Fire-can therapy is a treatment method that uses the can as a tool and uses heat to make the can adsorb onto the skin surface of acupoints or areas that should be pulled out, resulting in localized congestion or blood stasis. The so-called stasis is caused by the difference in air pressure inside and outside the fire cupping, not because you have more garbage in your body. Some of the personnel who pull out the stasis blood are not of high quality and basically sterilize the patient with alcohol when sticking the patient with the needle, which may easily cause the patient's wound to be infected. About fire cupping, and not anyone can learn, the requirements are still more.
"Fire cupping" is the folk name for cupping therapy, also known as "pulling the tube" or "suction tube". Therefore, many diseases can be treated with cupping therapy. For example, when people reach middle age, tendon pain is common, according to the explanation of traditional Chinese medicine, it is mostly wind-dampness into the bone. When cupping the mouth of the can over the affected area, you can slowly suck out the dampness of the lesion, while promoting local blood circulation, to achieve pain, restore the function of the purpose, so as to treat rheumatism "paralyzing pain," sore muscles and bones, and other discomforts.
Since fire cupping can activate blood circulation, dispel wind and cold, and reduce swelling and pain, it has a certain therapeutic effect on the lumbar back muscle strain and lumbar intervertebral disc herniation. Mr. Diao also introduced, fire cans can also be used in the human body acupuncture points, the treatment of headache, dizziness, eye swelling, cough, asthma, abdominal pain and other problems, you can more than one fire cans at the same time.
Since it is a professional means of treatment, fire cupping is certainly not simple, if regardless of their own home fire cupping, easy to cause danger, life is not a lack of fire cupping accidents. If the acupuncture points are applied indiscriminately, sometimes it will be counterproductive. First of all, pay attention to the selection of materials, traditional Chinese medicine more bamboo tube, if you can not find, glass bottles, ceramic cups can be, just the mouth must be thick and smooth, so as to avoid the mouth of the fire can be too thin to hurt the flesh, the bottom of the best wide semi-circular.
1. Cupping parts of the skin to be flat, muscle should be relatively full, it is best to wash and dry.
2. If you use a cotton swab or cotton ball dipped in alcohol or liquid alcohol method, the alcohol used should not be too much, and be careful not to burn the mouth of the jar when burning, so as not to burn the local skin.
3. Cupping is generally not suitable for bony protruding parts, blood vessel-rich parts, as well as apical pulsations and breasts. 4. Cupping can mechanically stimulate the skin, reflexively affect the cerebral cortex, through the meridian. The types of cupping are congestive cupping (cans attracted to the skin flushed), stasis cupping (cans attracted to the subcutaneous hemorrhage, the skin was purple spots or purple spots), colds, headaches, it is desirable to pull the congestive cupping in the solar plexus; bronchitis, asthma can be pulled stasis cupping in the back of the lung Yu point.
5. According to the condition of the cupping, generally take turns to take points, once should not be too much. When the local blood stasis has not subsided, the cupping should not be repeated at the original site.
6. During the cupping process, do not move the body position to avoid the fire can fall off.
7. When cupping, pay attention to the heat preservation to prevent cold and wind.
8. Prevent burns or scalds. Apply gentian violet and other medicines when localized burns occur. When localized blisters, small ones need not be treated and can be sterilized and bandaged; large ones should be sterilized and then sucked out with a sterile air needle to retain the blister membrane, and then applied with cool oil, or covered with Vaseline gauze and dressings and bandaged, or with rhubarb, diyu, and chanshui shishi in equal portions,**** researching the fine surface, and mixing the ointment with sesame oil to make a poultice for external application.