The Amazing Benefits of This Trending Technique [Video]

Suddenly, it seems like tools to roll and scrape your body are popping up everywhere. But the technique these unique beauty tools are drawing on, Gua Sha, has actually been around for a long time.

Gua Sha, or muscle scraping, is a centuries-old technique used to relieve pain, fight aging, and improve chi. Read on to learn more, including:

Gua Sha is an ancient Chinese natural therapy (it’s over 2,000 years old!) similar to massage. But instead of using their hands, practitioners use special tools to scrape the skin of the back, buttocks, arms, legs, and sometimes the face.

During the treatment, practitioners use many of the same long downward strokes as a regular massage to stimulate circulation and increase blood flow—a process that manipulates natural energy, or chi, to improve your body’s overall health.

Though formal scientific research on the …