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- Mandarin · borrowed from刮痧
- English todaygua sha
Borrowed from Mandarin 刮痧 (guāshā, literally “scrape [away] illness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A treatment used in traditional Chinese medicine involving repeated pressured strokes over the skin with a hard object thereby breaking surface capillaries and leaving light bruising, claimed to release unhealthy bodily matter. Full definition →
Borrowed from Mandarin 刮痧 (guāshā, literally “scrape [away] illness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.