Is regular cupping good for your health?

There are many ways to maintain health, and cupping is one of the more common ones. Studies have found that regular cupping has many benefits for the body, including reducing stress, regulating the body's yin and yang balance, and expelling evil spirits, etc. However, doing it too frequently can also have negative effects, such as causing skin infections and easily inducing strokes.

1. The benefits of cupping on the body

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Cupping is also effective for local tissue damage, lumbar disc herniation and other symptoms. Long-term and regular cupping can relieve pain and alleviate symptoms.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

2. The effects of long-term cupping on the body

1. Frequent cupping can cause skin infection

Many people believe that cupping needs to be done for at least half an hour to be effective. However, Chinese medicine practitioners remind us that cupping actually varies according to the size, material, and intensity of negative pressure of the cup. However, it is generally advisable to take no more than ten minutes from lighting the fire and sliding the pot to opening the pot. Because the main principle of cupping is negative pressure rather than time. If the cupping time is too long under high negative pressure until blisters appear, it will not only damage the skin, but may also cause skin infection.

2. It is easy to catch a cold if you take a bath after cupping

You really have to pay attention to the order. You can cupping after taking a shower, but you must not take a shower immediately after cupping. After cupping, the skin is in a damaged state and is very fragile. Taking a bath at this time can easily cause skin damage and inflammation. If you take a cold shower, your skin will easily catch a cold because the pores are open. Therefore, you must not take a shower immediately after cupping.

3. Open pores can easily induce stroke

Cupping opens the pores of the skin and makes it dilated, so that moisture and congestion in the body will be sucked out, but the cold air from the outside will also enter the body through the dilated pores, causing a cold and may even induce a stroke in severe cases. Therefore, avoid taking a cold shower after cupping, and keep your body warm in time to prevent the invasion of cold air.