1, bloodletting to reduce fever
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that fever can be divided into yang fever and yin deficiency fever, and cupping and bloodletting are suitable for relieving yang fever. Because yang is abundant, qi and blood must be abundant. Cupping and bloodletting can reduce blood, thus reducing the evil heat in blood and restoring the qi and blood of the body to normal.
2. Bleeding to relieve pain
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that meridians are bound to be impassable for diseases with pain symptoms. Cupping and bloodletting can directly draw out the stasis and toxin in the meridians, adjust the blocking phenomenon, dredge the meridians and relieve the pain. Symptoms such as sore throat and migraine can be treated by cupping and bloodletting.
3. Purge fire and purge fire
Fire-heat disorder can lead to many diseases, leading to sores on the mouth and tongue, swelling and pain in limbs, irritability, fever and other symptoms. Cupping and bloodletting can prevent pathogenic fire from descending with blood, which is suitable for the treatment of various heat syndromes.
4. Stop bleeding, reduce swelling and relieve pain
When the human body stagnates due to qi stagnation and blood stasis, it will cause swelling and pain in the body. Cupping and bloodletting can directly eliminate the stagnation of qi and blood and evil spirits in local meridians, and make the meridians unblocked, thus achieving the purpose of detumescence and pain relief.
5, bloodletting and detoxification
Under pathological conditions, the body can't resist toxic pathogens because of its own dysfunction, which will lead to heat toxicity in the body and symptoms such as sores, ulcers and gangrene. Cupping and bloodletting can not only expel the toxic pathogens invading the body with the blood, but also regulate the blood and regulate qi, so as to restore the normal function of the human body and inhibit the expansion or recurrence of diseases and pathogens.
6. Stop bleeding and relieve itching
Skin itching is the manifestation of cold and blood, so there is a treatment principle of "treating wind first, treating blood first" in TCM argumentation. Cupping and bloodletting can regulate blood and qi, promote blood circulation, force colds to dissipate, and achieve the effect of expelling wind and relieving itching.
Second, the disadvantages of cupping
1, cupping and bloodletting, if improperly operated and disinfected, will easily lead to skin damage, bacterial invasion and infection.
2. Excessive cupping and bloodletting can easily lead to deficiency of qi and blood and yang deficiency, which will affect the blood supply to the heart and brain for a long time.
Extended data:
The meaning of skin color after cupping;
1. If the seal on the can is purple-black and dark, it generally indicates blood stasis, such as menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea or insufficient blood supply to the heart. Of course, if the affected area is severely cold, purple and dark marks will also appear. If the impression lasts for several days, it often means that the course of the disease has been long and more treatment is needed. If there is a large area of black and purple imprint on the moving pot, it suggests that the area caused by cold is very large, so it should be treated symptomatically to drive away cold and evil spirits.
2, cans printed purple patches, generally can suggest cold blood stasis.
3. The jar seal is scattered in purple spots with different shades, which are generally suggested as qi stagnation and blood stasis syndrome.
4. Pale purple with spots, generally deficiency syndrome and blood stasis syndrome. If presented at Shenshu point, it means kidney deficiency; if presented at Spleen Shu point, it means qi deficiency and blood stasis. This point is often accompanied by tenderness.
5. The jar is bright red, which generally means yin deficiency and deficiency of both qi and yin. Yin deficiency and fire excess can also appear this impression.
6. The seal of cans is bright red and scattered, generally appearing behind a large area of cans, not higher than the skin. If it is concentrated in a certain acupoint and its vicinity, it means that the viscera where the acupoint is located has pathogenic factors. (Clinically, cupping is used to find this red spot, and acupuncture is used to treat diseases. )
7. Canned goods are printed with gray, which is tepid to the touch, mostly due to deficiency, cold and dampness.
8. The surface of the canned seal is wrinkled and slightly itchy, indicating the common cold and dampness.
9. There is moisture in the tank, indicating that there is moisture in this part.
10, blisters appeared on the can seal, indicating heavy moisture in the body. If there is blood in the blister, it is a reflection of damp-heat toxin.
1 1. If blisters, edema and excessive water vapor appear at the cupping site, the symptoms of venting will be revealed.
12, crimson, purple-black, or erythema, or slight pain and body heat, indicating heat toxin syndrome, and those without body heat, indicating blood stasis syndrome.
13, skin color unchanged, tepid to the touch, suggesting deficiency syndrome.
14. If there is no can trace after suction or there is, it will disappear immediately after opening the can and the color will return to normal, which means that the condition is still light. Of course, if you don't pick holes on time, you will also find that there is no pot trace. It can't be based on one time, but it takes several times to confirm whether there are symptoms.
Don't take a bath or catch a cold for a certain period of time after cupping, otherwise it will lead to diseases or even more serious diseases.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-cupping