarin and English narration. ( Look at the names of the people involve in this study, quite some might be from mainland China and some might be from HK, anyway this link could be a contact point "www.jingluoguasha.cn/".)
To me Zhang Xiuqin's overall sayings are good, but I do not agree on Chinese traditional Guasha tools, (documented here "http://xiaoshiwei.blogspot.com/ " in Chinese), next time if you do any similar study, may make simple tool to have a better controlled scrape area.
Thank you for your attention
Stone
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ReplyPosted by: Stone SiuJanuary 2, 2010, 12:40 AM