Therefore, in the concept of traditional Chinese medicine, cupping mainly plays the role of dredging meridians, promoting qi and blood circulation, relieving swelling and pain, expelling wind and dispelling cold, so cupping can dispel dampness to a certain extent. Cupping can also be used for soft tissue injury, chronic strain, cold, abdominal pain, stomach pain, neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, headache, etc.
As for why cupping can eliminate dampness, the principle is as follows: after the can is heated, it forms a pressure contrast with the external air pressure. Under this pressure, moisture and water gather in the can through skin tissue, and the moisture in the body is eliminated through cupping, thus eliminating dampness. The so-called dampness means that some pathogenic factors in the body cannot be excreted for a long time, which brings various discomforts to patients, such as top-heavy, mental fatigue, sticky stool, greasy face, thick and greasy tongue coating, and decreased immunity. This shows that there is dampness in the human body at this time and it needs to be removed.
The effect of cupping to eliminate dampness is very obvious in patients with internal dampness and internal cold. However, moisture is also divided into external moisture and internal moisture. The external moisture caused by air-conditioning environment has a good effect through cupping, but the internal moisture caused by cold fruits is not obvious. The most important point is that cupping to remove dampness can only relieve any patient, but it can't completely solve the problem of dampness.
Instructor: Su Yufeng, Deputy Chief Physician of Chinese Medicine Department of Chuzhou First People's Hospital. He is good at treating spleen and stomach diseases, hypertension, diabetes and other common internal diseases. And dietary guidance for chronic diseases.
I often feel that to discuss a problem, we must discuss it with people with the same cognition and define it first. If the definition is not clear, the discussion will be the opposite, and the road is not right!
Let's take a look at the description of "dampness" in the Textbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine edited by Zhou Zhongying Cai Gan):
wet
Humidity is a humid gas in nature. If it rains for a long time, the humidity in the air increases, or if you live in a low-lying and humid place for a long time, or if you don't change your wet clothes in time after sweating, you will feel wet evil and get sick.
1. The potential pathogenic dampness is slow, so it is often not easy to be detected by patients. For example, external dampness is often caused by living in a mixed place for a long time, being injured by fog and dew, or working in water, and gradually getting sick. The internal dampness is mostly caused by drinking tea, or eating too much makes it cold and thick, and the water is wet for a long time.
2. A wide range of damp pathogens can invade all parts of the human body, including dirty cells, meridians, muscles and joints. When wet coke, the head is heavy and swollen; Wet resistance to moderate coke will make you feel annoyed; Wet injection of lower coke can cause swelling and turbidity of meibomian. There are many diseases caused by dampness, such as phlegm, edema, vomiting, diarrhea, joint pain, flaccidity and so on.
3. Wet sticky and turbid wet pathogen is sticky, stagnant and difficult to get rid of, so wet pathogen is a disease, which often has a long course and is difficult to heal. Wet turbidity is heavy, which is reflected in the symptoms of heavy head, heavy limbs and fatigue; Turbidity is dirty, which is manifested as excessive facial scales (Chρ), sticky stool, turbid urine, greasy tongue coating and other symptoms.
You got it? You got it? Are they right?
I have repeatedly stressed that words are very clumsy, the objective world is very complicated, and words cannot accurately describe objective things. The British don't call it wet, they call it wet, and the Japanese call it wet. Who is right?
There is no right or wrong. To meet the needs of communication, I want to describe and record something. Therefore, the word began with fabrication.
What is the difference and connection between wet and water?
It should be something that was already done. If there is more water, it belongs to the category of wet. how much is it? There is no fixed standard so far, is there?
With more than 30 years of cupping history, I am well informed. The more I read it, the more I feel that the contents written in the textbook are incorrect, to be exact, most of them are incorrect, and some of them are correct if they have the same cognition. If you don't know anything, you must think everything you read is correct, but sometimes you don't think so.
In fact, all medical theories come from practice. Theory is a summary of practical experience. Some are right and some are wrong. Until we know what is right, what is wrong will be considered right. For example, before Heliocentrism was accepted, geocentric theory was undoubtedly considered correct. Sometimes, what you think is right in your heart is wrong to express it in concrete words.
Medical theory is a process of guessing how a phenomenon comes into being after seeing or perceiving it. Without knowing or seeing it, people began to make it up. Now people are used to calling it "hypothesis" or "guess". In fact, most people want to "dream and make up lies".
Western medicine also sees the phenomenon, doing experiments on the human body or the human body and studying its process. There must be many mistakes.
During cupping, you will see water droplets in the cupping or on the skin surface, or blisters on the skin. Some people suspect that the "wet" in the body has been pulled out, and the blisters are mainly water. Why not pull the water out? Why not say cupping "to remove water"? It may be that many times, there is no water drop in the jar when cupping, and sometimes there will be no blisters. There will be many other phenomena, such as skin redness or purple when cupping, and there will be corresponding explanations. In fact, everyone wants to give an explanation after seeing a phenomenon. Only those seemingly "reasonable" explanations are accepted by most people and gradually passed down. This explanation may not be correct at all.
Look at this sentence in the original text: "There are many diseases caused by dampness, such as phlegm, edema, vomiting, diarrhea, joint pain, weakness and so on."
After reading this sentence, you will understand that as long as you see phlegm, edema, vomiting, diarrhea, joint pain and flaccidity, it is good to pull away the dampness with cupping! In fact, it is not at all, because the cause of the above symptoms is not necessarily caused by humidity. So many times, cupping is ineffective for people who see such symptoms.
If moisture can really be pulled out, then lower limb edema can be pulled out? Can ascites be pulled out? Can pleural effusion be extracted? Say yes, but it can't be cured; Say no, some are really effective! As long as the illness is serious enough, it is definitely ineffective.
Cupping can only treat some minor and less serious diseases. And the indication range is very narrow!
My experience is that after cupping covers the quilt, water drops are most likely to appear in the jar or on the skin surface, sometimes a lot, which should be similar to the formation of dew in autumn. It may have nothing to do with the disease itself.
Blisters on the skin are more common: the skin is tender, and it is pulled first, with great strength, for a long time, and even bleeds.
I often say now: don't ask me why I treat such a disease like this. What is the theory? Actually, I don't know. I only know that this method can cure such a disease, just like ordering tofu with brine, but why? I don't know
I often use a needle and a can to solve the pain at a certain point on my body, and the effect is excellent!
Cupping is a kind of therapy with cupping as a tool, which generates negative pressure by burning and pumping air, so that it can be adsorbed on the body surface, causing local blood stasis, thus achieving the functions of dredging meridians, promoting qi and blood circulation, relieving swelling and pain, expelling wind and dispelling cold.
Cupping is also a popular way of health care, but there are also places to pay attention to when doing cupping. Cupping pays attention to reinforcing and reducing. Diarrhea is often used in excess syndrome instead of deficiency syndrome. Generally speaking, cupping remedies include: close arrangement of multiple cans, heavy manipulation (cupping is more attractive and can last for a long time), suction cupping (inhaling cupping and exhaling cupping), cupping against meridians and so on. Generally, the catharsis methods of cupping are: catharsis, light manipulation, suction and drainage, cupping along meridians and so on.
Know your specific situation before cupping, and then do it. If you are weak, you can also consider moxibustion!
Cupping is an important health care method in traditional physical therapy in China, and it is a precious heritage of traditional Chinese medicine left by our ancestors. Cupping is an ancient physical therapy method, which uses glass or bamboo materials as materials to generate negative pressure by burning fire and pumping air, so that the cupping can be adsorbed on the skin surface to cause local congestion, thus achieving the effects of dredging meridians, promoting qi and blood circulation, expelling wind and cold, removing dampness and relieving pain.
Cupping therapy can not only promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, dredge collaterals and relieve pain, but also eliminate moisture and toxins in the body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the so-called dampness toxin refers to pathogenic pathological products such as phlegm, drink, water and dampness in the body. These pathogenic factors will cause various discomforts of patients, such as top-heaviness, fatigue, laziness, sticky stool, shiny facial hair, thick and greasy tongue coating, and decreased immunity. This is a wet toxin. The main principle of cupping in traditional Chinese medicine is to heat the tank by burning fire, and the tank is heated, which produces a certain negative pressure with the cold air outside. Under the action of negative pressure, moisture and water enter the tank through skin tissue, thus forming water moisture and cleaning the pulled water moisture. After several times of cupping, the moisture toxin in the body will be excreted!
Cupping therapy has obvious curative effect on patients with internal dampness and external cold. If you look forward to it for a long time, the external humidity caused by air conditioning environment is good, and the internal humidity caused by eating raw and cold fruits is very weak. Therefore, it is necessary to distinguish between external dampness or internal dampness, internal dampness or external dampness or cold invading the meridians in the body. Cupping only relieves symptoms and cannot completely solve the root causes. Therefore, if you feel heavy moisture in your body, you can also eat some dampness-removing foods, such as red beans, coix seed, yam, yam and so on.
Heavy moisture is not good for human body, so in humid weather, such as southerly wind, many friends will choose cupping to get rid of the moisture in their bodies, and it is good to choose a professional doctor or beautician to cupping. If you do it yourself but lack the corresponding knowledge, you need to pay attention. Wet cupping must avoid three misunderstandings, otherwise it will not only eliminate dampness, but will lead to illness.
Myth 1: Pull repeatedly in the same position.
If you can't pull it twice at a time, in the same position and repeatedly, you won't believe that this cupping is invalid. There is a great determination that "nothing is difficult in the world, nothing is impossible to a willing mind".
You can even pull out the whole body when cupping, because it can comprehensively treat and improve the therapeutic effect. However, repeated pulling in one place, although the persistence of this treatment is remarkable, is red and swollen to the skin ... this is not worth the candle.
Myth 2: The longer the time, the better the effect.
Many people say that cupping takes at least half an hour. Some people think that cupping can only pull out blisters, especially some elderly people hold this view. And is cupping really as long as possible?
Cupping varies according to the size, material and negative pressure of cupping. But generally speaking, the time from ignition to can lifting should not exceed ten minutes. Because the main principle of cupping is negative pressure rather than time, if cupping takes too long under the condition of high negative pressure until the blister is pulled out, it will not only hurt the skin, but also cause skin infection.
Myth 3: Take a bath after cupping.
Take a bath immediately after cupping Many people who love bathing often say that cupping and bathing are indispensable. Indeed, warm bath water and warm cupping are comfortable to think about before pulling out after washing, and then washing after pulling out. However, we really need to pay attention to this order. You can cupping after taking a bath, but you must never take a bath immediately after cupping.
After cupping, the skin is in a damaged state and very fragile. Bathing at this time can easily lead to skin damage and inflammation. If you take a cold bath, it is easy to catch cold because your skin is in a state of open pores. So you must not take a bath immediately after cupping.
Cupping has many functions, such as enhancing immunity, regulating stomach and intestines, dredging meridians, eliminating dampness and expelling toxin. However, if it is to eliminate dampness and detoxify, it is best to cooperate with dietotherapy, because dampness can be divided into internal dampness and external dampness, cupping is effective for external dampness, while internal dampness needs dietotherapy to recuperate. The commonly used Gordon Euryale tea has a good effect, and it may be better to cooperate with cupping at the same time to eliminate dampness more thoroughly.
Health experts from Weiwei Health Network reminded that cupping is a good way to get rid of dampness, and you can also eat more food to get rid of dampness. Traditional Chinese medicine has many dietotherapy prescriptions specifically for damp evil. Let's take a look-how to regulate what to eat and eliminate dampness.
Cupping can remove moisture from the body. In recent years, I have used cupping to scrape and eliminate dampness to treat diseases, and I often scrape myself. Cupping and scraping can realize the health and fitness of getting sick, eliminating dampness and eliminating dampness.
After the human body is attacked by external evils such as wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness, heat, etc., the qi and blood run abnormally, and there will be blood stasis, qi stagnation, phlegm and saliva, food retention, turbid water, pathogenic fire and other phenomena in the body, which can be solved by scraping or cupping, without spending money or taking medicine. Cupping is not only used to treat diseases, but also to regulate sub-health, health care, beauty and body shaping.
Cupping therapy, I have watched my grandmother pull it out for me since I was a child. In the past, old people did not seek medical treatment for colds, skin fever, cold and heat, and all relied on cupping or scraping. Cupping therapy is famous for its simplicity, convenience, cheapness and effectiveness. The operation method is simple, safe, time-saving, money-saving and labor-saving. Suitable for all ages, convenient to use, quick to take effect and magical in effect. Maybe many people like to use it today.
Cupping can be a good way to see the symptoms. Cupping is like a magnifying glass in the body. Careful inspection can be clear at a glance:
If there are blisters and edema in the cupping area, it means that it is full of moisture, or it is caused by feeling wet and cold.
The skin in the cupping area is pale and feels tepid, indicating anemia, deficiency-cold and dampness.
There is no obvious change in skin color in cupping area, but there are yellow blisters or yellow-green blisters, pus, sticky substances and colloidal substances, which are mostly inflammatory and heavier.
The sealing of cans is dark red, purple black or reddish brown, which feels slightly painful, mostly caused by fire, poison and excessive heat. The sealing of cans is dark purple and dark or purple spots with different shades, mostly caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis. If there is purple plaque, it is mostly a symptom of cold coagulation and blood stasis.
The altar seal is bright red and gorgeous, which is mostly caused by yin deficiency, deficiency of both qi and blood or hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency. The jar is printed in red and black, indicating high blood fat, thick blood and heat evil.
Feeling itchy cupping indicates common cold and dampness. After cupping, the markings and color of the skin gradually decrease and become lighter, which proves that the symptoms and signs gradually decrease, and vice versa. Cupping is also asked by the university. Learning is good for yourself and people.
Cupping can eliminate dampness, which has a certain effect on treating some minor diseases, but it will also remove vitality while eliminating dampness. It is suggested that those with poor physical fitness should pull as little as possible, and those with strong physical fitness should not pull too often!
You can't remove moisture by covering the jar. Why can't you say you can't get rid of moisture? What does moisture mean and how is it generated? This is related to all kinds of bad habits in life, such as eating all kinds of raw, cold, cold and oily foods and staying up late. There is a direct relationship between them, and so on. All kinds of deficiency diseases caused by the normal function of spleen controlling essence and stomach controlling turbidity are caused by excessive moisture and blood stasis blocking the spleen. Cold-dampness entrainment, cold-sleepy stomachache and so on in traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow, the source of qi and blood biochemistry, spleen and stomach weakness, all kinds of cold and dampness in the viscera, can be cured by dry hair cans alone. This is absolutely impossible, enough hype …
It can also get rid of dampness. But mainly to dispel the cold.