What are the essentials of cupping?

Cupping is a method of treating diseases in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Cupping has very good therapeutic effects on certain diseases. As long as the patient can use the cupping method correctly, the symptoms of the disease can be treated very well. So it is very important to master the essentials of cupping correctly. So what are the essentials of cupping? Let us introduce it to you in detail below.

Cupping therapy is a treatment method that uses cups as tools and utilizes methods such as burning and squeezing to expel the air inside the cups, creating negative pressure, allowing the cups to adsorb to specific parts of the body surface (affected areas, acupuncture points), producing widespread stimulation, and forming local congestion or congestion, thereby achieving the purpose of preventing and curing diseases and strengthening the body. Cupping, like acupuncture, is also a form of physical therapy, and it is one of the best physical therapies. The same applies to children. It is also called "cupping". There are cupping jars, gas tanks, etc.

Cupping therapy is also known as "fire cupping" 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. Ancient doctors used it to absorb blood and drain pus when treating sores and abscesses, and later expanded its application to internal diseases such as tuberculosis and rheumatism. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, cupping therapy has made new developments due to continuous improvement of methods, further expanding the scope of treatment and becoming an important treatment in acupuncture.

Principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Cupping Chinese medicine believes that cupping can open the pores, strengthen the body and eliminate evil. Diseases are caused by pathogenic factors that lead to the imbalance of yin and yang in the body, abnormal rise and fall of qi and blood in the human body, and disorder of qi and blood functions of internal organs. When the human body is attacked by wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, fire, poison, external trauma or internal emotional injury, it can lead to organ dysfunction and produce pathological products, such as blood stasis, qi stagnation, phlegm, food stagnation, turbid water, and evil fire. These pathological products are also pathogenic factors, which travel through the body through the meridians and acupoints, disrupt the qi, retain it in the internal organs, block the meridians, and ultimately lead to various diseases. The vacuum negative pressure generated by cupping has a strong suction force, which acts on the meridian acupoints, can open the pores and make the skin congested, so that the pathological products in the body are sucked out of the body through the skin pores, thereby unblocking the meridians and blood, adjusting the functions of the internal organs, and achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cupping can dredge meridians and regulate qi and blood. Meridians have the physiological function of "circulating Qi and blood, nurturing Yin and Yang, strengthening tendons and bones, and benefiting joints". If the meridians are blocked, Qi will not flow smoothly and blood will stagnate, which may cause the skin, flesh, tendons, veins and joints to lack nourishment and atrophy and become unhealthy, or the blood circulation may not be nourished and the six internal organs may not function properly. Through the suction and pulling effect of cupping on the skin, pores, meridians and acupoints, it can guide the distribution of the Qi of the Nutrient and the Defense, stimulate the Qi and blood in the meridians, nourish the internal organs and tissues, warm the skin and fur, and at the same time invigorate the functions of the weak internal organs, unclog the meridians, adjust the balance of Yin and Yang in the body, and adjust the Qi and blood, thereby achieving the purpose of fitness, disease prevention and treatment.

Principles of Western Medicine

Modern medicine believes that the negative pressure formed inside the cup during cupping therapy causes local capillaries to become congested or even rupture, red blood cells to rupture, epidermal congestion to occur, and autohemolysis to occur. Histamine and histamine-like substances are then produced, which circulate throughout the body with body fluids, stimulate various organs, enhance their functional activities, and improve the body's resistance. Modern medicine believes that the stimulation of negative pressure from cupping can dilate local blood vessels, promote local blood circulation, improve congestion, enhance metabolism, change the nutritional status of local tissues, enhance the permeability of blood vessel walls and the phagocytic activity of white blood cells, and enhance the body's physical fitness and immunity. Modern medicine believes that the suction of local parts by the internal pressure of cupping can accelerate the circulation of blood and lymph, promote gastrointestinal motility, improve digestive function, and promote. Accelerate the elimination and excretion of metabolic products by muscles and organs.

It is very important to master the essentials of cupping. Only after mastering the correct techniques of cupping can we avoid making mistakes when treating diseases and causing burns or scalds to the body. In addition, mastering the correct techniques of cupping can help treat diseases better and reduce the pain of the body. It is very meaningful for treating diseases.