What should you pay attention to when cupping?

In daily life, we often perform Chinese medicine therapy. Especially when you are injured during sports, blood stasis often occurs in the body. At this time, cupping treatment is needed to clear the blood stasis in the body. Although cupping has therapeutic effects, there are many things to pay attention to before and after the treatment. So what should we pay attention to when cupping?

Cupping is not suitable when you are too full or too hungry

Experts point out that although cupping is simple, safe to use, and suitable for treating joint pain, muscle aches and other discomforts, it should be noted that there are many situations in which cupping is not suitable, such as people with heart disease, skin diseases and skin injuries, mental illness or neurosis, tuberculosis and various infectious diseases, various fractures, extreme weakness, excessive fatigue, pregnant women, women during menstruation, overeating, hunger, thirst, drunkenness, etc. Cupping should be used with caution or prohibited.

Do not take a bath immediately after cupping

People tend to sweat in the summer, and some people often get up and take a shower immediately after cupping. Experts remind that this often makes it easier to damage the skin and may even cause secondary colds.

After cupping, the skin is in a damaged state and is more sensitive and fragile. Taking a bath at this time can easily lead to skin damage, inflammation, etc. If you take a cold shower at this time, your skin with open pores will be more susceptible to cold. Therefore, you must not take a shower immediately after cupping.

Don't pull repeatedly at the same spot.

When using multiple cups, the distance between the cups should not be too close, otherwise the skin will be pulled by the cups and cause pain. In addition, the cups will repel each other and should not be pulled out firmly.

Some patients will cupping at the same place repeatedly to improve the treatment effect, which can easily cause skin redness, swelling, and damage. Therefore, it is not advisable to cupping at the same place before the cupping marks from the previous cupping have disappeared.

In the article, the editor introduces many things that need to be paid attention to when using cupping. Only after you have clearly understood the precautions of this treatment method can you better cooperate with the treatment and achieve better treatment results. In particular, you should not take a bath after acupuncture, sweat steaming, cupping, etc., so as to avoid catching a cold.