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When can't cupping?
1, skin allergy, ulcer, edema and large blood vessels, not suitable for cupping. Cupping is also not suitable for people with febrile convulsions and pregnant women's abdomen, lumbosacral region.

2. People with weak constitution are not suitable for cupping. People who are weak have insufficient yang in their bodies. Cupping again will lead to more yang deficiency, which will even destroy the balance of yin and yang. Therefore, the body is weak and the yang is insufficient. Try not to consider cupping.

3. Patients with basic lung diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, tuberculosis, lung abscess and bronchiectasis, are not suitable for cupping.

Pulmonary inflammation is usually accompanied by alveolar injury or pulmonary fluid retention. If cupping is used, the pressure in the chest cavity will change sharply, which will lead to the rupture of pulmonary bullae on the lung surface, thus causing spontaneous pneumothorax.

4. Cupping should not be done within 1 hour after meals, and the patient should be asked whether there is pain, burn or tightness during cupping. Cupping should take the local skin as reddish purple, and keep warm during cupping.

5, it is best not to cupping before and after drinking.

The main function of cupping is to regulate qi and blood. After alcohol enters the blood, it will paralyze the vascular movement center, respiratory center and surrounding blood vessels, and form methemoglobin, which will lead to a certain degree of blood pressure decline, which conflicts with the conditioning principle of cupping.

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