What are the advantages and disadvantages of cupping?

Everyone may have heard about the advantages and disadvantages of cupping in life. It can help us relieve stress better and regulate the body's yin and yang balance. However, we should also pay attention that cupping can easily lead to skin infections or colds after catching a cold.

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. The effect of stress relief

In the process of the body's self-adjustment, it produces the effects of promoting qi and blood circulation, relaxing muscles and tendons, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and removing wind and dampness, acting as a benign stimulus to promote the recovery of normal functions.

4. 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.

5. 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.