Gua Sha

Gua Sha involves lightly scraping the skin with a smooth surface (such as jade or a smooth piece of bone) until bruises are raised. The idea is that within the bruising little purple dots also appear, and raising those to the surface is releasing harmful toxins in the blood.

Learning the Culture

April 22nd 2016
Hey everyone! The new post is up! https://www.iesabroad.org/study-abroad/blogs/kmcgeepugetsoundedu/its-health-thing In other news, I had a very interesting encounter this week. I went to the supermarket with my host mother one evening after dinner, and she decided that she needed to buy hair dye. So we get to the hair dye isle, and she immediately begins conversing with this other woman ( ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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