1, which effect is better, cupping or scraping?
Cupping and scrapping are both external treatments of traditional Chinese medicine. The two therapies have their own advantages and disadvantages, but there are also similarities.
For example, the effect of scraping and dredging meridians is better and more detailed than cupping, while the warming effect of cupping is better than scraping, which can better resist some pains caused by wind-cold exterior syndrome and cold-dampness stagnation. The combination of the two methods is better.
2. The role of cupping therapy
(1) promoting qi and blood circulation
Taking the jar as a vessel, the air in it is discharged by the burning heat to produce negative pressure, which makes it adhere to the skin, leading to congestion in the pulled part. Cupping makes the channels and collaterals unobstructed, qi and blood accessible, blood stasis eliminated, the whole body qi and blood unobstructed, and local pain relieved or disappeared.
(2) dredge meridians
Through the adsorption of cupping, the acupoints and meridians blocked by corresponding diseases are opened, and qi and blood are reached. Therefore, cupping can be used to dredge channels and collaterals, which can treat cervical spondylosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, lumbago and leg pain and other pain symptoms.
(3) relieving exterior syndrome and eliminating pathogenic factors
Through local cupping and adsorption, local capillaries dilate, skin pores open and sweat, which is beneficial to dispersing exogenous pathogens, excreting metabolic wastes in the body, such as lactic acid in muscles, and dispersing exogenous pathogens from the body surface.
(4) strengthening the body resistance and consolidating the foundation
Cupping can rupture the capillaries at the adsorption site, and then cause local coagulation, but it will soon collapse, causing hemolysis at home, and then produce a new stimulant-histamine-like substance, which will flow all over the body with body fluids, stimulate the tissues and organs of the whole body, enhance its functional activities, and improve the body's disease resistance.
3. The role of scraping therapy
(1) Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Once the muscles, ligaments and bones of the human body are injured, there will be blood stasis locally, which will make the blood circulation in the meridians not smooth. Blood stasis does not go away, but the pain does not stop. At this time, scraping at local or corresponding acupoints can eliminate blood stasis, make new blood grow, make meridians and blood smooth, and achieve the purpose of painless general principles. This is the role of scraping, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
(2) clearing away heat and reducing swelling
According to the principle of "heat is disease" in traditional Chinese medicine, through the stimulation of scraping manipulation, the pathogenic heat can be induced out of the body to clear away heat, so that the pathogenic heat in Yang Can can penetrate the body surface and finally be discharged from the body, thus removing blood stasis and heat bloating in the body.
(3) Eliminating phlegm and relieving spasm
For the body surface lump and wind syndrome caused by phlegm-dampness, the method of removing phlegm by scraping can make phlegm heat fester and exogenous pathogenic factors, which has obvious antispasmodic and stagnation-resolving effects.
(4) strengthening body resistance and eliminating pathogenic factors
After scraping treatment, the skin of the corresponding acupoints will be bruised, so that the acupoints can be opened and dredged, and various pathogens such as wind, cold, phlegm, dampness, blood stasis, fire and poison stuck in the meridian acupoints and corresponding tissues and organs can penetrate from the fur to the outside, thus dredging the meridians; In addition, when the healthy qi of human body is insufficient, exogenous pathogens can easily take advantage of it. Wipe the relevant acupoints by tonifying deficiency and purging excess, strengthen the weak viscera function, resist external evil and restore the body to normal state.
4. Can cupping and scraping be done together?
Generally speaking, cupping and scraping can be done together. Scraping is mainly the superficial muscle layer, which can scrape to the place where cupping can't go, and can be better dredged in place, while cupping is more irritating, and the combination of the two is better.
But people with too weak qi and blood had better not do it together, because scraping and cupping are both methods, and cupping and scraping are easy to make the body weaker in the case of qi deficiency.
5. Cupping or scraping first
Cupping and scraping have similar functions, both of which are to expel cold, moisture or toxins from the body. Generally speaking, scraping first and then cupping. Although the two effects are similar, cupping has a deeper effect.
6. Where is eczema cupping?
Fixed points: Pishu, Yinlingquan, Zusanli and Sanyinjiao.
Acupoint selection: Yinlingquan is located in the depression of the lower edge of medial tibia condyle, 3 inches below the depression of knee flexion and lateral patellar ligament; Zusanli is located in the lateral finger of 1 outside the anterior tibial crest; Sanyinjiao is 3 inches above the high point of the medial malleolus and at the posterior edge of the medial tibia; Spleen Shu is under the spinous process of thoracic vertebra 1 1, and it is open laterally 1.5 inch.
Acupoint selection method: when looking for acupoints, put your right hand on your left leg and your left hand on your right leg, and move up along the tibia with the second joint of your index finger until there is a prominent oblique bone blocking it, and the fingertip is Zusanli; Sanyinjiao refers to four fingers crossing the high point of the medial malleolus and the posterior edge of the medial tibia; Yinlingquan is located in the depression of the lower edge of condyle at the high point of the medial tibia.