The Treatment

Original title: Gua sha

2001
1h 40m

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The painless bruise marks on a child from the traditional Chinese Gua Sha treatment was mistaken by child protection services as evidence of abuse and neglect, stirring clashes and debates o... Read allThe painless bruise marks on a child from the traditional Chinese Gua Sha treatment was mistaken by child protection services as evidence of abuse and neglect, stirring clashes and debates on cultural prejudice and false philanthropy.The painless bruise marks on a child from the traditional Chinese Gua Sha treatment was mistaken by child protection services as evidence of abuse and neglect, stirring clashes and debates on cultural prejudice and false philanthropy.

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Masterpiece on Cultural misunderstandings

Gua Sha is a treatment in traditional oriental medicine in which a wooden board repeatedly slides across the patient's acupuncture/acupressure/massage points. It works in similar principles like that of acupuncture/acupressure/massage. This method would inevitably leave bruise on the skin, and the story begins here, when the visiting grandpa who does not speak any English used this traditional practice to treat the grandson when both son and daughter-in-law were at work.

Sadly, in US, this is a story that repeats itself many times in the area where many oriental immigrants lives and all of these are due to simple misunderstanding between cultures.