In daily life, cupping and moxibustion are two common ways of health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine, which can play a very good role and are deeply loved by people. So can cupping and moxibustion be done together? Under normal circumstances, cupping and moxibustion can be done together, but moxibustion and cupping cannot be done in the same place, otherwise it will easily irritate the skin and cause physical discomfort. Let's take a closer look!

1. Can cupping and moxibustion be done together?

Cupping and moxibustion can be done together.

If cupping moxibustion is used correctly, it can promote each other and work together. However, it should be noted that cupping and moxibustion cannot be carried out in the same place.

2. the benefits of doing it together

Cupping mainly acts on the skin surface and indirectly regulates the balance of five internal organs through meridians, so it has great limitations. Moxibustion uses the pure positivity of wormwood. When moxibustion tests acupoints, it can open channels and collaterals, penetrate the five internal organs, directly warm the human body and adjust the balance of yin and yang. After cupping, the pores are opened. Moxibustion can make drugs penetrate the skin better, conduct along the meridians, act on the affected area, keep healthy and prevent diseases.

3. The health principle of cupping.

Cupping mainly uses various cans as utensils, and uses the heat generated by burning and other methods to exhaust the air in the cans to create negative pressure, so that it can be sucked on meridians, acupoints, affected parts or some parts, so that the skin of the pulled parts will appear congestion, congestion or blistering, thus achieving the purpose of treating diseases.

4. Health care principle of moxibustion.

Moxibustion is to burn and iron moxa sticks or other drugs on the acupuncture points on the body surface. With the help of the slight heat of moxibustion fire and the action of drugs, it can warm and replenish qi and blood, strengthen the body resistance and eliminate evil, make local skin hyperemia, dilate capillaries, enhance local blood circulation and lymphatic circulation, and enhance the metabolic ability of skin tissue, thus achieving the purposes of treating diseases and preventing health care.

5, first moxibustion or cupping

Generally speaking, cupping first, then moxibustion. Cupping is to stimulate meridian points or affected areas, so that wind, cold, dampness and other pathogens around the affected areas gather, so that skin pores are opened, and then moxibustion is used to warm up, so as to better discharge the pathogens in the body. If you are an angry crowd, you can also moxibustion first and then cupping, which can put out the fire.