Function and efficacy of cupping
Cupping can dispel cold and dampness, dredge channels and collaterals, remove blood stasis and dissipate stagnation, promote qi and blood circulation, relieve swelling and pain, remove toxin and clear heat, regulate the balance of yin and yang, relieve fatigue and enhance physical fitness, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening the body resistance, eliminating pathogenic factors and treating diseases. Therefore, cupping is very good for people with excessive body moisture in summer.
In summer, people are prone to skin diseases, such as prickly heat and eczema, due to high temperature, excessive sweating and heavy rain. Therefore, you should always take a bath to wipe your sweat, keep your skin dry and avoid getting sick, so as not to affect cupping treatment. Generally speaking, you can take a bath that night after cupping, but don't wipe the cupping area with a towel or bath towel.
Cupping is one of the common health care treatment methods in many families, which has the effects of dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, relieving swelling and pain, detoxifying and purging heat, and has a good therapeutic effect on acute pain and muscle soreness caused by wind-cold-dampness arthralgia. However, most elderly people are weak, lack of liver and kidney, and lack of qi and blood, so cupping therapy is not suitable as a means of daily health preservation. Even middle-aged people who are in good health can't receive cupping treatment every day. Treat the disease every other day 1 time, and weekly preventive health care 1 time is more appropriate.
Cupping therapy is actually a purgative method. At the same time of cupping, the yang is easy to fall off because of loose skin. Therefore, frequent cupping regardless of physical fitness is easy to hurt vital qi, which makes patients lack self-defense ability, reduce their resistance, feel tired and afraid of cold, and even have symptoms such as backache, diarrhea and cold.
Experts suggest that it is best to use a vacuum tank for general family treatment, and pay attention to it when vacuuming, so as not to make the negative pressure too large; Cupping for 5 ~ 10 minutes each time is enough, and the elderly should closely observe their reactions; If blisters appear after cupping, they can be punctured with a sterile needle, coated with gentian violet liquid or traumatic oil and wrapped with sterile gauze to prevent infection.
Disadvantages of cupping
1, the time and interval of cupping should be well grasped. Some people often cupping because they enjoy the process, and as a result, their skin is seriously damaged, causing infection and serious skin bruises.
2. For some patients with inflammatory or hemorrhagic diseases, cupping is not only a helpless move, but even has more destructive consequences.
3. After cupping, don't take a bath or catch cold for a certain period of time, otherwise it will cause moaning and even aggravate the condition.
Cupping principle
Chinese medicine believes that cupping can relieve evil spirits, enhance the body's resistance and eliminate evil spirits. Diseases are caused by pathogenic factors, such as excessive yin and yang, abnormal ascending and descending of human qi, dysfunction of viscera and qi and blood, etc. When the human body is attacked by wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness, fire, poison, trauma or internal injury, it can lead to dysfunction of viscera and produce pathological products, such as blood stasis, qi stagnation, phlegm and saliva, food retention, turbid water and pathogenic fire. These pathological products are also pathogenic factors, which escape from the body through meridians and acupoints, reversing the flow direction of qi and staying in viscera; The meridians are blocked, which eventually leads to various diseases. The vacuum negative pressure generated by cupping has a strong suction force, which acts on the meridian points, and can suck the pores open, make the skin congested, and make the pathological products in the body be sucked out of the skin pores, thus dredging the meridian qi and blood, adjusting the function of viscera, and achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases. Chinese medicine believes that cupping can dredge meridians and regulate qi and blood. What are the meridians? Promoting qi and blood circulation, nourishing yin and strengthening yang, strengthening bones and muscles, and benefiting joints? Physiological functions, such as meridian obstruction, will lead to irregular menstruation and blood stasis, which may lead to skin, flesh and blood, tendons and joints shrinking adversely due to malnutrition, or blood vessels are not glorious and six fu organs are not transported. By cupping the skin, pores, meridians and acupoints, we can guide the expansion of the qi of ying and Wei, encourage the qi and blood of meridians, nourish viscera and organs with Confucianism, and warm the fur. At the same time, it can replenish the weak viscera function, dredge meridians, adjust the balance of yin and yang and regulate qi and blood, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening the body, eliminating diseases and treating diseases.