1. Negative pressure. Scholars at home and abroad have found that when the human body is cupped and sucked under negative pressure, a large number of bubbles will overflow on the skin surface, thus strengthening the gas exchange in local tissues. Through examination, it was also observed that negative pressure caused local capillary permeability change and capillary rupture, and a small amount of blood entered the gap, resulting in blood stasis, destruction of red blood cells, release of hemoglobin and autohemolysis. In the body's self-regulation, it has the effects of promoting qi and blood circulation, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, relieving swelling and pain, expelling wind and removing dampness. , and play a positive role in stimulating it, prompting it to return to normal function.
2. Warm cupping can stimulate local skin, especially cupping, watering can and medicine can. Warm stimulation can dilate blood vessels, promote local blood circulation, improve congestion, strengthen metabolism, accelerate the discharge of wastes and toxins in the body, change the nutritional status of local tissues, enhance the permeability of blood vessel walls, enhance the phagocytosis of white blood cells and reticular cells, enhance local tolerance and body resistance, and play the role of warming meridians, dispelling cold, clearing heat and detoxifying, thus achieving the purpose of promoting disease improvement.
3. The adjustment of cupping is based on negative pressure or warm action. First, it regulates the nervous system. Because of hemolysis, it gives the body a series of benign stimuli, which act on the peripheral receptors of the nervous system and transmit to the heart and reach the cerebral cortex. In addition, the warm stimulation of cupping on the local skin is introduced into the central nervous system through the reflex channels of skin receptors and vascular receptors, which makes it reflexively excited, thus regulating the excitement and inhibition process of the cerebral cortex, making it tend to be balanced, strengthening the regulatory function of the cerebral cortex on various parts of the body, making the corresponding tissues of the affected skin metabolize vigorously, enhancing the phagocytosis, recovering the body, adjusting the imbalance of Yin and Yang, and gradually curing the disease.
The second is to regulate microcirculation and improve metabolism. The main function of microcirculation is the exchange of substances between blood and tissues, and the regulation of its function is of great significance in physiology and pathology. But also can strengthen lymphatic circulation and make the phagocytosis of lymphocytes active. In addition, due to the phenomenon of self-hemolysis after cupping, a histamine-like substance is immediately produced, which flows all over the body with body fluids, stimulates various organs, enhances their functional vitality, and contributes to the recovery of body functions.
4. Different cupping methods have different functions on the basis of cupping, and different cupping methods have their own special functions. For example, moving cupping has the functions of massage therapy and health scraping, which can improve the breathing and nutrition of the skin, facilitate the secretion of sweat glands and sebaceous glands, enhance the elasticity and activity of joints and tendons, and promote the surrounding blood circulation; Can increase the blood flow of muscle, enhance the working ability and endurance of muscle, and prevent muscle atrophy; It can also deepen breathing, enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, excite nerves that dominate abdominal organs, and enhance the secretion function of gastrointestinal organs; It can accelerate the blood return in venous blood vessels, reduce the resistance of large circulation, reduce the burden on the heart, and adjust the blood flow and reserve distribution of muscles and organs. Slow and light manipulation has a calming effect on the nervous system; Fast and heavy manipulation has a certain exciting effect on the nervous system.
Moving cupping along meridians can also improve the functions of various meridians, which is beneficial to the adjustment of the overall functions of meridians. Another example is drug cupping. Under the action of negative pressure and warmth in the pot, local pores and sweat glands are opened, capillaries are dilated, blood circulation is accelerated, and more drugs can be directly absorbed. According to different drugs, the curative effect is different. For dermatoses, cupping therapy is more effective in local treatment. The water tank method is mainly to warm meridians and dispel cold; The method of pricking collaterals and cupping is mainly to dispel blood stasis and stagnation, and to dredge orifices and knots; Because of the different acupuncture methods, the combination of acupuncture and cupping can produce various effects.
Cupping therapy is also called angle therapy. Cupping is to artificially cause capillary rupture and congestion through physical stimulation and negative pressure, mobilize the repair function of human stem cells and the absorption function of necrotic blood cells, promote blood circulation, stimulate essence and regulate qi and blood, and achieve the effect of improving and regulating human immunity.
Of course, cupping is not as accurate as acupuncture, mainly because of the combination of points, lines and surfaces. Through the distinction between cold and heat deficiency and excess in traditional Chinese medicine, select some parts where meridians pass or qi gathers.
Cupping is a unique therapeutic method, which has been circulated among the people in China for a long time. It is usually called cupping and suction. It is called cupping qi in Compendium of Materia Medica and cupping method in authentic surgery. In ancient times, it was mostly used for surgical carbuncle. At first, it was not a jar, but a horn tube with a small hole was used to suck pus in the affected area, so it was named "horn method" in some ancient books. The earliest written record of cupping therapy is The Elbow Queen written by Ge Hong in Jin Dynasty from 28/kloc-0 to 36 1.
Later, the horn tube was gradually replaced by bamboo pot, pottery pot and glass pot, and the scope of treatment also expanded from early surgical carbuncle to rheumatic pain, back muscle strain, headache, asthma, abdominal pain, traumatic congestion, common rheumatic cold and various pains.
Cupping is a kind of blood stasis therapy, which uses heat to exhaust the air in the jar to form negative pressure, so that the jar can be tightly sucked at the treatment site, resulting in blood stasis, thus producing therapeutic effect. China calls it congestion therapy. Because this method is simple and effective, it has been used so far in folk dynasties and has never failed. Even some foreigners are interested.
Cupping is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy in China. I believe many people, especially middle-aged and elderly people, will not be unfamiliar with it, because it is simple, convenient and easy to operate, and was once regarded as an important daily treatment method by ordinary people. How to use cupping safely and effectively at home, we interviewed experts such as Diao Benshu, a famous provincial Chinese medicine practitioner.