Cupping therapy is a therapeutic method that cupping is used as a tool to make cupping adsorbed on the skin surface of acupoints or parts to be pulled with the help of heat, resulting in local congestion or blood stasis. The so-called blood stasis is caused by the pressure difference between inside and outside when cupping, not because there is a lot of garbage in your body. Some people who pull blood stasis are of low quality. When patients are pricked with needles, they are basically disinfected with alcohol, which is easy to cause wound infection. About cupping, not everyone can learn it, and there are still many requirements.
"Cupping" is a common name for cupping therapy, also known as "cupping" or "straw". So many diseases can be treated by cupping therapy. For example, when people reach middle age, muscle soreness is very common. According to the interpretation of traditional Chinese medicine, it is mostly rheumatism. When cupping, the cupping mouth can cover the affected part, which can slowly suck out the water in the focus and promote local blood circulation at the same time, so as to achieve the purpose of relieving pain and restoring function, thus treating rheumatism, joint pain, muscle soreness and other discomfort.
Cupping can promote qi and blood circulation, dispel wind and cold, reduce swelling and relieve pain, so it has a certain therapeutic effect on lumbar muscle strain and lumbar disc herniation. Teacher Diao also introduced that cupping can also be used on human acupoints to treat headache, dizziness, eye swelling, cough, asthma, abdominal pain and other diseases, and cupping can be performed many times at the same time.
Since it is a professional treatment, cupping is certainly not simple. If you do cupping at home regardless of the willy-nilly, it is easy to cause danger, and there are many cupping accidents in your life. If you apply acupuncture points at will, it will sometimes backfire. First of all, pay attention to material selection. Bamboo tube for traditional Chinese medicine. If you can't find it, you can use glass bottles and ceramic cups, but the mouth must be thick and smooth, so as not to hurt the flesh because the mouth of the cupping jar is too thin. The bottom is preferably a wide semicircle.
1. The skin in the cupping area should be smooth and the muscles should be plump. It's best to wash and dry first.
2. If you dip a cotton swab or cotton ball in alcohol or use liquid alcohol, don't use too much alcohol, and be careful not to heat the jar mouth when burning, so as not to burn local skin.
3. Cupping is generally not suitable for parts with prominent bones, parts with rich blood vessels, and parts such as apical pulsation and breasts. 4. Cupping can stimulate the skin mechanically, affect the cerebral cortex reflexively and activate the meridians. The types of cupping are congestive cupping (skin flushing after cupping), blood stasis cupping (subcutaneous bleeding after cupping, purple spots or spots on the skin) and temple cupping with cold and headache. Bronchitis and asthma can be cupped in the back of Shu Fei.
5. According to the situation of cupping, it is generally to take turns to take acupuncture points, and it should not be too much at a time. When the local blood stasis has not subsided, cupping should not be repeated in the original position.
6. During cupping, don't move your body position to avoid cupping falling off.
7. Pay attention to heat preservation when cupping to prevent catching cold in the wind.
8. Prevent burns or scalds. If you have local burns, you can apply drugs such as gentian violet. When local blisters appear, small ones do not need to be treated, and can be disinfected and bandaged; For large ones, after disinfection, use sterile empty needle to suck out the effusion, keep the blister membrane, and then apply cool oil, or cover with vaseline gauze and dressing, or use rhubarb, Sanguisorba officinalis and mirabilite in equal parts, grind them into fine powder, and apply ointment with sesame oil.