It does leave really big purple marks on your back, i always take photo`s after haha, it looks like it hurts but it dosnt hurt at all, except for the rubbing part haha

It does leave really big purple marks on your back, i always take photo`s after haha, it looks like it hurts but it dosnt hurt at all, except for the rubbing part haha

It works is by scraping the coin through the hallow space between your bones, your skin must be lubricated by balsam. I suppose regular massage oil won't do. Must be heated massage oil? We call it balsam anyway. And I put lubricated because scraping your skin is painful. It's not stingy as some people who never tried it said, it's simply painful. It will create welts of red bumps. Tiny-tiny red bumps. When it's blood red, then it's cold air. When it's chili red, then it's cold air and your body is heaty. Heaty is another story.

If you have aches in your back and feeling dizzy or warm for no reason whatsoever, think back, maybe you have been exposed to cold air. It can be very uncomfortable, medical people call it 'cold'. Coining will miraculously take that cold away from you. I'm not sure how it works. But the red welts will be gone in a few days, unlike bruises.

The origin of coining is not known by me. Yet it came down to me from my mother's side. Although my mother is a straits Chinese, she is peranakan (nyonya) by culture. I believe if you understand everything I wrote, kerokan is a piece of cake.

I grew up in a Polish household where, when I was sick and especially if I had a bad cough, my mother would give me ginger brandy, which could be considered child abuse, but ask any pharmacist: it works suppressing the cough. Every family has their own ways I guess.

You’re famous!
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041219/NEWS01/412190334/1001/NEWS

Since you are a lawyer (sort of, or at least you were one until you were maybe forced out), why didn’t you know to get a copy of those pictures AHEAD of the trial, during the discovery phase? In discovery you are supposed to get a copy of all the other side’s exhibits. Sounds pretty fishy, your claim that they somehow “sprung this on you”. You simply have to have known they’d be talking about the scars.

Since you are (ok, perhaps *were*) a lawyer, and since you KNEW they were going to ask you about the marks … Why didn’t you get anyone to come in and explain what the marks are? I mean, when you’re in a case like this, and you get your discovery packet, and it has pictures of bruises … what kind of fool would ever go in without a ton of documentary evidence and expert opinion? (The kind of fool who gets disbarred?)

And you showed your lawyer the marks, and *HE* didn’t believe you, either? Fo’ real? Damn. I’d think you might be able to show your own lawyer enough information, that he’d *try* to believe you.

So, you’re an immigration attorney, or so you used to be. So, you sued your mail order bride because she doesn’t “wuv” you anymore. Oh, I forgot, it seems from this posting ( http://www.noinvaders.org/article_displayer.php?id=64 ) that she takes the commonly prescribed anti-inflamatory medication “Prednisone”. So you sued her for that, too.

Because she takes Prednisone (What’s she got? A little arthritis?) you think she should be … deported. Seriously? You sound amazing.

It’s not that I don’t believe you.

OK … OK … maybe it *IS* precisely that. Maybe I just don’t believe you.

You just don’t seem all that credible. Disbarred on ethics charges. Issuing personal Writs of Mandamus to *order* USCIS/BICE to obey your commands (Seriously? Where’d you go to school?). Forbidden from practicing in Immigration Court.

… And railroading this girl, trying to force her back to a 3rd world country through immigration laws, because she doesn’t “wuv” you anymore (oh, and she suffers from mild joint pain).

Time to just move on, buddy.

For Juergen, yes the thing which your East Javanese friend got was black magic. It’s done via some seen materials and carried by an unseen media which is called Gene (Jin). Only people who has strong faith who can avoid / reject this black magic, no one is greater than God.

Tschau!
Jenna aus Java

I didn’t use to like this method because I thought it hurts like hell, but it’s a matter of having the right person to do it (has something to do with how the person holds the coin). And yep, it really does work

I’m a chiropractor in Los Angeles, in practice for 30 years. For the last 7 years I have been helping patients with ‘coin rubbing’, ‘scraping,’ or in Chinese ‘gua sha.’
It is one powerful treatment. As a practitioner, I like to use techniques in my office that help patients feel better, recover from pain&injury, prevent colds and flu, get out of chronic pain.

Gua sha (kerokan) works wonders. The testimonials on this blog are enough to point to the truth about this treatment. Including how ugly, horrifying the red rash is on some folks. And how painful the treatment is on other folks.

In traditional chinese medicine the red rash that can appear is the manifestation of blood stagnation. I will say from my clinic experience with many patients that there are a small number of people that have no ‘sha.’ Sha means rash, or bumplies (little skin bumps, or raised areas) in Chinese. These people with no red areas just have pink skin similar to a sunburn which goes away inl 30 minutes to a few hours.

When the red rash appears it takes 3 to 8 days to disappear, depending on how well the superficial blood circulation is in the patient.

The darker red the rash is– the longer the stagnation has been present. Deep red/purple skin color at the time of massage indicates blood stagnation with excess heat in the blood mixed with other toxins.

It’s no wonder the woman who has the treatment feels blissful when it’s over.

When a patient has a moderate to severe amount of rash, I always recommend follow up visits. Kerokan on a second visit (after the redness is gone completely) brings up more blood stagnation (commonly less quantity than the first time). What is the goal in following up, you ask?

It’s to get rid of hidden, undiagnosed blood stagnation so that the small blood vessels that carry blood to the muscles can do their job BETTER. In oriental medicine it is one of bloods’ jobs to NOURISH muscles. When there is stagnant blood, muscles get tight, or cramp/spasm, and the skin (surface of body) becomes congested.

The skin is part of the immune system in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It protects the body from external invasion. Colds and flu come from wind cold, wind heat, even wind damp attacking the skin surface. A man withou weak immune system (congested skin surface) may allows entrance of that chilly wind to the capillaries on the neck and arms. Then he wonders why his throat is sore 24 hours later. Then his nose begins to run….

I use gua sha tools to massage the skin and muscles. One is wooden with smooth curved surfaces, the other is made from buffalo horn. I even use a round bottle cap with smooth edges which allows me to press with my thumb on the cap into the skin&muscle tissue as I slide down to the lower areas.

Great for sports injury to the neck, whiplash injury (car acidents), chronic neck pain, headache syndromes of many kinds including migraines, shoulder problems, carpal tunnel (wrist hand, finger pain, tingling), lung infections, chronic coughs (gotta do the upper back, shoulder blades in the region that has lung nerve supply), Low back pain, sciatica (hip/buttock, leg pain) and many more.

Peace and keep exploring what kerokan can do for your Health.

Dr. Wah