How often should the blood cup be removed?

Many people usually have the habit of cupping, but when you do it, you must choose an experienced doctor. It is best to go to a regular professional Chinese medicine hospital or a Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment center. If you go to an irregular place, it is easy to get infected with diseases, especially infectious diseases, which are not only not good for your health, but also affect your health. If you do cupping, how often is it better to do it?

How often should the blood cup be removed?

Once a week.

Cupping can dredge the meridians, dispel cold and eliminate toxins, but it is not suitable to be done every day. This will deplete your energy, increase the risk of skin infections, and easily lead to dependence, which is not good for your health.

Therefore, it is generally recommended to cupping at most once a week. If the skin lesions are severe, there are blisters, or the bruises have not subsided, you should wait until you have fully recovered before cupping treatment.

Warm tips: When using cupping to treat certain diseases, such as rheumatism, shoulder and neck pain, knee arthritis, etc., in order to enhance the therapeutic effect, cupping may be performed every day. This is okay in the short term, but it cannot be done for a long time.

Needle selection for cupping bloodletting therapy

1. Triangular needle: Made of stainless steel, it comes in two types: thick and thin. The needle tip has three edges on three sides and is very sharp. The thick needle is 7 to 10 cm long and the handle diameter is 2 mm. It is suitable for bloodletting on the limbs and trunk. The thin needle is 5 to 7 cm long and the handle diameter is 1 mm. It is suitable for bloodletting on the head, face, hands and feet.

2. Small eyebrow knife: 7 to 10 cm long, with a blade 1 cm long, very sharp.

3. If the above tools are not available temporarily, sewing needles, injection needles, porcelain pieces, razor blades, etc. can be used as substitutes.

The process of cupping bloodletting therapy

1. First, boil the needles for disinfection, and then perform routine disinfection on the operator's hands and the patient's bleeding site.

2. There are two commonly used bloodletting methods in clinical practice: pricking and cutting.

(1) Bloodletting: This method is divided into three types: point pricking, picking pricking, and cluster pricking. There are two types of pricking: quick pricking (aim at the bleeding site, quickly penetrate 1.5 to 3 mm, and then quickly withdraw to release a small amount of blood or mucus. This method is used more frequently and is suitable for most parts of the body) and slow pricking (slowly penetrate the vein 1 to 2 mm, slowly withdraw to release a small amount of blood. It is suitable for bloodletting in the popliteal fossa, elbow fossa, head and face). Picking pricking is when the needle penetrates the skin or vein, and then the needle body is tilted to prick the skin or vein to release blood or mucus. It is suitable for bloodletting in the chest, back, and dorsal auricular veins. Cluster pricking is to use a cluster of needles to perform tapping pricking at certain locations, with more prickings and shallow penetration, with blood oozing out as the standard. It is suitable for sprains, hair loss, skin diseases, etc. Cupping therapy is often used in conjunction with it.

(2) Cutting method: Small eyebrow knives or other knives are often used. The knife should be held in a way that is convenient for operation, so that the blade is roughly perpendicular to the cutting area, and then the knife is moved in to cut. Suitable for bloodletting in the oral cavity lining, dorsal auricular vein, etc.

3. While using the right hand to prick or cut to let blood, the other hand can perform auxiliary actions such as lifting, pinching, pushing, and pressing to cooperate with the bloodletting.