Does cupping help improve sexual performance?

Cupping is a medical method with a long history in traditional Chinese medicine. Cupping needs to be supplemented with corresponding medicinal materials to help the blood circulation of the human body, help the body relieve fatigue and relax the mind, and cupping the corresponding acupoints can actually help men improve their sexual performance. However, cupping also has its corresponding disadvantages, such as damaging the skin and making it easier to catch a cold.

The role of cupping

Since cupping can promote qi and blood circulation, dispel wind and cold, reduce swelling and relieve pain, it has a certain therapeutic effect on back muscle strain and lumbar disc herniation. Cupping can also be used on acupuncture points on the human body to treat headaches, dizziness, swollen eyes, coughs, asthma, abdominal pain and other problems. Multiple cupping cups can be used at the same time. Cupping can expel cold and dampness, dredge meridians, remove stagnation, promote qi and blood circulation, reduce swelling and relieve pain, remove toxins and reduce heat. It has the function of adjusting the body's yin and yang balance, relieving fatigue, and strengthening the physical body, thereby achieving the purpose of strengthening the body and eliminating evil and curing diseases. Therefore, many diseases can be treated with cupping therapy. The specific functions are as follows:

1. Balance yin and yang. When Yang is excessive, it is hot; when Yin is excessive, it is cold. Fever is a manifestation of excessive Yang Qi, while chills and aversion to cold are symptoms of excessive Yin Qi. Cupping at Dazhui can treat fever diseases, while cupping at Guanyuan can treat cold diseases.

2. Harmonize the internal organs. Cupping therapy creates negative pressure on the meridians and acupoints to cause congestion, blood stasis and other changes in the acupoints on the surface of the body. The acupoints are connected to the internal organs through the meridians, thereby treating various internal organ diseases.

3. Clear the meridians. Cupping therapy stimulates the acupuncture points and the skin of the meridians through its warm mechanical stimulation and negative pressure suction effect. The acupuncture points and the skin of the meridians are closely connected with the meridians. Therefore, cupping can dredge the meridians, harmonize the Ying and Wei, remove various pathogenic evil spirits in the meridians, promote the smooth flow of Qi and blood, nourish and open the tendons, veins and joints, and thus treat various diseases.

4. Assist in diagnosis. By observing all the changes on the body surface after cupping, we can infer the nature and location of the disease and its relationship with the internal organs.

5. Eliminate pathogenic factors. Cupping therapy uses negative pressure to suck the acupuncture points on the body surface, which can not only open the pores and dispel wind and cold, but also adjust the functions of the internal organs and meridians, invigorate the body's positive energy, and help expel evil spirits from the body.

6. Two-way adjustment. When the clinical acupoint selection and cupping methods remain unchanged, cupping therapy has a bidirectional benign regulatory effect.

Health benefits

1. Cupping therapy for cough

The main acupoints are Chuan point and Feishu point; Fengmen point is used for wind-cold cough; Dazhui point is used for wind-heat cough. Use the flash cupping method and leave the cup for 8 to 10 minutes (for younger children, the negative pressure in the cup should be small, as excessive negative pressure can easily damage the child's skin). Children can also use the flash cupping method, once a day, and 3 to 5 times as a course of treatment.

2. Cupping therapy for neck and shoulder syndrome

The patient lies in prone position, and the doctor applies appropriate amount of herbal oil on the skin of the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the outer upper edge of the trapezius muscle in the neck and shoulders that are sore, numb, and painful. The doctor then attaches the cupping jar to the skin and pushes the cupping jar back and forth on the affected area until purple-red or purple-black spots appear on the local skin. After moving the cupping needle, use a three-edged needle to prick the sha points locally, select a fire cup with a moderate diameter and use the flash fire method to cupping the above-mentioned parts, leaving the cup for about 10 minutes, each place bleeds about 2 to 3 ml, once every other day, 5 times as a course of treatment.

3. Cupping therapy for knee arthritis

You can use the medicine cup therapy: put 15 grams each of Qianghuo, Duhuo, Saposhnikovia, Papaya, Mulberry Branch, Chuanduan, Achyranthes bidentata, Eucommia ulmoides, Artemisia selengensis, Millettia reticulata, Chuanxiong, and Angelica sinensis into a cloth bag, add water and boil for 5 minutes, then put a small bamboo cup into the medicine juice and boil for 10 minutes. When using, use tweezers to pick up the bamboo cup and knock it directly on the inner and outer knee pits and Heding point of the affected side for 15 minutes each time, once every other day, and 10 times as a course of treatment.