Cupping and scraping

Cupping and scraping are both very common methods of regulating people's bodies in daily life nowadays. They have many effects, such as effectively relieving the pain caused by shoulder spondylitis and cervical spondylosis, helping the body regulate qi and blood and eliminate dampness and heat, etc. Many people have great doubts about which is better, cupping or scraping. So let's introduce in detail which is better, cupping or scraping?

Cupping or scraping, which is better?

Cupping and scraping are both external adjustment methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Each of the two therapies has its own advantages and disadvantages, but they also have similarities.

For example, scraping is more effective and detailed in dredging meridians than cupping, while the warming effect of cupping is better than scraping and can better combat some pain caused by wind-cold symptoms and stagnation of cold and dampness. The two methods are more effective when used together.

The effects of cupping therapy

Activating Qi and Blood Circulation

Using cups as instruments, the heat from combustion is used to expel the air inside to generate negative pressure, causing it to adhere to the skin and cause blood stasis on the skin of the area being cupped. Cupping works by adsorbing the skin surface to unblock meridians, promote the flow of qi and blood, disperse blood stasis, eliminate stagnation and astringency, and allow qi and blood to flow unimpeded throughout the body, thereby alleviating or eliminating local pain.

Unblock meridians

Through the adsorption effect of cupping, the acupuncture points and meridians blocked by the corresponding diseases can be opened, and Qi and blood can flow. Therefore, using cupping to dredge the meridians can treat painful symptoms such as cervical spondylosis, periarthritis of the shoulder, low back pain and leg pain.

Dispel the exterior pathogens

Through the local cupping adsorption effect, the local capillaries are dilated, the pores of the skin are opened, and sweating occurs, which is beneficial to dispersing external pathogens and excreting metabolic wastes in the body, such as lactic acid in the muscles, so that the pathogens on the surface of the body are dispersed from the surface.

Strengthen the body

Cupping can cause the capillaries in the adsorption area to rupture, followed by local blood coagulation, but it will soon collapse and cause autohemolysis. Then a new stimulant, a substance similar to histamine, will be produced, which circulates throughout the body with body fluids, stimulates tissues and organs throughout the body, enhances their functional activities, and improves the body's disease resistance.

The effects of scraping therapy

Activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis

Once the muscles, ligaments and bones of the human body are injured, blood stasis will occur locally, which will make the blood circulation of qi and blood in the meridians obstructed. If the blood stasis is not eliminated, the pain will not stop. At this time, scraping the local area or the corresponding acupoints can eliminate the blood stasis, generate new blood, unblock the meridians, and circulate qi and blood, achieving the purpose of no pain when the meridians are unblocked. This is the effect of scraping to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

Clears away heat and reduces swelling

According to the principle of "get rid of heat quickly" in traditional Chinese medicine, the scraping technique is used to stimulate the heat to expel it quickly, achieving the purpose of clearing away heat, allowing the internal yang heat to penetrate the body surface and eventually be expelled from the body to clear the stagnant heat and swelling in the body.

Expectorant and antispasmodic, soft and stagnation-dispersing

For the lumps on the body surface caused by phlegm and dampness, and wind syndrome, scraping and releasing sha can be used to treat them, which can unclog the pores, eliminate phlegm, heat, pus and toxins, and have obvious effects in stopping spasms and dispersing nodules.

Strengthen the body and eliminate evil

After scraping treatment, blue and purple congested sha marks will appear on the skin of the corresponding acupoints, so that the pores can be opened and unblocked, and various evil spirits such as wind, cold, phlegm, dampness, blood stasis, heat, pus, etc. that are stagnant in the meridian acupoints and corresponding tissues and organs can be penetrated to the outside through the skin and fur, so that the meridians can be unblocked; in addition, when the body's positive energy is deficient, external evils can easily take advantage of the opportunity to enter. By scraping the relevant acupoints with the method of tonifying the deficiency and purging the excess, the functions of the weak internal organs can be enhanced, resisting the external evils, and restoring the body to normal.