Can cupping cure skin diseases?

Cupping is a common TCM treatment method. It can play a certain role in promoting blood circulation, relieving physical fatigue, etc. Of course, when you have skin diseases, cupping is generally not used for treatment, because cupping can easily cause skin damage and aggravate the condition. Therefore, cupping is not used to treat skin diseases. During the cupping process, skin damage should also be avoided.

The benefits of cupping There are many benefits of cupping. Cupping is also known as "cupping gas" and "suction cup therapy", and was called "horn method" in ancient times. This is a therapy that uses cups as tools to expel the air inside through heat, creating negative pressure, which is then absorbed by the skin, causing congestion. 1. Cupping can allow moisture and cold air in the body to penetrate through the skin tissue, thereby eliminating evil spirits and making people feel more energetic. 2. Because the body's meridians, acupoints and internal organs are all interconnected, the external suction force will stimulate the acupoints on the body's surface, and then through the tendons, bones and meridians, the internal organs of the human body will be adjusted accordingly, allowing the blood to flow smoothly and strengthening the body.

3. Cupping can also play a certain health-care role for local tissue damage, lumbar disc herniation and other symptoms. Long-term and regular cupping can relieve pain and alleviate symptoms. 4. The effect of stress relief: in the process of self-adjustment of the body, it can produce the effects of promoting qi and blood circulation, relaxing muscles and tendons, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and removing wind and dampness, which plays a benign stimulus and promotes the restoration of normal functions. 5. Warming effect: Cupping has a warming and stimulating effect on local skin, which is most obvious with large fire cups, water cups, and medicine cups. 6. Regulate the body's yin and yang balance: Due to the autohemolysis phenomenon after cupping, a histamine-like substance is produced, which circulates throughout the body with body fluids, stimulates various organs, and enhances their functional vitality, which helps to restore the body's functions.

Disadvantages of cupping

1. Damage to the skin Everyone should be more familiar with the operation and working principle of cupping. It mainly uses the cup and the skin to form a closed space, and then consumes the oxygen in the closed space through combustion, thereby reducing the pressure in the closed space. In this way, the blood in the body is sucked out through the pores. Nowadays, cupping sometimes does not use open flame combustion.

2. Easy to induce stroke. Traditionally, cupping is generally used for physical therapy. However, with the popularity of the weight loss trend, many people use cupping to lose weight. Experts especially remind that since the skin pores are in a dilated state after cupping, it is easy for the cold air in the external environment to enter the human body, thereby inducing a stroke.

3. Frequent cupping can easily cause skin infections. If you cupping frequently, you must prevent these unnecessary things. Frequent cupping can lead to skin infection. Many people think that cupping needs to be done for at least half an hour to be effective. Chinese medicine practitioners remind us that in fact, cupping varies according to the size, material, and intensity of negative pressure of the cup.

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