Does cupping work?

Cupping can be used for the treatment of diseases, but also has the effect of health care. The specific efficacy of cupping is related to the patient’s condition and other factors, so it is difficult to generalize. Cupping is the use of cans as a tool, the use of combustion, suction, steam and other methods to cause negative pressure inside the can, so that the cans adsorbed in the acupoints or a certain part of the body surface, in order to produce a benign stimulation to adjust the body’s function, prevention and treatment of disease external treatment methods. Commonly used fire cans and gas cans. It has the functions of activating blood circulation, promoting qi circulation, relieving pain, reducing swelling, dispersing knots, reducing fever, dispelling wind, pulling out toxins, dispersing cold, etc. It is suitable for the treatment of shoulder and back pain. Cupping therapy is suitable for shoulder and back pain, lumbar and leg pain, stomach pain, cough, carbuncle gangrene (is a kind of poisonous sores, acute suppurative disease occurring on the surface of the body, limbs, internal organs) at the beginning of the disease and other conditions. For high fever, convulsions, spasms and other diseases, or cupping parts of the skin disease, skin infections and other conditions are not suitable for cupping therapy. If the patient is not feeling well, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time, and it is not advisable to treat the patient by oneself to avoid delaying the condition.