Chinese medicine believes that cupping therapy has the functions of warming channels and dispelling cold, regulating viscera, harmonizing qi and blood, balancing yin and yang, sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, and promoting qi and blood circulation.
The vacuum negative pressure generated by cupping acts on the meridian points, which can open the points, cause local congestion, and make the pathological substances in the body excrete from the body through the lenticels, thus dredging the meridians and qi and blood, adjusting the functions of viscera, and achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases.
Modern medicine believes that the negative pressure of cupping therapy changes the permeability of local capillaries, and a small amount of blood enters the interstitial space, leading to blood stasis, destroying red blood cells, releasing hemoglobin, strengthening metabolism and accelerating the discharge of wastes and toxins in the body.
Different pot methods have different functions. For example, moving cupping has the functions of massage therapy and health scraping, which can improve the breathing and nutrition of the skin and is beneficial to the secretion of sweat glands and sebaceous glands; For example, under the action of negative pressure and warmth in the pot, local pores and sweat glands open, capillaries dilate, blood circulation accelerates, and drug absorption is more direct, so the local treatment effect of pot method is more obvious; 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.
Bamboo pot: commonly used in southern China, take a strong and mature bamboo tube with one end open and the other end knotted as the bottom. According to the caliber of the jar, it can be used to treat different parts of the body surface, such as large caliber for big back and buttocks. Small caliber, used for joints of limbs. As for bamboo cupping, which is not commonly used for a long time, it is too dry and easy to penetrate into the air. Soak in warm water for a few minutes before use, so that the bamboo pot is tight and airtight before use.
Pottery jar: It is made of clay with a round mouth and a big belly, then coated with black glaze or yellow glaze and fired in a kiln. It is called ceramic cupping. There are several kinds: large, medium, small and super small. The ceramic pot has smooth inside and outside, strong suction and tension, and is economical and practical.
Glass jar: The glass cupping jar is made of heat-resistant hard glass. The lower abdomen and the edge of the jar mouth are slightly protruding, clear and transparent, easy to observe, the jar mouth is smooth and has good suction force, which has been widely used by people.
Gas extraction tank: made of transparent plastic, not easy to break. Equipped with piston, it can be pumped manually or mechanically, and it does not produce open flame, so it is easy to carry and handle.
According to the way of exhaust, it can be divided into cupping (generating negative pressure in the tank by burning air), water tank (generating negative pressure in the tank by hot water or steam) and air pumping tank (generating negative pressure in the tank by pumping air).
According to cupping methods, cupping can be divided into: flashing cupping (immediately after cupping, repeated), leaving cupping (staying for a while after cupping) and pushing cupping (repeated on the skin surface after cupping).
According to other complementary therapies, it can be divided into: medicine pot (after the bamboo pot is boiled, the liquid medicine is stored in the suction pot), needle pot (cupping when the needle is kept) and pricking blood pot (cupping after pricking with triangular needle and leather needle).
1. Patients with hemorrhagic diseases.
2. Nervousness, drunkenness, hunger, satiety, overwork and convulsion are not suitable for the author.
3. Patients with severe heart disease, respiratory failure, local skin ulcer or allergy, active tuberculosis, emaciation leading to skin inelastic, high systemic edema and malignant tumor.
4. Pregnant women's abdomen, lumbosacral region and five senses, front and back yin, face and children are prohibited from doing heavy exercises.
5. Local hernia diseases (such as umbilical hernia, abdominal hernia, inguinal hernia, etc. ), varicose veins, cancer, etc.
1. Flush and reddish are positive, and red itself is a warm color, reflecting yang and heat in the body. When local flushing occurs, it is often hot, and redness is often the reaction of most normal people. The color is slightly redder than the skin, which can be removed in about 15 minutes to half an hour.
2. Purple is the reaction of most cupping patients, because most cupping patients have local pain and belong to a cold reaction. Crimson is generally mixed with purple, which generally appears in patients who have just caught cold and wind.
3. Black spots represent cold, and the number and size of black spots represent the size of cold. The more black spots there are, the colder it is.
4. Blisters are generally wet reactions. No matter whether there are small blisters or large blisters on the skin, blisters represent water in the body.
There are water drops in the jar, which often indicates that the patient is very wet and cold. Some people will also have water droplets on the pores of cupping. Such patients are usually very cold and humid.
Cupping therapy also has outstanding effect in preventing and treating respiratory diseases. For example, if you feel a cough caused by a cold, you can choose the acupoints left on your back by the bladder meridian of Foot Sun for treatment. Wind-heat cough accompanied by fever can be treated with three-edged needles to point Dazhui, Akazawa and Shu Fei, and then cupping, which can quickly reduce fever. Cupping can be used to treat bladder meridian and Du meridian for systemic muscle ache caused by cold. Excessive phlegm and sore throat can be treated by cupping in sudden, stomach and Feishu. The above treatment suggestions should be carried out under the guidance of professional doctors.
Li Ning, director of acupuncture department of Shenyang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, is a famous old Chinese medicine practitioner in Shenyang. Member of Chinese Acupuncture Society, director of Liaoning Acupuncture Society, executive director of Rehabilitation Branch of Chinese Ethnic Medicine Society, executive director of Foreign Law Branch of Chinese Traditional Medicine Society, member of Shenyang Health Education Lecturer Group, and expert of health education expert database. Engaged in acupuncture clinical work for more than 20 years, he is good at treating acute and chronic pain syndromes such as facial paralysis, tinnitus, deafness, dizziness, stroke and its sequelae, headache, neck, shoulder, back and leg pain, knee joint pain and herpes zoster with acupuncture, moxibustion and medicine.