What are the advantages and disadvantages of cupping?

Cupping originated in China. Today, this health-care method has become popular in many countries around the world. Cupping can not only maintain health, but also help treat a variety of diseases. For example, it has a good effect on the well-known rheumatoid disease. However, there are many precautions for cupping. People who choose cupping must know its two sides. So what are the main advantages and disadvantages of cupping?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of cupping?

Benefits of Cupping

1. Dispel cold and dampness

Dispelling cold and removing dampness is one of the important benefits of cupping. Especially when you choose a cupping jar with better efficacy, it will make the skin warm, so that the accumulated moisture and cold air in the body can be quickly metabolized and discharged from the body through the skin, which can eliminate the evil spirits in the body as soon as possible. After cupping, people will feel relaxed all over and in a particularly good mood.

2. Promote blood circulation and activate collaterals

Cupping is often used by people in daily life and can also play an important role in dredging meridians and activating collaterals. Because the meridians and acupoints in the human body are interconnected, when people cupping, they will use external force to increase their activity, which can keep the meridians unobstructed, make human qi and blood flow smoothly, make the complexion rosy, and prevent some sub-health conditions from occurring.

3. Relieve pain

Relieving pain is also an important benefit of cupping. When people have joint pain, back pain, or cervical pain, they can cupping on the corresponding acupoints, which can improve the symptoms of pain. Because the theory of Chinese medicine is that if the qi and blood are unobstructed, there will be no pain. Cupping on the acupoints can make the qi and blood flow smoothly, and the pain caused by blood blockage and meridian obstruction can be alleviated.

Disadvantages of cupping:

Cupping has many benefits to the human body, but its disadvantages cannot be ignored. If the strength is not controlled well, it will damage the skin. If the cupping time is too short, it may cause bruises or redness and swelling on the skin. In severe cases, it may induce skin infection, which will directly endanger people's health.

Through cupping, the moisture and cold air in the body can penetrate out through the skin tissue, thereby eliminating evil spirits and making people feel more energetic.

Because the body's meridians, acupoints and internal organs are all interconnected, the external suction force will stimulate the acupoints on the body's surface, and then through the tendons, bones and meridians, the internal organs of the human body will be adjusted accordingly, allowing the blood to flow smoothly and the body to be strengthened.

Cupping is also effective for local tissue damage, lumbar disc herniation and other symptoms. Long-term and regular cupping can reduce pain and alleviate symptoms.