Fire cupping is a unique treatment method that has been handed down for a long time in China’s folklore, commonly known as “cupping” or “suction tube”.
In ancient times, it was mostly used for surgical canker sores. Initially, the jar was not used, but the horn tube with small holes ground in the affected area to suck pus and blood, so the ancient books named “horn method”. Cupping therapy is to use the cup and jar as a tool to exclude the air in the jar or cup and tube by heat to generate negative pressure, so that it adsorbs the body surface, through the local negative pressure and warming effect, and cause local tissue congestion and slight depression of blood in the skin, to promote the smooth flow of meridians, qi and blood to achieve the purpose of treatment of disease.
It is widely used in the treatment of internal, external, gynecological, pediatric, orthopedic, skin and five senses diseases. For example: frozen shoulder, stomach pain, cervical spondylosis, headache, cough, asthma, dysmenorrhea, pelvic inflammation, lumbar back muscle strain, lumbar disc protrusion, rheumatic arthritis, hypertension, cerebral thrombosis, cold, neurological headache, pediatric enuresis, pediatric anorexia, mosquito bites, obesity and other diseases.
The meridians of the human body belong to the internal organs, and the external meridians belong to the limbs, which are intertwined throughout the body, making the internal and external organs, limbs and joints of the human body an organic whole. Fire cupping therapy through the edge of the jar pressure and negative pressure sucking, scraping the skin, pulling, squeezing the superficial muscles, stimulating the meridians, acupuncture points, along the meridian transmission, from one to the other, from the surface to the inside, in order to achieve its meridians, adjust the qi and blood, balance yin and yang, the purpose of eliminating disease and fitness.
As the saying goes, if you want to be physically safe, fire cupping often dip, fire cupping therapy has the advantages of simple operation, easy to master, economic apparatus, rapid healing, safe to use, no side effects. So you can learn to do home health care.
The method of fire cupping.
First of all, we should pay attention to the selection of materials, such as bamboo tubes, ceramic cups, glass bottles, just the mouth must be thick and smooth, so that the fire canister mouth is too thin to hurt the flesh, the bottom is best wide in a semicircle.
Before cupping, the jar should be washed and dried, and then let the patient lie or sit comfortably, revealing the part to be cupped, and then ignite the fire into the jar. Ignition is usually done with one hand holding the can and the other hand holding the probe that has been lit, and the operation should be done quickly, with the probe on fire in the can shaking a few times and then withdrawn, the can is quickly placed on the part to be treated.
The fire is still burning when you have to cover the mouth of the jar tightly in the affected area, can not wait for the fire to go out, otherwise it is too loose, not conducive to sucking out moisture, to have the mouth of the jar tightly sucked in the body to feel good. Be careful not to burn the edge of the jar mouth to prevent burns.
Generally 10 to 15 minutes cupping can be removed, do not forcefully pull the can, do not pull and turn, the action is to tilt the can to one side with one hand, the other hand press the skin, so that the air through the gap into the can, the can will naturally disconnect from the skin.
Contraindications and precautions.
1, cupping to choose the appropriate body position and muscle fullness, smooth skin, no hairy parts, according to the required cupping parts, choose different specifications of the canister, to prevent air leakage or choose curved cans.
2, do not move the body position after cupping on the jar, in the use of multiple fire cupping therapy, between the jar and the jar should remain a certain distance, should not be arranged too close.
3, after cupping the jar, the patient must be asked how it feels, such as heat, tightness, cool air out, warm and comfortable feeling are normal reactions. If the patient feels too tight burning pain. Unpleasant may be too much suction and extraction force or here is not suitable for cupping, or change to a small fire can.
4, cupping, start cupping should keep the room warm, avoid the wind, to prevent cold.
Contraindications.
1, skin allergies, the whole body withered or skin loss of elasticity.
2, violent convulsions or irritability of the whole body.
3.Floating disease, or edema.
4.Severe blood loss, bleeding disorders and bleeding tendency.
5.Women during menstruation.
6, the lower abdomen and lumbosacral region of pregnant women.
Can spots and their significance.
We call the “red marks” on the skin after cupping “can image”, which to a certain extent reflects the location of the disease, the severity of the condition and the prognosis.
1, normal people cupping, generally no jar image or not obvious, and the jar marks will soon disappear.
2, purple-black and dark, or purple with patches, indicating stasis of blood or cold. Such as stasis dysmenorrhea or insufficient blood supply to the heart, feeling wind and cold is also such a jar image.
3, scattered purple spots, varying in depth, for Qi stagnation and blood stasis.
4, light purple is generally a deficiency, bright red for heat, suggesting that the internal organs of the body have accumulated heat.
5, the jar image, such as in a large area after the jar, appear at a point, suggesting that the point related to internal organs pathology.