Scraping and cupping are both external treatments of Chinese medicine and can be done at the same time.
Gua Sha is the use of gua sha board on the surface of the human body in specific parts of the repeated scraping, point, pick, percussion and other techniques, so that the body skin surface appears flushed, purple and red, in order to dredge the meridians, the excretion of toxins, to achieve the adjustment of qi, blood, yin and yang of the internal organs, so that it restores the balance of a therapeutic method.
Cupping is a therapy that borrows heat or other methods to exclude the air in the can and form negative pressure, so that it is absorbed in a certain part of the body or acupoints, and produces corresponding stimulation to the acupoints and meridians, in order to smooth the qi and blood and disperse the evil obstruction.
If you are not feeling well, you can do both Gua Sha and cupping at the same time, which generally does not affect the effect of the treatment. And gua sha is to disperse superficial stagnation, while cupping is to pull out the deep evil, both can play a complementary role at the same time.
If you need to scrape and cupping crowd, you should go to a regular hospital by a professional doctor to operate, avoid blind operation, so as not to operate improperly cause discomfort.