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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Mandarin 刮痧 (guāshā, literally “scrape sand”).
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
