What are the symptoms of red cupping

Nowadays, Chinese medicine health care has been praised by many people. In addition, Chinese medicine health care does not require taking a lot of medicines, but only requires paying attention to appropriate control of daily diet. This is loved by many people. Cupping is the most common method of Chinese medicine therapy. Now even some beauty salons have introduced Chinese medicine cupping technology. So what are the symptoms if the cupping turns red?

First of all, if you are cupping at home, we generally recommend leaving the cup in for 10-15 minutes.

Suggestions: Check if you have kept the cupping for too long. If your skin is sensitive, it is recommended to reduce the cupping time to 8 minutes. If it still doesn’t work, it is recommended not to keep the cupping and try moving the cupping. This is just a skin allergy, it's okay. Cupping should not be done too frequently, once every 1-2 weeks is sufficient.

Cupping is a therapy that uses a cup as a tool and utilizes methods such as burning fire and pumping air to create negative pressure, causing the cup to adsorb onto the body surface, causing local blood stasis, in order to achieve the effects of dredging meridians, promoting qi and blood circulation, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and dispelling wind and cold. Cupping therapy has a long history in China. As early as in the silk book "Fifty-two Prescriptions for Diseases" written in the Western Han Dynasty, there were records about "horn method", which is similar to the fire cupping therapy in later generations. Cupping therapy was also popular in ancient Greece and Rome.

Clinical Application

1. Cupping method

Key points of the flash fire method: Use tweezers to hold the alcohol cotton ball and light it, then circle it inside the can and then pull it out; quickly place the can over the area to be pulled out, and it will be sucked.

2. Application of cupping

(1) Cupping: After the cup is adsorbed on the body surface, it is suctioned and left in the treatment area, usually for 5 to 10 minutes. It is often used for wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain.

(2) Apply linseed oil to the cupping jar. After the cup is sucked, hold the bottom of the cup with your hand and push and pull it up and down several times until the skin flushes. It is used for large areas with thick muscles, such as the waist and back. It is mostly used for colds, coughs and other diseases.

(3) After the flash cup is pulled out, take it off immediately and repeat the process several times until the skin becomes flushed. It is mostly used for facial paralysis.

(4) Blood-pricking and cupping: First, use a plum blossom needle or a three-edged needle to tap or prick the local area to cause bleeding; then cupping is performed to cause 3 to 5 ml of bleeding inside the cup; this is often used to treat skin diseases such as acne.

3. Cupping precautions

(1) Operation taboos: When cupping, do not burn the cup mouth with fire, otherwise it will burn the skin; the cupping time should not exceed 20 minutes, otherwise it will damage the skin.

(2) Cupping is not suitable for areas with skin allergies, ulcers, edema, the heart, large blood vessels, and the lower abdomen.