The role and efficacy of cupping for weight loss

Is cupping effective for weight loss? Is cupping reliable for weight loss? What are the effects of cupping for weight loss? Let's take a look.

1. Promote blood circulation throughout the body

By exhausting air to create negative pressure inside the cup, the edge of the cup can adhere tightly to the skin surface, pulling the nerves, muscles, blood vessels and subcutaneous glands, which can cause a series of nervous and endocrine system reactions, regulate vasoconstriction and permeability of blood vessel walls, and thus improve blood circulation throughout the body.

2. Eliminate toxins from the body

The powerful suction force of the negative pressure of cupping can fully open the sweat pores, stimulate and enhance the functions of the sweat glands and sebaceous glands, and cause aging cells on the surface of the skin to fall off, thereby accelerating the discharge of toxins and waste from the body.

3. Warming effect

When the human body is invaded or injured by external factors such as wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, and fire (the six evil spirits), the normal physiological functions of the internal organs will be disrupted, resulting in blood stasis, qi stagnation, phlegm, food stagnation, turbid water, and evil fire. These pathogenic factors travel throughout the body through the human meridians and fill the acupuncture points on the meridians, disrupting the circulation of qi and blood and causing them to stagnate. Cupping can eliminate the six evil spirits in the human body, ventilate and promote blood circulation, relax the meridians and activate the collaterals. Its warming effect can dilate blood vessels, increase blood flow, and enhance the permeability of blood vessel walls.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cupping can dredge meridians, regulate qi and blood, and balance yin and yang. Meridians have the physiological functions of "circulating Qi and blood, nourishing 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 lead to various symptoms and skin problems such as weakness, obesity, spots, acne, wrinkles, dryness on the face, etc. Through the suction and pulling effect of cupping on the skin, pores, meridians and acupoints, it can guide the distribution of the Ying and Wei Qi, 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 body's Yin and Yang balance, and adjust the Qi and blood, thereby achieving the purpose of fitness, beauty, disease prevention and treatment.

4. The weight loss effect of cupping

The suction and pulling of local parts by the internal pressure of the cupping can dredge the meridians, balance qi and blood, adjust the endocrine system, accelerate the circulation of blood and lymph, promote gastrointestinal motility, thereby improving digestive function, accelerating the body's metabolism, increasing heat production and fat consumption, and reducing both surface fat and deep body fat, thereby achieving the goal of safe, healthy and rapid weight loss.