There is a new trend in the Rio Olympics, including the “flying fish” Phelps, the U.S. team, Belarusian swimmers Sankovich and others have chosen cupping as a means of recovery from training competitions. In their bodies can see a mysterious circle of black and purple marks, which is particularly familiar to the Chinese “cupping”. Jessica McLean, acting head of the International Cupping Association, said that in the past three days, the purchase of cupping equipment has increased by 20 percent, and the number of physical therapists wanting to obtain a cupping license has increased by 50 percent. Cupping has taken the world by storm, but in fact there are still many misconceptions about cupping. 1, is everyone suitable for cupping? On August 8, he came to a health massage store in a small area to relieve the symptoms of stiffness, and the massage technician pointed to the Olympic champion Phelps on TV and said that cupping could not only relieve these problems, but also strengthen the body and improve immunity, so Mr. Zhou quickly accepted the technician’s services. After the cupping, the symptoms of frozen shoulder were not relieved, but the symptoms of weakness in the limbs, chest tightness and shortness of breath appeared. On the morning of August 9, many small blisters grew on Mr. Zhou’s back cupping site. He came to the hospital, and the doctor said the blisters were due to improper cupping induced infection, and Mr. Zhou has a history of diabetes, cupping is likely to aggravate the condition. What’s more, Chengdu’s 61-year-old Master Fan, due to abdominal discomfort, chills, etc. came to a health care physiotherapy store for cupping treatment, “cupping while also cupping and chatting with the clinic.” But soon after, Master Fan suddenly lost consciousness, the clinic staff to do CPR resuscitation on his side, while calling 120 for help. When the ambulance arrived at the scene, Fan had dilated pupils, the arrival of medical staff to implement emergency resuscitation, but ultimately failed to save the life of the elderly, Fan was initially diagnosed as sudden death. Informed sources told the doctor that Master Fan had a heart condition. Therefore, there are some contraindications to cupping therapy: people with skin allergies or ulcers, heart disease, women with menstruation and pregnant women, blood disorders, mental illness or nervousness, various fractures, extreme weakness, excessive fatigue, too full, too hungry, too thirsty, drunkenness, etc., are prohibited cupping therapy. 2, the more purple and painful the cupping is, the better? The most direct sensory feature of cupping is the can spot. Can spot, as defined in the New Century undergraduate textbook, is the appearance of purple spots, petechiae, or petechiae on the cupping area after cupping, or accompanied by a slightly hot and painful sensation, also known as a can mark. Mr. Cheng Tan An, a great acupuncturist, believes that the appearance of can spots can improve the therapeutic effect to a certain extent, and in Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, it is stated that cupping should be done until “the purple-red color is better”. After cupping, the patient can feel a local pulling and swelling sensation, or heat, warmth, cool air out, comfort and relaxation, etc. Some of the symptoms can be immediately or gradually reduced, or even disappear completely. Abnormal reactions can be manifested (1) local abnormal reactions: after the can, the patient feels local tension, pain, burning and spicy, and blistering in a few minutes; or the distal end of the applied local feels cold, numb, pain, etc. Causes: patient tension; improper choice of tank type, too much suction; operation error, open fire is not extinguished, or the temperature is too high, burning the skin, or the skin originally has a wound; the drug applied to stimulate too strong; the edge of the tank is too thin or not smooth, or the skin is dry and loose, the operation on the tank rotated the wrist to make the skin wrinkles; suction tank time is too long, too much local stasis of blood, the bulge is obvious; local superficial larger Arterial distribution, due to suction, the artery is compressed, affecting blood flow, so that the distal tissue bleeding or ischemia. (2) Dizziness: During the cupping process, the patient experiences dizziness, panic, nausea, vomiting, cold sweat, pallor, shortness of breath, fine pulse, and even fainting. Causes: patient weakness or hunger, fatigue, nervousness; placement of the jar in a contraindicated area. 3, cupping is a national treasure? Cupping therapy has a long history in China, and is an important part of the non-drug folk medicine of the motherland. Cupping therapy is an ancient name for “horn method”. In the 1973 Hunan Changsha Mawangdui Han tomb unearthed the silk book “52 disease formula”, there is already about the horn method of treatment, to the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties, the bamboo jar has completely replaced the animal horn. The name of cupping therapy, also by the “suction tube method” replaced the “horn method”. From generations of Chinese medical literature, cupping before the Song Dynasty was mainly used to treat canker sores and poison. Such as the Tang Dynasty, there are records of bamboo cupping for the treatment of diseases. Song Dynasty doctors began to bamboo tube as a tool to expand the indications for cupping to internal diseases. In the Tang Dynasty, the Tai Medical Department had the horn method as a single medical technique to teach and learn. After the founding of New China, cupping is an important part of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. From the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum of Chinese medical history collection of nearly one hundred pieces of jars from different eras of research that: the Yellow River Basin mostly used ceramic jars, the northern pastoral areas mostly use horn jars, the southern climate more hot bamboo jars … indicates that cupping therapy and human living environment has a close relationship. Blood cupping is also one of the world’s traditional medical treatments, according to historical records, many countries and regions of traditional medicine have applied this therapy. In 400 B.C., Herodotus recorded that Egyptian doctors had begun to use bloodletting and cupping to treat diseases. Therefore this technique is not unique to China, but exists in different forms in Vietnam, the Balkans, most of Europe, modern Greece, Cyprus, Mexico, Russia and Polish folklore. 4. Is cupping helpful for athletes? The traditional cupping method is to burn the air inside the jar to cause negative pressure, and through the warmth of the adsorption site and the resulting stimulation of the body by the phenomenon of depressed blood, to warm the meridians and disperse cold, unblocking the blood and Qi, dispersing wind and removing dampness, etc., so the clinical treatment of meridians and collaterals paralysis, qi and blood obstruction caused by a variety of paralysis and painful diseases are the most reported. Secondly, it can dispel evil and remove blood stasis, clear heat and detoxification, the limit of the negative pressure effect generated by cupping up to 380 mmHg, and the fire can has a hermetic seal, can maintain a constant negative pressure during the treatment process (about 30 minutes), and thus has a good suction and extraction force, according to this performance commonly used fire cans to dispel evil and remove blood stasis, play a role in clearing heat and detoxification, dredge the meridians, reduce swelling and pain. Again can harmonize blood and Qi, internal treatment of internal organs, although cupping method applied to the body surface, but can be stimulated through meridian sensing, thus harmonizing blood and Qi, internal treatment of internal diseases. A study was conducted to observe the effect of cupping therapy at the back point on the serum creatine kinase (CK) of athletes after sports fatigue. Twenty athletes were randomly divided into 2 groups of 10 each. The athletes were randomly divided into 2 groups of 10 each, and the exercise load was unified according to the training program, and after exercise, the treatment group was treated with walking jar therapy at the dorsal Yu acupoint, and the control group was rested for 30 minutes, and then the changes of serum creatine kinase (CK) were observed. The results showed that the serum creatine kinase level of the athletes in the back acupuncture point walking jar therapy group was significantly lower than that of the control group (P<0.01). This indicates that the back acupuncture point jar therapy can effectively reduce the production of serum creatine kinase after sports fatigue, which provides an experimental basis for the recovery practice of athletes from sports fatigue. Therefore, combining modern research and traditional theories, we have reason to believe that cupping can be helpful for athletes' pain and fatigue recovery. Therefore, we hope to use cupping reasonably under the guidance of a doctor to relieve your ailments.