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 Arya
Nielsen presents: |
Gua Sha:
A Traditional Technique for Modern Practice
Friday, September 5,2003
— 9 am-5 pm
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| "By using historical
examinations of East Asian medical texts, cross-cultural historical
documents, contemporary scholarly sources, interviews with living elder
practitioners and her own keen clinical experience (Arya Nielsen) has
brought Gua Sha to the center of Oriental medicine clinical practice. She
has found a precious lost ring that might have gone down the drain of
disuse."
Ted Kaptchuk, OMD
Harvard Medical School
Author The Web That Has No Weaver |
Gua sha is a healing technique used
in Asia by practitioners of Traditional Medicine, in both the clinical
setting and in homes, but little known in the West. It involves palpation
and cutaneous stimulation where the skin is pressured, in strokes, by a
round-edged instrument; that results in the appearance of small red
petechiae called 'sha', that will fade in 2 to 3 days.
Raising sha removes blood stagnation
considered pathogenic, promoting normal circulation and metabolic processes.
The patient experiences immediate relief from pain, stiffness, fever, chill,
cough, nausea, and so on. Gua sha is valuable in the prevention and
treatment of acute infectious illness, upper respiratory and digestive
problems, and many other acute or chronic disorders.
Participants will learn the history
of this amazing technique, how to palpate for sha, how to perform gua sha,
when to use gua sha clinically and how to interpret the results in the
context of East Asian diagnosis and prognosis. This seminar is a favorite
for practitioners because what is learned can be used in practice with
immediate results.
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"With a deep and broad
historic perspective, Arya Nielsen has enormously enriched my associations
with Gua Sha, which…I had learned from my own Chinese teacher as a
remarkable and often miraculous intervention for afflictions resistant to
the ministrations of biomedical technologies in which I was originally
trained. …"
Leon Hammer, MD
Author, Dragon Rises,
Red Bird Flies,
Psychology and Chinese Medicine |
Biography: Arya Nielsen is a professor of
East Asian Medicine, National Board Certified in Acupuncture and Chinese
Herbal Medicine, a Fellow of the National Academy of Acupuncture and
Oriental Medicine, and past Chair of the New York State Board for
Acupuncture. She has been in private practice for over 25 years, is a Senior
Faculty member at the Tri-State College of Acupuncture.
Arya is the author of Gua Sha: A Traditional Technique for
Modern Practice, and the video Gua Sha: Step-by-Step. |
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