What are the benefits of cupping?

Cupping is a method of treatment in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and I believe that everyone will choose to use cupping to solve some minor ailments. As the name suggests, cupping uses a cup as a tool, uses fire to create a relative negative pressure inside the cup, and makes the cup adsorbed to the treatment area, generating warm stimulation and local skin congestion, so as to achieve the purpose of treating the disease. It is a physical therapy, so traditional cupping can treat many diseases.

Cupping has a long history:

In ancient times, it was called "jiaofa"

As early as more than 2,000 years ago, there were records of ancient people using "animal horns" to make pots to treat diseases. In the Tang Dynasty, cupping tools underwent breakthrough improvements and developed into today's water jars and medicine jars, greatly enriching the content of cupping therapy. In the Ming Dynasty, cupping has become one of the important external treatment methods in traditional Chinese medicine surgery. Pottery jars and "fire cups" appeared in the Qing Dynasty. Cupping method uses suction to pull acupuncture points to enhance the therapeutic effect. The treatment scope has developed from surgery to the treatment of various internal medicine diseases.

Cupping materials: gradually improved from animal horns to bamboo jars, pottery jars, glass jars, etc.

Cupping method: from boiling water to exhaust to burning fire to exhaust

Clinical treatment: From the simple suction of pus and blood, suction of toxins and drainage of pus to treat surgical sores and ulcers to the treatment of external and internal injuries such as cold arthritis and asthenia and wheezing.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cupping has the effects of promoting qi and relieving pain, dispelling wind and cold, regulating the deficiency and excess of internal organs, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

Modern medicine believes that:

Cupping has the effect of improving the body's disease resistance.

Cupping can promote the metabolism of cell tissue and blood circulation.

Cupping can enhance the circulation of lymph in the human body and promote gastrointestinal motility.

Cupping can speed up the elimination of metabolic products from muscles and organs.

Cupping has the effect of regulating the function of the nervous system.

It is important to prevent cupping when cupping someone. Once the patient experiences dizziness, chest tightness, etc., you must pay attention, otherwise he may suffer from momentary loss of consciousness. Before cupping, it is best to relieve the patient's nervousness, which can also help prevent the patient from experiencing some discomfort during the process.