How to analyze cupping marks?

Everyone knows about cupping as a health-care and treatment method. It is a precious treasure left by our Chinese ancestors. Today, cupping has spread to many parts of the world. For example, many foreign athletes also often practice cupping, and it has been proven to be very effective. After cupping, there will definitely be cupping marks left on the skin. Everyone needs to learn the following knowledge about analyzing cupping marks.

Analysis of cupping marks:

Cupping is a long-standing method of medical treatment and health care in ancient times. It has a wide range of uses and is easy to operate. Modern people also like to use cupping for medical treatment and health care. Different cupping marks will be left on the back after cupping, and these different cupping marks can indicate the problems that exist in the body.

How does cupping remove diseases?

Cupping therapy mainly uses heat to expel the air in the cup, forming negative pressure so that the cup mouth is tightly sucked onto the treatment area, causing local congestion and thus producing a therapeutic effect.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that when the human body is invaded by external evil and internal injuries, it can lead to organ dysfunction, producing wastes such as blood stasis, qi stagnation, phlegm, food stagnation, turbid water, and evil fire, which are spread throughout the body through the meridians, hindering the smooth flow of qi and blood, and ultimately leading to various diseases.

The vacuum negative pressure generated by cupping has a strong suction force. If it covers the acupuncture points on the meridians, the negative pressure can open the pores and suck out waste from the body, thereby allowing the meridians to flow smoothly and the functions of the internal organs to return to normal, achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases. At the same time, cupping itself provides local thermal stimulation to the skin. The heat expands blood vessels, increases blood flow, makes blood circulation smoother, and gradually improves metabolism. More fresh blood provides adequate nutrition to tissues, thereby enhancing the disease resistance of internal organs.

Cupping mark diagnosis

Purple-black color - insufficient blood supply and accumulated cold.

Purple with black spots - poor blood circulation

Purple spots and blocks of varying shades - rheumatism

Bright red and with local fever - Yang syndrome, heat syndrome, excess syndrome, intense heat and toxicity, Yin deficiency, and excessive fire

Red and dark - thick blood lipids, high blood lipids, insufficient blood supply

Bruise or blood bubble grayish white, light color - deficiency cold, dampness

Slightly itchy skin - wind evil, dampness

Blisters, edema, dampness - cold syndrome, excessive dampness

Water drops in the jar - severe cold and dampness

Purple, dark red: Yin syndrome, cold syndrome, blood stasis

Flushing, reddish color - deficiency syndrome

The local area quickly returns to its original state - indicating that it will heal quickly

1. The cupping mark is tight, black and dark: It generally indicates blood stasis in the body, such as dysmenorrhea or insufficient blood supply to the heart. This mark will also appear if the affected area is severely cold. If the marks do not disappear after several days, it usually means that the disease has been going on for a long time and it will take a long time to cure. If large areas of black and purple marks appear when cupping, it indicates that a large area has been affected by the wind and cold and the treatment should be mainly symptomatic and cold-dispelling.

2. Purple marks from the cupping are accompanied by plaques, which generally indicates local cold and blood stasis.

3. The cupping marks appear as scattered purple dots of varying depths, generally indicating qi stagnation and blood stasis.

4. Pale purple skin with plaques generally indicates deficiency syndrome with blood stasis. If the spots are obvious at the acupoints, it indicates weakness of the related internal organs. For example, if they appear at the Shenshu acupoints, it indicates kidney deficiency.

5. The cupping mark is bright red, which generally indicates Yin deficiency or Qi and Yin deficiency. Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire may also occur.

6. The cupping marks are bright red and scattered. They usually appear after cupping over a large area. They do not protrude above the skin. If they are concentrated on a certain acupoint or its vicinity, it indicates that the internal organs related to this acupoint are abnormal or there is a disease.

7. After cupping or suction cupping, there are no cupping marks (or they are not obvious), or even if there are, they disappear immediately after the cupping is opened and the normal color is returned, indicating that the body is basically normal or the condition is still mild.

8. If blisters easily appear on the affected area after cupping, it indicates that there is a lot of moisture. If many small blisters appear on the affected area, it indicates that it is caused by moisture. To achieve an ideal therapeutic effect, multiple consecutive cupping treatments are needed.