Do I need to apply essential oil before cupping

Many people need to take a bath before cupping, because it is more conducive to the flow of toxins in the body, but they cannot take a bath after cupping, because it is particularly easy to cause wind exposure, which may cause the patient to catch a cold. When cupping, it is likely to cooperate with scraping. Scraping generally requires the application of some essential oils. So do you need to apply essential oils before cupping?

If it is the traditional fixed acupoint cupping method (that is, sucking and not moving, and removing the cup after about 15 minutes), no oil is needed;

If you are using the walking cupping method or the flash cupping (also called the ringing cupping) method, you must apply oil, otherwise the skin will be painful and uncomfortable.

Considering that the vacuum tank is mostly made of organic plastic and there is a rubber sealing ring at the air nozzle, which are afraid of oil, use less oil. For the latter two cupping methods, glass cupping is still the best choice.

To prevent the skin from sticking and causing uncomfortable feeling when removing the cup, you can apply some talcum powder on the skin before cupping, which is also effective.

Essential oil is only needed for scraping, but not for cupping. However, you should choose the right acupoints before cupping, and do not cup only the painful areas. The therapeutic effect will be better if you use a combination of acupoints.

After cupping, the local skin pores are in a dilated state. After wiping with alcohol, there will generally be no infection. AIDS is transmitted through sexual transmission, blood transmission, mother-to-child transmission, etc., and you will not be infected with AIDS under the current circumstances.

In this case, you will not be infected with AIDS, and no dirty things will enter inside, so don't worry, there will be no problem.

Cupping itself has the effect of dredging meridians and relieving pain, and Huoluo Oil is an external medicine that can dredge meridians.

In this case, the effects of the two can generally be added together, but be careful not to use too much oil and the cupping time should not be too long, otherwise subcutaneous ecchymosis will easily appear at the cupping site.