The movie borrows Gua Sha to talk about the differences between Chinese and Western cultures. In the movie, the hero’s five-year-old son has a fever, and his grandfather, who can’t read the English manual, cures him by scraping the child’s back, leaving the mark on the child’s back, which later becomes the evidence of the hero’s mistreatment of his son by mistake.
I think, scraping this thing and Chinese medicine, the same, with uncertainty, different doctors, often the treatment results vary greatly, the technique of poor people scraping may lead to rupture of blood vessels, different physique effect is also different, coagulation function abnormalities or suffering from skin diseases are not scraping.
Modern medicine believes that the essence of gua sha is subcutaneous capillary rupture caused by blood, not the so-called “toxin” discharge, gua sha principle lies in the human body to cope with pain stimulation secretion of endorphins.
2001 / China / Drama Family / Zheng Xiaolong / Leung Ka Fai Jiang Wenli
Computer game designer Datong Xu (Tony Leung Ka Fai) and his wife Jane Ning (Jiang Wenli) have been working in the United States for eight years.
But an accident turns their beautiful family into a tragic one: when their five-year-old son falls ill, his elderly father (Zhu Xu) uses traditional Chinese gua sha (gua sha) to help his grandson get better.
The couple is then accused of child abuse, and they are unable to defend themselves against the physical and human evidence, as Western doctors are unable to understand this traditional Chinese treatment.
As a result of this incident, both father and son and the couple are forced to separate.
Tatung is heartbroken, facing his son and wife, what can he do to redress his grievances? Can the matter be satisfactorily resolved?
