Scraping therapy, as one of the ancient folk therapies in China, can be traced back to Huangdi Neijing more than two thousand years ago. It is a kind of stone-expelling therapy or collateral-pricking therapy, which has been passed down from generation to generation and is still in use today. In Song Dynasty, Wang Pei called it "Taocaozi" in "On the Prescription of Malaria". "The Massage Law for Protecting Red Blood" records: "The doctor refers to the skin and exerts a little force." It is often used to treat tuberculosis, that is, heatstroke caused by exogenous factors in summer or epidemic diseases of damp-heat and warm malaria, and the skin often appears extra spots, which is also called "summer therapy". After the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the folk experience in treating tuberculosis attracted the attention of medical scientists. For example, Wei Yilin's "Effective Prescriptions for the Treatment of Famous Doctors in the World" describes "stirring intestinal sand": "Heartache, cold sweat, abdominal distension, want to be called stirring intestinal sand." Another example is Yang Qingcuo's Secret Recipe of Fairy Biography Surgery, Yang Qingcuo's Criterion of Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment, Apollo's True Story of Medicine, Gong's Shou's Bao Yuan and Jing Yue Quan Shu, all of which record the understanding and treatment experience of this disease. In the Qing Dynasty, Guo Zhijia wrote the first monograph "Guasha Yuheng", which discussed in detail the source, prevalence, manifestations, classification, scraping methods, tools and comprehensive treatment methods of Guasha. For example, in terms of treatment, it is pointed out that "the upper and lower neck bones on the back, the ribs on the chest, and the chapped shoulders on both backs should be scraped with copper coins dipped in sesame oil. Scrape the chapped head, forehead and legs with gauze or twine dipped in sesame oil. The soft meat of the big belly is internal, so wipe the salt with your hands. " Since then, a monograph on scrapping, Lu Leshan's Health Mirror, has been published. These two books have become the cornerstones that can make scraping a special technology. Since then, there have been more and more monographs on tuberculosis in the Qing Dynasty, with more than ten books, and there are more records of scraping medicine in other works.

When it comes to the curative effect of scraping, "scraping" is very important. After scraping, red, purple, black spots or black blisters will appear on the skin surface, which is called "scraping". This is a normal reaction after scraping, and it can disappear by itself after a few days without special treatment. The process of rash is that the blood vessels dilate until the capillaries rupture, and blood flows out and forms ecchymosis on the local skin. This blood clot will soon collapse and disappear. "Rash", observed by modern microscope, is congestion in capillaries of subcutaneous tissue. This kind of artificial "trauma" is exactly what western medicine can't understand and accept. Since it is a cure, it is naturally a cure to save lives and relieve pain. Why do you want to add new damage to your body? The theoretical explanation of traditional Chinese medicine is that most diseases are caused by stagnation of qi and blood, and "miliaria" is the excretion product of evil spirits. "Meng" means "giving evil a way out", thus improving the balance of qi and blood.

From the perspective of modern pathophysiology, scraping is to coordinate the overall function of human tissues and organs by regulating the nervous system, endocrine system and immune system. This concept of overall balance is the connotation of TCM science. Bubbing's skin is red and looks a little scary. In fact, no matter how red it is, don't worry, because it is harmless to the skin. The color of erythema usually reflects the severity of the disease. The more serious the illness, the more "consumption" and the darker the color. On the contrary, the disease is mild, with less "bruising" and lighter color. On the whole. The "blood stasis" on the skin will gradually subside within 3-5 days and return to normal later than 1 week, which will not only damage the skin, but also strengthen the local blood circulation because of this method of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, making the skin healthier than before.

Scraping in the human body can promote metabolism, expel toxins, relax muscles and tendons, and regulate yin and yang. In China, the traditional scraping therapy is a simple and natural folk treatment method. Tender bamboo boards, porcelain tiles, porcelain bowl edges, spoons, copper coins, glass or ramie with smooth edges are immersed in edible oil, wine, water or grease, and the skin surface is scraped repeatedly from top to bottom and from inside to outside until erythema or blood stasis spots appear on the skin, so as to achieve the purpose of relieving pain and treating diseases. It is often used to treat diseases that occur in summer and autumn, such as heatstroke, wind-heat cold and gastrointestinal diseases.

Under the guidance of the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, modern scraping therapy is an external treatment method to treat diseases more widely, based on the scraping of the ancients, following the operation and pathological characteristics of meridians, using special scraping instruments or buffalo horn scraping plates and lubricants with the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. Scraping therapy is deeply loved by internal medicine patients because of its characteristics of preventing and treating diseases, health care and strengthening the body, no need to take medicine, simplicity and quick effect.

"Cupping" is also a unique treatment method that has been popular among the people in China for a long time, commonly known as "cupping" and "straw", which was mostly used in surgical carbuncle in ancient times. At first, only a horn tube with a small hole was used to suck pus on the affected area, so it was named "horn method" in some ancient books. The earliest written record about cupping therapy. It was written by Ge Hong in Jin Dynasty from 28 1 to 36 1. It is mentioned in the book that the swelling is treated by the method of claw, and the angle used is claw. In view of the prevalence of this method at that time, it is not easy to cause accidents when it is applied. Ge Hong especially warned to choose the symptoms carefully. The book emphasizes: "carbuncle, tumor, carbuncle, tendon knot and carbuncle are not suitable for acupuncture treatment." Less people are worse than disaster. " This is obviously reasonable. Even from today's perspective, most of the symptoms listed are really not indications for cupping.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the tools of cupping had a breakthrough improvement. Began to use cut bamboo cans instead of horns. Bamboo pots are widely available and cheap, which greatly contributes to the popularization and promotion of this therapy; At the same time, the bamboo pot is light in texture and strong in absorbency, which also improves the therapeutic effect to some extent. Among the medical books in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Wang Tao's Secret of Foreign Taiwan Province is the most important one.

If animal horns and bamboo pots were used alternately in Sui and Tang Dynasties, bamboo pots had completely replaced animal horns in Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties. The name of cupping therapy has also changed from "suction tube method" to "angle method" In operation, the simple boiling method has been further developed to the cartridge method. That is to say, put the bamboo pot into the medicine prepared according to a certain prescription and boil it for later use. When necessary, boil the pot in boiling water and pull it on the acupoint with heat, which plays a dual role of drug attraction and external treatment.

By the Ming dynasty, cupping had become one of the important external treatments of traditional Chinese medicine surgery. Almost all major surgical works at that time listed this method. Mainly used for sucking pus and treating carbuncle swelling. Compared with the previous generation, the drawing mode has been improved. It is often used to put bamboo tubes directly into the juice of many kinds of traditional Chinese medicines, boil them and suck them directly. Therefore, bamboo tube is also called medicine Jane. This method of decocting and taking out the medicine box was described in some important surgical works in Ming and Qing dynasties, such as "Surgical Masterpiece" and "Golden Mirror of Medical Records", which shows that this method was very popular at that time.

By the Qing Dynasty, cupping had a greater development. The first is another innovation of cupping tools. Although bamboo cans are cheap and easy to get, they have poor suction and are easy to crack and leak after being dried for a long time. In order to make up for this deficiency, in the Qing Dynasty, clay pots appeared, and the word "cupping" was formally put forward. In this regard, Zhao Xuemin's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Qing Dynasty described it in detail: "Jiangyou and Fujian have cups, and kiln households sell them. They are as small as people's fingers, and the two ends of the abdomen are very narrow, which makes the mouth feel alive. Anyone suffering from all kinds of colds must use this pot. " At the same time, the focus area is no longer used as cupping site as in the past, but the therapeutic effect is improved by sucking and pulling points. At the same time, the therapeutic range of cupping therapy has also broken through the boundaries of sucking and pulling empyema in past dynasties, and it has been applied to many diseases.

At the same time, the origin, usage and indications of cupping in China are clearly introduced in Wu Shangxian's Li Xuan Parallel Prose and Qi Hongyuan's Heart of Surgery.

Scraping and cupping, as the treasure of China medicine, has experienced thousands of years of wind and rain. People admire its simplicity and practicality, and it will play an extremely important role in the future human history.