She thanked a viral TikTok trend "Gu​ā sh​ā" for saving her life

Chinese  Gua Sha刮痧 become trendy skin care on Tik Tok for a while. 

Recently, a realtor from Alabama has thanked a viral TikTok beauty trend for saving her life — after it led to the discovery of stage four cancer.

Helen Bender, from Mobile, had been following the 'Gua Sha' trend, a 2,000-year-old technique from China which involves scraping the skin with a flat tool until tiny red dots appear.

But while she was doing this in April 2022, the 26-year-old spotted a large lump lurking under her skin just below the left side of her jaw.

Ms Bender said: 'Using Gua Sha saved my life.

'I'd started to use it to try and make my face skinnier when I noticed this bump, I wasn't sure what it was.

'I get sick a lot with colds and stuff, so I thought at first it was just a swollen lymph node.

'Then I noticed I'd lost a lot of weight. I was loving it thinking "I'm so skinny", not realizing it was cancer.'

She added: 'If I hadn't used [Gua Sha] so early on, I'd probably have... not managed to get it looked at. I could have died.'

Gua Sha videos have racked up hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok, after the practice was highlighted last year by celebrities including supermodel Elle Macpherson.

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Many netizens posted the before vs. after result videos and shocked people.

Even Miranda Kerr said Gua Sha is one of her favorite techniques to lift and sculpt her face.

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 Gua Sha 

Gua Sha, or 刮痧, scrapping, directly translates to “scratch” and “sand” (here, the sand refers to the raised redness on the skin instead of actual sand.) 

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However, there are still somethings need to be careful while using it.

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Have you tried Gua Sha before? 

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Source: dailymail 

Editor: CH

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