What are the benefits of bloodletting and cupping?

There are many ways of cupping, and bloodletting is one of them. Bloodletting and cupping are widely used in clinical practice. This method of cupping can also treat many diseases and is therefore highly praised by most people. Although self-cupping is very effective, you should not do it blindly. If you do it blindly, it may backfire.

1. Pain relief

The most prominent therapeutic effect of bloodletting and cupping therapy is pain relief. For example, the pain of neuralgia, joint pain, sciatica, cervical and lumbar pain, gout, colic caused by stones, severe pain from vasculitis, abdominal pain from appendicitis and other diseases can be significantly reduced or disappear after acupuncture and bloodletting. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "pain means obstruction". If the circulation of Qi and blood is abnormal, Qi stagnation and blood stasis occur, and the meridians are congested and blocked, pain will occur. Acupuncture and bloodletting can dredge the stagnant Qi and blood in the meridians, and change the pathological changes of Qi stagnation and blood stasis. “If the meridians are unblocked, there will be no pain.” When the Qi and blood in the meridians are unblocked, the pain can be eliminated.

2. Relieve heat

Bloodletting can reduce fever, and there are records of "removing heat and bleeding" in ancient medical books. There are many reasons for fever. Generally speaking, bloodletting and cupping treatment are more effective for exogenous fever and yang-excess fever. Bloodletting and cupping can promote the discharge of pathogenic heat or reduce the pathogenic heat in the blood, balance the yin and yang in the body and reduce fever. In the "Inner Canon of Medicine", there is a special chapter called "Treatment of Heat" which discusses the treatment of fever. For example, it says: "For patients with lung heat disease, they will first feel shivering, with hair standing up, aversion to wind and cold, yellow tongue, and fever. If the heat fights, they will have wheezing and coughing, pain in the chest and back, inability to sigh, unbearable headache, sweating and chills. Acupuncture the Taiyin and Yangming meridians will cause bleeding as big as a soybean, and the disease will heal immediately." It vividly describes the symptoms caused by exogenous evil and the remarkable effect of reducing fever and curing the disease after acupuncture and bloodletting.

3. Calmness

Bloodletting and cupping therapy has a calming and soothing effect. Clinical observation has shown that it is effective in treating manic schizophrenia, insomnia, hysteria, tetanus, epilepsy and other diseases. This effect may be achieved by regulating blood and qi, unblocking meridians, and harmonizing qi and blood in the internal organs, thereby restoring normal physiological functions.

4. Reduce swelling

Local swelling and pain in the limbs and limited mobility caused by trauma are mostly due to qi stagnation, blood stasis and meridian obstruction. Acupuncture, bloodletting and cupping can dredge the stagnant Qi and blood in the meridians, “remove the stagnant Qi and blood”, so that the Qi and blood in the local injured area can flow smoothly, and the swelling and pain will naturally be eliminated. According to clinical observations, acupuncture and bloodletting are effective in treating both new and old injuries.

5. First aid

The emergency treatment effects of bloodletting and cupping have always been valued by ancient doctors and are also widely spread among the people. For acute illnesses such as heat stroke, convulsions, sha syndrome, coma, high blood pressure, and snake bites, the danger can often be immediately relieved after treatment with acupuncture and bloodletting.