What is Cupping therapy
Author: Dr. Lee
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Time: 2010/11/20 16:37:46
Cupping therapy is a special treatment of traditional Chinese medicine treasurehouse, and a precious cultural heritage of our Chinese nation. In the long historical processing, cupping therapy characterized by simple, economic, convenient, clinical effect, health protection, no side effect. It is validated by historic and modern medicine and welcomed by the majority of people, as well as foreign patients.
Cupping therapy uses various cups to reduce the pressure in the cups by using change in heat or by suctioning out air, so that the cups can draw the skin and superficial muscle layer into until there are dermathemia, congestion and barbotage on skin. It can stimulated meridian, improve blooding so to prevent diseases and cure it.
Cupping therapy uses appliances of cupping cup and change in heat.
There are many kind of cupping such as pottery pipe, glass cup, vulcanizer, air pump cup.
In the civil, many people use empty glass cup to do cupping therapy.
The tools of putting fire into cup use a thick iron ware is wrapped one end by absorbent gauze to dip some alcohol, hold another end to ignite it. To mention it, the alcohol is not too much in case to drop patient’s skin and burn.
Practice method:
The practice is important part of cupping treatment, which directly influence therapeutic efficacy of cupping. It is important for us to control the negative pressure that according to the body constitution, age, gender, pathogenetic condition of patients.
The concrete method are cupping after flash of fire, degassing method and so on.
Cupping after flash of fire
It is one important method of cupping treatments. The concrete approach：one hand hold the tool of ignition, another hand hold a cup that mouth is downward, put the fire into it and withdraw it quickly.
