Where should I cupping when I have a cold and a headache?

When the temperature is unstable, it is easy to catch a cold. When you catch a cold, you will have symptoms such as coughing, headache, fear of cold and sweating. Colds can be treated with oral cold medicines. It is recommended to drink ginger soup regularly to prevent and treat colds. Some people have heard that cupping can be used to improve headaches caused by a cold. Where should you cupping when you have a headache caused by a cold? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Where should you cupping when you have a cold and a headache?

1. Choose the Dazhui acupoint, which is located on the midline of the back, in the depression below the spinous process of the 7th cervical vertebra. Fengmen is on the back, 1.5 inches lateral to the spinous process of the second thoracic vertebra. The sun is located in the depression about 1 inch back between the tip of the eyebrow and the outer canthus of the eye. Quchi is located at the lateral end of the elbow transverse line, at the midpoint of the line connecting Chize and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus when the elbow is flexed.

2. Use simple cupping method on Fengmen, Taiyang and Yintang acupoints, and leave the cups for 10 minutes. Taichong point should be pricked to cause bleeding, with slight bleeding as the limit. This should be done once a day, with 5 times constituting a course of treatment. In the blood-pricking and cupping method, only the spaces between the lines are pricked to cause bleeding without cupping. For other acupoints, cupping is applied after pricking for bleeding, and the cup is left on for 10 minutes. Take once a day, 5 times as a course of treatment.

2. What should I do if I have a cold and headache?

1. Considering that you have a viral cold, it is recommended that you try taking some Isatis root. This painkiller can also be used to treat headaches caused by colds. Colds can be treated with medicine or through traditional Chinese medicine methods, such as acupuncture, massage, cupping, etc.

2. Cupping therapy for headaches is effective in relieving symptoms, but the factors that cause headaches are complex and varied. If repeated cupping treatments are ineffective or symptoms worsen, other pathological factors should be considered and you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment to avoid delaying the disease.

3. Note

Cupping can certainly relieve headaches and other discomforts caused by colds, but it cannot cure colds. It also requires the body's own resistance, and you can take medicine or get injections if necessary. Cupping is beneficial to human health because it does not contain any chemical ingredients. It will just leave some temporary marks on the body. If you mind, it is recommended that you consider it carefully.