The parts of the human body that cannot be cupped include hairy, uneven and broken ulcers, as well as the lumbosacral and abdominal areas of pregnant women.
Cupping is a traditional therapeutic health care method, which refers to the adsorption of cupping cans on the surface of the patient’s skin in order to activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and to promote the efficacy of the collaterals and tendon relief, and it can be divided into flash cupping and walking cupping methods and other types. Cupping therapy is suitable for shoulder and back pain, lumbar and leg pain, stomach pain, cough and other diseases.
Other contraindications of cupping therapy are acute severe diseases, contact infectious diseases, severe heart disease, heart failure; skin allergies, infectious skin diseases, and skin tumors (lumps), skin ulcers; thrombocytopenic purpura, leukemia and hemophilia and other bleeding disorders;
There are also the apical region of the body surface of the large arterial pulsations and varicose veins; schizophrenia, convulsions, highly neurotic and uncooperative; acute traumatic fracture, moderate and severe oedema sites; scrofula (mainly refers to the cervical lymph nodes tuberculosis), hernia and active pulmonary tuberculosis; the eyes, ears, mouth, nose and other five senses of the orifices and orifices.
In the clinical treatment, should avoid the more hairy, uneven, skin ulcers broken, face and other parts of the face, in addition to the lumbosacral and abdominal areas of pregnant women, should not be cupping, there is a risk of miscarriage.
Cupping can be used to treat a variety of diseases, such as colds, shoulder and back pain. Patients who need to undergo treatment should go to the hospital to ensure their safety.