The difference between fire cupping and gua sha lies in the method of operation, the role of location, the main treatment scope of the different.
1. operation method: fire cupping is through the flame combustion can produce negative pressure, the role of acupuncture points or the affected area to treat the disease, and gua sha is to use gua sha board in the body surface scraping to make the gua sha, in order to achieve the therapeutic effect.
2. the role of location: fire cupping can only act on the local, but deeper, can wave to the skin, muscle, and scraping gua sha scraping area, shallow level, generally only act on the surface skin or superficial muscle.
3. main treatment scope: gua sha to dredge meridians, main treatment of wind cold cold, wind heat cold, heat stroke, shoulder and back pain and other meridians of the disease. Fire cupping to activate blood stasis, main treatment of frozen shoulder, cervical spondylosis, lumbar back pain and other qi stagnation blood stasis in the local conditions.
Fire cupping and Gua Sha should be carried out under the guidance of a professional physician, do not blindly operate on your own.