Cupping is good in dog days. Cupping can not only preserve health, but also achieve the effects of eliminating dampness, relieving summer heat and expelling cold.
As the saying goes? Make up for three or nine in winter and make up for prosperity in summer? . Experts believe that after entering the volt, it is the time for human pores to open and blood to flow smoothly. At this time, the treatment of diseases can be aimed at meridians and viscera. In addition to dog days stickers, there are dog days acupuncture, cupping and moxibustion. Doctors choose one or two methods according to different symptoms of patients.
It's dog days, and it's hot and wet. In summer, moisture easily invades the meridians, causing meridian blockage, qi closing in summer, visceral dysfunction and so on. And in the hot season, sighing at the air conditioner for a long time will also lead to various adverse reactions, such as low back pain, joint pain, colds and so on. According to experts, cupping can not only preserve health, but also prevent the above problems, and achieve the effects of eliminating dampness, relieving summer heat and expelling cold.
The incidence of colds is high in summer, and cupping therapy can play a good role in the early stage of colds and rheumatism caused by cold and dampness. Cupping in summer is also effective for treating some diseases that are easy to occur in winter, which is often said to treat winter diseases in summer, including chronic bronchitis, allergic rhinitis and repeated colds.
In addition, excessive accumulation of toxins in the body in summer can also be discharged by cupping, so as to achieve the purpose of eliminating dampness and dredging collaterals, and then play a role in calming and removing acne. Therefore, the dog days are the best time for cupping, and the cupping time in summer is best controlled at about 10 minutes.
Cupping is not suitable in dog days.
1. Dermatological patients: The skin has allergies, ulcers, edema and large blood vessels, which is not suitable for cupping.
2, the weak: the weak body has insufficient yang. Cupping again will lead to more yang deficiency and even destroy the balance of yin and yang. Therefore, the body is weak and the yang is insufficient. Try not to consider cupping.
3. Patients with lung diseases: patients with basic lung diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, tuberculosis, lung abscess, bronchiectasis, etc. Cupping is not applicable. Pulmonary inflammation is usually accompanied by alveolar injury or pulmonary fluid retention. If cupping is used, the pressure in the chest cavity will change sharply, which will lead to the rupture of pulmonary bullae on the lung surface, thus causing spontaneous pneumothorax.
4, special women: women's menstrual period and other bleeding parts, not cupping. As well as the abdomen and lumbosacral region of pregnant women, cupping is also inappropriate.