People with qi and blood deficiencies can have fire cupping, but fire cupping is not used to treat qi and blood deficiencies.
Cupping therapy, also known as suction can therapy or fire cupping therapy, uses the can as a tool, utilizing suction, combustion and other methods to make the can adsorb on the body surface or certain parts of the acupoints to produce stimulation to treat diseases.
Fire cupping therapy is suitable for stomach pain, cough, shoulder and back pain, lumbar and leg pain and other diseases, also used for lesions with small pressure points or acupuncture points. Contraindications to cupping therapy are severe heart disease, heart failure, infectious skin diseases, acute severe diseases, skin tumors, thrombocytopenic purpura, active tuberculosis and so on.
When cupping, pay attention to children and the elderly and infirm should not be left too long, such as blisters, pay attention not to rub. From the indications and contraindications of fire cupping, insufficient qi and blood can be cupped, but fire cupping can not treat insufficient qi and blood.
Fire cupping should be operated under the guidance of a professional physician, and should not be operated on its own to avoid causing injury.