Vacuum cupping is useful in unblocking the meridians and channels, promoting qi and blood circulation, dispelling wind and dispersing cold (removing wind and dispersing cold), etc. It can be used to treat a wide range of medical and surgical diseases.
Vacuum cupping method is also known as pumping cupping method, which refers to the use of mechanical devices to draw out part of the air inside the can, so as to form a negative pressure inside the can, so that the can is adsorbed in the local skin of a method, is also a common cupping therapy.
Cupping therapy can also be used to treat cold and flu, neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, arthralgia, soft tissue strain and other conditions, but its effect of dispersing wind and dispersing cold is weaker than that of fire cupping therapy.
Cupping therapy needs to be operated carefully under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners, and the contraindications and indications of cupping method should be strictly mastered.