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12/24/2021

🙏 & in French 🇫🇷: There is an unfortunate misunderstanding that surrounds the small red dots (called ‘sha’ in Chinese Medicine) that frequently (and ideally) appear during Gua Sha treatment. Some think 🤦🏻‍♂️ and so name them petechiae - ironically being a dermatological skin pathology! This is utterly inconsistent with the ‘sha’ in Eastern medicine - which is a positive response, not a pathology, that indicates formerly embedded globules of intense heat toxin being released to the skin surface. This is achieved simply, and remarkably, by rubbing (smoothly scraping) a smooth edged instrument benevolently across the skin surface. Simply stated, ‘sha’ does not exist as a feature of the biomedical construct of the body. Furthermore, years ago when I had a dermatologist as a patient, I performed Gua Sha in front of him on a friend and asked if what he observed was petechiae. He answered ‘no’. Photos by Bruce Bentley
*** Please dear readers: don’t mess up and start calling all cupping marks “sha” - like was the wave that occurred when I first brought this concept to attention and explained it. Sha is the red dotting, and sure it also comes to the surface with cupping when it’s there... but it is certainly not a generic term to describe a cupping mark, which often represents a multitude of other manifest pathogens and imbalances. Read my description of sha in https://healthtraditions.com.au/essays/gua-sha-smoothly-scraping-the-sha/
🌹 Come and learn what you need to know and how to properly go about it at my Gua Sha workshops: www.healthtraditions.com.au and online in February
Contact Jasmin at jasmin@healthtraditions.com.au

Guasha : la notion de "sha" par Bruce Bentley
“Il y a une malheureuse méprise au sujet des petits points rouges qui apparaissent fréquemment (et idéalement) lors d’un traitement de Guasha.
Ces points que certains nomment de manière erronée des pétéchies en dermatologie et qui relèvent d’une pathologie cutanée, ne correspondent pas du tout à la notion de "sha" en médecine chinoise. L’apparition du "sha" indique la libération d’une chaleur toxique intense emprisonnée vers la surface de la peau, ce qui est positif. Ceci est obtenu simplement et de manière remarquable en frottant gentiment (grattage en douceur) un instrument à bords lisses contre la peau. En termes simples, le "sha" n’existe pas en biomédecine. De plus, il y a quelques années, j'avais un dermatologue en tant que patient, j'ai pratiqué le Guasha sur un ami devant lui. Je lui ai demandé si ce qu'il avait observé étaient des pétéchies. Il a répondu "non"."
Translation by Caroline Kessedjian

12/06/2021

Greetings One & All
You are invited to join me, Bruce (no jacket required), for the first of a new era of ongoing online presentations & discussions concerning Cupping & Gua Sha.
The inaugural session is coming soon on:
• Dec 12 (good for Sunday evening-ites in Australia & NZ and especially for those in Europe and others places East of me) &:
• Dec 13 (best for The Americas & day people in Oz)

SUBJECT: A History of Cupping: in all it’s cross-cultural glory since the year dot.

That’ll be for a hour - with the final 30 mins for questions.
It will be, as I hope you have come to expect, not an easy to come-by and duplicate copy of all the errors surrounding the topic that flood the info channels. Instead I give all that I know, based on in-depth in the field & archival research.
So do join me. It is fascinating stuff and a critical ‘must-know’ to begin to understand & appreciate this time-honoured therapy.
My intention with taking on all the research & practice I’ve done on cupping is to re-build it’s standing and the quality of the practice. To see it deservedly back to where it should be in broad practice. To set the record straight finally, while keeping in mind that, like any deep therapy, it is also an evolving one.
Here are the details:
💥Meeting 1.
Title: Health Traditions Chat
Time: Sun, Dec 12, 2021 @ 08:00 PM (Australia/East coast inc Melbourne, Sydney & BrisVegas 😅)
Duration: 1:30 hours
Please folks pay special attention to correctly syncing your time with mine 🌍

💥Meeting 2
Title: Health Traditions Chat
Time: Mon, Dec 13, 2021 @ 12:00 PM (Australia/ Sydney)
Duration: 1:30 hours

How to enrol: press either
Single session
https://healthtraditions.com.au/shop/product/zoho-chat-session-single/

Monthly sub
https://healthtraditions.com.au/shop/product/zoho-chat-session-monthly-subscription/

The cost is:
* $A35 per session OR
* For a month of presentations, that’s 4 consecutive meets, each an ongoing week apart the cost is $126 (that’s with a 10% discount).
Once completed, then email Jasmin at:
jasmin@healthtraditions.com.au
to get the meeting room info and login link.

PS: Rather than detailing specific topics for now, we feel it would best serve your interests if we listened to your requests. So please do that.

12/06/2021

Click:http://www.healthtraditions.com.au/essays/cupping_deficiency.pdf

I’m so used to seeing trashy dumb info bandied around about cupping that I just zip it, because I can’t be bothered wasting my time chasing and writing defences for the interminable volume of nonsense spouted by idiots 😅😂
As per one way of responding, let me post this essay again to verify, as one issue among many, that deficiency is NOT a contradiction to cupping. Well it is, but ONLY if you know very little about the subject and then you shouldn’t bother commenting about what you don’t know much about, right?
Be careful: it’s full of rubbish out there, often by morons and money-makers with no research or practice to speak of. And with that said: “Warm regards & hope you enjoy the read”.

12/06/2021

😃 After a burst of successful Zoom sessions, Jasmin my PA and I need to have some time-out till the first week in Dec, to work out a better way of doing it. So see you then ! And thanks to those who attended and who I met in person for the first time. You know a good time was had by all. 😄
In the meantime, hope you like this pic of a leg, with cups relayed down the gall bladder channel/antero-lateral region/lateral fascia plane. It’s hanging out in a passive stretch, and apart from some other moves to go with it, I know of nothing better to treat this margin.
🍿 People who’d like to be there in Dec for ”all things cupping & gua sha” and maybe more … by all means send your interest to Jasmin at:
jasmin@healthtraditions.com.au

10/15/2021

🌈🌈🌈WEEKEND ZOOMS with Bruce from HT - is Free/no charge
Join in our weekly informal Zoom chat if you’re curious or passionate about CUPPING & GUA SHA. Learn about what’s in store with our upcoming online classes, and at the same time ask Bruce directly, whatever you’d like to know about these therapies inc treatments, strategies …. whatever. Attendance is limited to 10 people per session because we want these to be a personable, informative & warm experience.
Here are the upcoming dates & details: SOON …
🌈 1. Sunday October 17 = AUSTRALIAN time @ 7pm
which makes it 10am central EUROPEAN time 😃
🌈 2. Monday October 18 = AUSTRALIAN time 11am which makes it Sunday 6pm for people in the AMERICAS on East Coast time

👋 so here’s what you do: simply email Jasmin (PA/ Admin) on 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
jasmin@healthtraditions.com.au

for login details & the link to our meeting room
Hope to see you.
Last week we got into all sorts of interesting talks

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If it interests you please read the full article in English, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish at:
https://healthtraditions.com.au/essays/a-cupping-mark-is-not-a-bruise/

Following the couple of gua sha posts on HT over the last 2 days, some people are asking about marks. Hope this helps out. Normally I would also direct people to read my “a cupping mark is not a bruise” essay but can’t do that right now because an idiot web-guy has stuffed up by ‘essays’ page on my site for the mo.
Here is a rundown of some different presentations - they are the outcome of different pathologies being brought to the skin surface.
• Commentary on cupping marks (pic):
From top left going clockwise:
1. Mottled: blood stasis associated with Qi deficiency (paleness).
2. Conical elevation with white peak: cold damp/phlegm (depending if soft or hard)
3. Blood stagnation with elevated black clots and swelling (indicating severe pain)
4. Swollen with mild stagnation (blockage of fluids and heat accumulation)
5. Small red dotting indicates the release of sha (heat toxins).
6. Coldness with an epicentre of strong deficiency
7. Dark blockage of painful blood stagnation (possibly caused by wind blockage) with accompanying sha
8. Long term trauma throughout the shoulder (with long term immobility and pain).

(All photos taken by Bruce Bentley)