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What are the functions of cupping?
Cupping is a treatment method of traditional Chinese medicine. Cupping is generally mainly used for various bone diseases, such as temporary bone injury, rheumatism and other diseases, because cupping has a good effect on rheumatism, but cupping also has many places to pay attention to. So, what are the functions of cupping? What are the functions of cupping?

1, expelling wind and relieving pain

After being blown by cold air for a long time, it is easy to have discomfort symptoms such as headache and tears. At this time, the effect of taking medicine is often slow. Try cupping. Cupping the forehead helps to dispel wind and relieve pain. This method is recorded in many ancient Chinese medicine books, but experts remind that cupping is limited to five minutes at a time, and cupping on the forehead should not exceed three times, preferably every three to five days. If cupping is too frequent,

2. Relieve joint pain

Many people suffer from arthritis and the pain is unbearable. Cupping can also relieve joint pain caused by arthritis. The specific method is as follows: stretch and flatten the joints, and then find a plane that can hold cupping. After disinfection with disinfectant, cupping at joints also needs to pay attention to time. Cupping should not exceed fifteen minutes at a time, once a day. Don't do strenuous activities immediately after cupping, rub them first.

Step 3 lose weight

Cupping is a popular method to lose weight in recent years. Its attention is to suck out excess water and fat in the body through cupping. Cupping has two biggest advantages. First, there is no need for pain, as long as you persist every day, you can have a certain effect. Second, it is highly targeted, cupping where there is a lot of fat, which largely avoids the situation that "the place that should be reduced cannot be reduced, and the place that should not be reduced is getting smaller and smaller".

4. Side effects of cupping

Although people say that the side effects of TCM regimen are small, there are still inevitable side effects, and cupping is the same. The side effects of cupping are mainly as follows: First, it is easy to cause harm to the skin. Traditional cupping with fire is easy to burn the skin. Although some cupping methods avoid direct contact with open flames, they still do some harm to the skin. Second, the skin pores expand after cupping. If you don't pay attention to the cold, it is easy to cause the cold to invade the human body and cause diseases such as colds.

5, cupping can lose weight

(1) Cupping can reduce weight to some extent. It mainly uses cupping to stimulate human acupuncture points, so as to adjust meridians and strengthen spleen and kidney function, strengthen body resistance and eliminate evil spirits, and achieve the purpose of losing weight. Some clinical trials have proved that cupping is a safe, effective and non-rebound method to lose weight, which can not only treat according to syndrome differentiation, regulate and dredge meridians as a whole, but also promote human metabolism, thus achieving the overall weight loss effect.

(2) It should be noted that when you lose weight by cupping, you must choose the right acupoints before you can proceed to the next step. Generally, four acupoints, namely bilateral Shu Tian, bilateral vein, zhongwan and bilateral fenglong, are the main points, and cupping or gas pumping can be selected with appropriate size. Cupping takes about 15 minutes at a time, and the vacuum gas tank can be appropriately extended to about 20 minutes according to the strength, and it will take effect after one week.