Do you know "Kerokan" ? Indonesian society culture

iindonesian.blogspot.com - KEROKAN is an alternative medicine therapy for symptoms of colds by the method of scratching while pressing the surface of the skin using oil and a blunt object such as a coin as a tool pengerok, which in turn causes red streaks or blisters on the skin. This traditional treatment using some sort of blunt object such as a coin, jade, marbles, pieces of ginger, onion pieces, or other blunt object used to rub the back. In addition to blunt force earlier, treatment scrapings also use a liquid such as oil slick telon, olive oil, coconut oil, or lotion. Slippery fluid is used to prevent irritation or abrasions on the skin scraped off. This action will "cast out wind" of the body with warm skin surface so that blood circulation increases and becomes smooth.

Although the medical world has advanced, but the habit of scrapings was still able to be enjoyed from various groups and social strata. This treatment is often applied by Indonesia until now, both young children and adults.

The way to overcome the symptoms of colds this 'scrapings' is not only popular in Indonesia, but also much favored by people in other Asian countries, such as Vietnam calls scrapings as cao giodi, while in Cambodia call goh kyol, even in China famous with acupuncture call scrapings with sua cave, only the difference of Chinese people wear jade as pengerok tool, not a coin as it is commonly used in Indonesia.