Examples of clinical applications of cupping method

Cupping method, the ancient name of “angle method”, is a commonly used in acupuncture and moxibustion therapy, flash cupping, walking cupping, stabbing cupping for the commonly used clinical cupping method, which can be used to treat a variety of diseases. The author has the honor to learn from the teacher and observe the clinical application of the canning method, examples are as follows. 1, flash canning method – the treatment of facial paralysis, the first can after the needle Case 1: female, 30 years old, mainly due to the left side of the face of the mouth and eyes skewed for 3 days. Three days ago, due to the wind-cold, the patient’s mouth and eyes were distorted, the left side of the mouth was distorted, the left eye was not closed, tearing, the left frontal line disappeared, the left nasolabial groove became shallow, and there was no obvious pressure pain behind the left ear. Flash can therapy: use small glass cans, in the left side of the face, forehead, especially around the eyes, nose, perioral parts, rapid flash plucking, each part of the 3-5, to the extent that the skin flushed, and then conventional acupuncture treatment. Flash can requirements: skillful movements, the patient feels comfortable for the best, do not burn hot can mouth scald patients. Press: This is a wind-cold blockage caused by facial paralysis, the treatment should be to dispel wind and cold, through the meridians and activate the meridians. Facial three yang meridians, more gas and blood, so the operation of flash canning method in the face, open the local coupling, stimulate the facial qi and blood, so that the needle can be adjusted to have qi and blood, and at the same time warm the meridians, so that the facial meridians and gas can be communicated. Modern medicine believes that facial flash cans, with mechanical stimulation and warmth, can promote facial blood circulation, improve nerve excitability, accelerate the absorption of facial neural tube edema. 2, back walking canning method – the treatment of cough Example 2: female, 45 years old, mainly due to “cough for more than half a month”. The patient after the cold, cough, headache, has been intravenous drip antibiotics for 13 days, the last 3 days of coughing gradually aggravated, sputum yellow viscous, coughing chest pain, T37.6 ℃, white tongue, smooth pulse. Walking jar treatment: apply lubricant on the back, choose the right size of glass jar adsorption in the large vertebrae points, along the dushi meridian, bladder meridian, pushing and pulling up and down at an even speed for several times, in order to appear red, purplish red or purple-black gua sha points, petechiae to the extent of the stasis. At the same time in the large vertebrae, Fengmen, lung Yu, spleen Yu and other points to stay cans (5min or so), and then the routine acupuncture treatment. 10 days after the patient’s second visit, complaining of cough significantly reduced, headache symptoms disappeared. Requirements: skillful movement, even force, while one hand slightly upward to lift the can to reduce pain. Press: This is a cough caused by external wind-cold, lung qi depression and heat, the treatment should promote lung cough. The Duchen Jing is the confluence of all the yang in the human body; the foot solar bladder meridian is the main surface of the body, which can resist the invasion of external evils, so it is chosen to operate on the back. Back walking cupping both cupping and gua sha role, can stimulate the Wei Qi, drive away the external evil, but also through the meridian to activate, remove blood stasis and new. If the heat phenomenon is obvious, can also be in the bladder meridian first lateral line with three-pronged needle picking, walking cupping, so that each pinhole bleeding 1 ~ 2 drops, in order to strengthen the role of heat detoxification. According to the site of cupping, the color of the can mark and different skin temperatures, can reflect the disease. Cupping mark color dark for solid evidence, color light for false evidence; hand touch warm for hot, hand touch cool for cold or false. The color of bright red, for the wind; color black, pale outside the dark red, cool, for cold; color red, hot, for hot; color dark easy blisters, for wet; color dark with purple and black petechiae, for stasis. According to the walking canning techniques and focus on different parts of the operation, the therapeutic effect is not the same [1]: cupping canning negative pressure hours can be through the guard, negative pressure can be through the camp; slowly walking canning focus on adjusting the function of the internal organs, fast walking canning is strong in the activation of blood stasis; the surface cold can be warm yang to solve the surface, the hot can be drained through the hot, and so on. Modern medicine confirms that the distribution of nerve segments of dorsal acupoints is very similar to the distribution of nerve segments of internal organs, so the stimulation of walking cans can regulate the excitation and inhibition of the autonomic nervous system, which can help to improve the metabolism of the body, immunity, pain threshold. Walking can therapy is suitable for a wide range of diseases, Yu Hailong, et al [2] searched the literature, found that walking can therapy on myofasciitis, frozen shoulder, cold, dermal neuritis, lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, facial nerve paralysis, insomnia, cervical spondylosis and other obvious therapeutic advantages, but also in the adjustment of sub-health, anti-aging also has a role. 3, stabbing cupping method 3.1 bloodletting cupping treatment of varicose veins of the lower limbs Example 3: female, 52 years old, mainly due to “varicose veins of the left lower limb for more than 8 years”, the symptoms of the veins are tortuous and bulging, accompanied by swelling and pain in the left lower limb, fatigue, dark tongue, white moss and sunken pulse. Operation: puncture the local lesion with fire needle, select the appropriate glass jar to quickly suck and pull the puncture site, leave the jar for about 5min, while local acupuncture treatment, a total of 3 treatments, the varicose veins flattened, and the color became obviously lighter. Requirements for bloodletting: skillful manipulation, adequate local disinfection, bloodletting volume of about 50-80ml each time. Press: This is a lower limb cold condensation and stasis, blood stasis caused by qi deficiency and varicose veins, through the fire needle puncture of the local Ah Yes point with the millimetre needle, the fire pot can be directly to make the bad blood out of the exhaust, eliminate stasis and generate new, tonifying fire and helping yang, stimulating the meridian qi, so that the blood flow can be unimpeded, and the elasticity of blood vessels can be restored. This method is simple, effective and not easy to recur. 3.2 Acute stage of herpes zoster treated by stabbing and cupping Example 4: Male, 43 years old, consulting the doctor mainly because of “pain in the waist and abdomen with herpes for 3 days”. After drinking alcohol, the patient had tingling pain in the left side of the abdomen and waist, accompanied by red papules in the left lumbar abdomen, and the abdomen and groin showed red herpes zoster with a band of about 6cm×30cm, which caused unbearable pain, and he could not lie down at night, and his tongue was yellow and greasy, and his pulse was smooth and numberless. Operation: the fire needle burned to red through white, quickly knocking the affected area, along the herpes distribution area will be cans for banded arrangement, each can make bleeding 3-5ml, and then millimetre needle local peripheral puncture. After one treatment, the pain was greatly reduced, and some herpes became black and scabbed, and after five consecutive treatments, no new rash appeared, the pain disappeared, and the local dryness and scabbing. Press: this is dampness and heat in the spleen, plus diet spicy, induced by the accumulation of poisonous evil, treatment to clear the dampness and heat, detoxification and pain relief. Fire needling and cupping, release a small amount of blood, so that the blood diarrhea evil out of the evil, eliminate evil pain, eliminate blood stasis and generate new. Fire needling and cupping are often used in the acute stage of the disease when the scope of bleeding is more concentrated. 3.3 Milli-fire acupuncture and cupping to regulate the middle Jiao Example 5: Female, 50 years old, mainly due to “insomnia, tinnitus for more than half a year”. She had been treated several times, but the treatment was not effective. Her symptoms included insomnia, tinnitus, accompanied by yellowish face, fatigue, greenish gray eyes, poor concentration, shortness of breath and lack of limbs, irritability, fat tongue with teeth marks, and thin pulse. After routine acupuncture, in the epigastric region, double period door, double chapter door, a cluster of millimetre needles to save stabbing micro-hemorrhage cupping, stay cupping 5min, stay needle 20min, every other day needle treatment for 1 time, needle 2 times, sleep improved, tinnitus sound weakened, mood improved significantly, this method of treatment for more than a total of more than ten times, the above symptoms basically disappeared, and return to normal life. Press: This is the tinnitus caused by the loss of transportation of the middle gas and the loss of nourishment of the clear orifices, and insomnia is the cause and effect of each other, so it is appropriate to regulate the middle jiao qi, to clear the orifices and to tranquilize the mind. Therefore, millineed needling and cupping are used to regulate the middle jiao, elevate clearness and lower turbidity, to achieve the purpose of sufficient quantity and slight bleeding, to stimulate the meridian qi, dredge the meridians and adjust the yin and yang of the internal organs, so as to restore the normal physiological function of the human body. Cupping therapy is simple and painless, and can be used alone or with acupuncture to improve the therapeutic effect, so it is widely used in clinical practice. Meanwhile, as a characteristic, natural and economic therapy of Chinese medicine, it is easier for people to accept and worth promoting.