Hair and Body Combing Rituals
How to Use the Crystal Hair Comb
Instructions for using the Crystal Comb in your hair
- Find a quiet place and take a few deep breaths to relax.
- Gently run the comb through your hair starting on the right side and then the left.
- The whole practice need only take a few minutes.
- Done correctly this technique will not only maintain and benefit your hair but provides you with a few moments of mindfulness in an often busy day.
- Learn more about Crystal Hair Combs.
Crystal combs used in this way to on the hair are also referred to as gua sha hair combs amongst other names as the stroking motion provides a therapeutic massage to the scalp and the acupuncture channels that criss cross it.
Body Combing the Arms with the Massage Comb
Body combing is a very old tradition, dating thousands of years and originating from ancient china. It was practiced daily as a form of gua sha using a variety of crystal or stone comb tools. Most common for the wealthy were a crystal comb or a gua sha crystal tool (shaped like a triangle). They were performed by the rich and powerful to maintain their vitality, power and appearance
In traditional Chinese medicine (where jade gua sha tools originate) there are many daily practices that maintained your health, wellness and beauty and were intended to prevent sickness. These rituals are becoming increasingly popular today and have stood the test of time.
Body Combing the Legs
Instructions to Perform Body Combing on the Limbs
- Simply start by applying the White Lotus organic green tea oil to the body from the bottom of the limbs working upwards.
- Always start on the right side of the body and once completed repeat on the left side of the body.
- Always stroke upwards never in a downward motion.
- Work from the outside of the body inwards. (outer leg to inner leg) - It is important with any form of massage to work with vascular and lymphatic drainage to avoid blood pooling in the limbs.
- Use the comb gently!
- Starting with the outside of the legs from the outer right ankle.
- Use the pointed end of the crystal gua sha or the crystal comb and gently massage in a circular motion directly upwards to the knee and the repeat working towards the inside of the leg.
- Repeat on all areas on the right side of the body working up the body and then on the repeat on the left side.
- Traditionally it is understood that energy circulates from the right side of the body to the left and it is believed you will achieve better results this way.
- You can also repeat the stroking motion using the other smoother side of the comb.
Using Crystal Combs for the Scalp
Instructions to use the Crystal Comb on the Scalp
- This can be done with either the gua sha or crystal comb.
- When using the comb there are similarities to when you comb your hair but the aim is to stimulate the multiple acupuncture channels that transverse your scalp.
- Use the pointed end of the guasha comb on the right side of the scalp first.
- Start at the front of the hair line and work backwards towards the neck.
- When you have completed this motion return to the front of the hair line and start slightly closer to the mid line of the scalp and work back towards the neck again.
- Keep repeating this until you reach the mid line and then repeat on teh left side.
- The most important point to remember is to work from front to back.
Why do Scalp Combing?
Scalp combing stimulates the multiple acupuncture channels that transverse the scalp. This can improve functioning of the channels resulting in better health and ultimately cosmetic improvements.
Body and gua sha scalp combing can be performed by using a crystal comb or crystal gua sha tool. It only takes a few minutes a day. It can also be followed with or alternated daily with body cupping and the intensive (spikey) Jade roller as well as fortnightly sessions of micro needling.
There are 12 acupuncture channels that circulate the body, using this technique on the arms, legs and the scalp can stimulate all of the major channels of the body to produce better health.
What is a Scalp Gua Sha Comb?
Gua sha is a traditional Chinese terms which essentially means to scrape the skin. By using a crystal comb to scrape and stimulate the skin on your scalp you are essentially stimulating the acupressure channels in the are to improve your health and appearance.
Jade, rose quartz or amethyst are usually the best crystals to use as scalp massager combs.
Why use a Gua Sha Body Comb?
By using a gua sha tool daily on your body and face it was thought to activate the qi and blood (energy and circulation of the body and internal organs). The face reflects the state of your internal health in traditional Chinese thinking . By keeping the circulation of energy and blood around the body it invigorates and promotes youthful skin and a healthy complexion.
Tui Na (a form of traditional Chinese medical massage) employs the use of body combing by stimulating the acupuncture channels of the limbs and scalp . Many Chinese people still to this day practice these rituals daily on themselves to increase their longevity and well being.
Modern research into gua sha has shown that it increases micro-circulation by 400% during and after a treatment and the effects remain for at least 25 minutes after the treatment. Gua Sha Treatments can reduce pain in the area treated and in many cases in the surrounding tissue. (1)
Introducing Chinese body combing into your daily beauty rituals will tone and lift the skin. It is very useful for firming the body, neck and face, eliminating toxins and preventing sagging. The coolness and properties of the crystals also close and tighten the pores.
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1. Nielsen A, et al. (2007). The effect of Gua Sha treatment on the microcirculation of surface tissue: a pilot study in healthy subjects. Explore (NY). Sep-Oct;3(5):456-66.
