In an interview with Guangming Daily, Wang Jing, an expert on cultural science of traditional Chinese medicine in state administration of traditional chinese medicine and deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that cupping can strengthen the functions of sweat glands and sebaceous glands and expel "waste gas" from body tissues and blood.

Strengthen the gas exchange of local tissues, thus accelerating the discharge of wastes and toxins in the body; It can also cause local skin congestion, telangiectasia and accelerate the blood circulation of the body.

In addition, cupping can rupture the capillaries in the adsorbed parts, causing local blood coagulation and hemolysis, and then produce a histamine-like stimulant, which will flow all over the body with body fluids, stimulate the tissues and organs of the body and enhance their functional activities.

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Precautions for cupping:

1, not everyone is suitable for cupping.

Patients with bleeding-prone diseases, edema, skin injury and ulceration are not suitable for cupping, and friends who are too thin do not necessarily like cupping, because too thin muscles will cause the can to be unable to adsorb. In addition, the distribution of large blood vessels and scars are not suitable for cupping.

2, not cupping, the longer the better.

Some patients have a lot of blisters at cupping, and even say that this is pulling out "wet evil", as if they are still enjoying it. This understanding is actually a misunderstanding. In fact, cupping for a long time leads to the separation of epidermis and dermis, which is not worth advocating, especially in summer, once the blisters burst, it is easy to cause infection.

3. Cupping is not a purple seal.

The purple mark of cupping appears like this: negative pressure suction during cupping will lead to a rapid increase in blood perfusion, which will lead to rapid passive dilation of blood vessels in this area. Most of these dilated blood vessels are tiny capillaries, and for the elderly or people who lack exercise, the fragility of surface capillaries may increase.

In this way, when blood flows in quickly, it will cause some capillaries to rupture, which will lead to subcutaneous bleeding. This is the truth of the formation of purple marks. So it doesn't matter whether there is purple print or not, but it doesn't have to be investigated. This mark usually fades automatically in a week or so.

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