Learn about cupping and its five benefits

I believe everyone has heard of cupping. It is a traditional Chinese medicine health therapy that mainly treats acupuncture points or diseased parts of the human body to eliminate symptoms such as pain, indigestion, and stiff neck, but it cannot cure diseases. Therefore, when you encounter a disease, you still have to go to a regular hospital for treatment. So, what are the benefits of cupping? Cupping is not completely useless. It is still very helpful to human health. Let us take a closer look at the benefits of cupping.

So, what are the benefits of cupping?

There are many benefits of cupping. It can not only help regulate the body's immunity, promote blood circulation, and accelerate metabolism, but also relieve a lot of pain, absorb toxins and discharge pus. In short, cupping can bring many benefits to people, but we should not rely too much on cupping. Not all diseases can be treated with cupping. The benefits of cupping are as follows:

1. It can adjust the immune function and enhance one's own resistance. Because the blood stasis produced by cupping remains in the tissue gap, it can properly activate the body's immunity and has the ability to clear inflammatory substances. It is a benign self-training.

2. It can stretch the muscles, increase the pain threshold, and relieve soreness and fatigue. That is, when the muscles are in a tense state, the local blood perfusion will decrease, which will cause tissue ischemia. However, the moving cupping technique in cupping can stretch the muscles, increase blood perfusion, and increase the local pain threshold, thereby relaxing the muscles and re-storing the required energy.

3. It can promote blood circulation and speed up metabolism. This is because cupping can dilate blood vessels, improve local blood circulation, and thus accelerate the excretion of waste and toxins from the body. It also improves the nutritional status of local tissues and provides more nutrients and oxygen to cells.

4. It can transmit sensations along the meridians and adjust the functions of the internal organs of the human body. This is based on the theory that the meridians connect the internal organs. The meridians related to the internal organs are selected for cupping stimulation. It is suitable to use techniques such as back and forth cupping and sliding cupping. These techniques can have corresponding sensory effects on respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular, gynecological diseases, etc., and sensory stimulation helps to achieve the adjustment of internal functions.

5. It can absorb toxins and discharge pus, promote wound healing. The negative pressure of cupping will help discharge local pus, toxins produced by bacteria and other substances that are not conducive to wound healing. It can also stimulate the growth of granulation tissue and shrink the wound, thereby achieving the purpose of promoting wound healing.

In short, cupping has many benefits, but it is not a panacea, so don’t rely on cupping just because you feel uncomfortable. If you find symptoms of illness, you should go to a regular professional hospital for examination and treatment. Do not use cupping to treat all diseases, which will delay the standardized treatment of the disease and cause harm.