Cupping for health preservation is a method of health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine. With cupping as a tool, negative pressure is formed in cupping by burning, so that it can be adsorbed on acupuncture points or affected areas on the body surface, forming local congestion or congestion, thus achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases and strengthening the body.
Cupping therapy, called "angle therapy" in ancient times, is a unique health care method with Chinese medicine characteristics, which has the characteristics of simple operation, easy acquisition of materials, quick effect, safety and reliability. "Su Wen Pi Bu Lun" says: "the twelve meridians's human skin is also the beginning of all diseases, and it must precede fur." Twelve skins are closely related to meridians and viscera. Stimulating skin by cupping and acting on viscera through meridians can adjust the function of viscera, dredge meridians and activate bones and muscles, which has a good effect on regulating sub-health, preserving health, beautifying and shaping.
? Cupping for health:
1, dredging meridians and dredging collaterals
Meridian is the channel of human qi and blood. When diseases occur in human body, the functions of meridians and qi and blood are out of balance, resulting in pathological changes such as qi stagnation and blood stasis, impassability of meridians and collaterals, and pain due to impassability. Cupping can stimulate and adjust the qi of channels and collaterals, dredge channels and collaterals, and affect the function of zang-fu organs through the channel system, so that all channels and collaterals are dredged and all zang-fu organs are at peace.
2, qi and blood circulation
Qi and blood are the material basis of human physiological activities. Abnormal qi and blood will inevitably affect various physiological functions of the body and lead to diseases. Cupping can make local tissues hyperemia and skin hyperemia slightly through the warm and negative pressure on human body, promote the smoothness of channels and collaterals, and invigorate qi and blood, and has the functions of dredging qi and blood and harmonizing qi and blood.
3. Dispel wind and cold
Cupping can stimulate the qi of meridians, replenish the weak viscera function and improve the body's disease resistance; At the same time, wind, cold, dampness and blood stasis can be excreted by suction, which plays a role in dredging meridians and qi and blood, strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil spirits.
According to modern medicine, cupping can enhance the phagocytosis of white blood cells and reticuloendothelial system, regulate humoral immune dysfunction in two ways, and enhance the body's disease resistance. Acupuncture and cupping can give mechanical stimulation to local blood vessels, dilate local blood vessels, improve blood supply, promote metabolism and regulate viscera function, thus effectively preventing diseases. The negative pressure mechanical stimulation of cupping can rupture local capillaries and change their permeability, thus causing congestion. It is a benign stimulus to the body, which can excrete the metabolites in the body, improve hypoxia and restore the body. Negative pressure stimulation and warm stimulation during cupping can also be transmitted to the central nervous system through skin receptors and vascular reflectors, resulting in reflective excitement, regulating the excitement and inhibition center of cerebral cortex, making it tend to be balanced, thus restoring the body to health.
? Common cupping instruments:
1, glass jar
2. Bamboo pot
3. Pottery pot
4. Air extraction tank
? cupping therapy
1, suction method:
It can be divided into cupping method, air extraction method and water tank method.
2. Application method:
The usage methods include: leaving cans, flashing cans, moving cans (also known as cans) and medicine cans.
3. Take cans:
When taking the can, hold the can with your left hand, and press the skin at the mouth of the can with your right hand, so that air can enter the can and the can can be loosened. Don't pull or rotate hard, so as not to damage the skin.
? Common acupoints for cupping and health preservation:
Cupping at 1, Beishu (* * 12), Beishu and other points can dredge the meridians and qi and blood of the five internal organs, regulate the physiological functions of the five internal organs, and promote the qi and blood circulation of the whole body, which is a common point for cupping for health preservation.
2. Yongquan
Cupping at Yongquan point can expel damp, toxic and turbid qi in the body, dredge the kidney meridian and make the kidney qi exuberant. Compatibility with Zusanli can make the human body full of energy and delay aging.
3. Sanyinjiao
4. Zusanli
5. Guan yuan
6, big cone
? Precautions for cupping health care:
Different parts should be selected according to different health care needs, and appropriate cupping tools and cupping methods should be selected. When cupping, you should choose the appropriate posture and muscle parts, and cupping is not suitable for precordial area, tender skin, broken skin, traumatic fracture, large blood vessels on the body surface, skin scar, nipple, bone protrusion and other parts. Avoid burns when using cupping. If you burn or leave the can for too long and your skin blisters, you should deal with it in time. If the area is small, only apply nail polish solution, keep local dry, sanitary and clean to prevent scratches. When the blister is large, drain the water with a disinfectant needle, then coat it with purple liquid or wrap it with permanent sterile gauze to prevent infection. The time interval of cupping depends on the specific situation, and the weak can be cupped every 2 ~ 3 days. Daily continuous cupping, pay attention to rotating cupping parts. When cupping, the patient's reaction should be closely observed, and if there is dizziness, it should be handled in time.
In any of the following circumstances, cupping therapy should be prohibited or used with caution:
1, serious skin allergy or skin scabies and other infectious diseases should not be bottled.
2. Patients with severe heart disease, heart failure, respiratory failure, active tuberculosis, bleeding tendency and severe edema should not be cup holders.
3. Severe nervousness, general convulsion, mania, which is not in line with the author's statement and is not suitable for cupping.
4, women should not be cupping during menstruation.
5, pregnant women's abdomen, lumbosacral and breast should not be cupping, pulling other parts, and the technique should be gentle.
Postscript: (to be continued)