Cupping is generally used for the treatment of muscles suffering from cold or sprain. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cupping can relieve the body, strengthen the body and eliminate evil, dredge the meridians, and adjust the blood.
The disease is caused by the prosperous and partial decline of the body's Yin and Yang due to pathogenic factors, the abnormal rise and fall of the body's qi machine, and the dysfunction of viscera and blood. When the human body is attacked by wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, fire, poison, trauma, or internal injury, it can cause visceral dysfunction and produce pathological products, such as congestion, stagnation of qi, phlegm, saliva, and food. Muddy water, evil fire, etc., these pathological products are also pathogenic factors. They travel through the body through the meridians and acupoints, reversing the qi machine, and stagnating the viscera; blocking the meridians, eventually leading to various diseases.
The vacuum negative pressure produced by cupping has a strong suction and extraction force. Its suction and extraction force acts on the meridian points, which can suck open the pores and make the skin congested, so that the pathological products in the body can be sucked out of the skin pores. The qi and blood of the meridians can be dredged, so that the functions of the viscera can be adjusted to achieve the purpose of preventing and curing diseases.
Meridians have the physiological function of "promoting qi and blood, energizing yin and yang, squeezing the muscles and bones, and strengthening joints". If the meridians are blocked, the qi is not smooth, and the blood is stagnant, and the skin, flesh, muscles, veins and joints may lose nutrition and shrink and become unfavorable. , Or the bloodline is not honorable, the six fu-organs are not fortune, etc. Through the suction and pulling effect of cupping on the skin, pores, meridians, and acupuncture points, it can guide the qi of Ying and Wei to infuse the cloth, agitate the qi and blood of the meridians, nourish the tissues and organs of the viscera, warm the skin and fur, and at the same time invigorate the function of the weak viscera. Unblock the meridians, adjust the balance of yin and yang of the body, adjust the qi and blood, so as to achieve the purpose of fitness, curing diseases and curing diseases.
Modern medicine believes that the negative pressure formed in the cupping treatment can cause local capillary congestion or even rupture, red blood cell rupture, epidermal congestion, and self-hemolysis, which immediately produces a histamine and histamine-like substance, which will follow body fluids. Flow through the body, stimulate various organs, enhance their functional activities, and improve the body's resistance.
The stimulation of cupping negative pressure can dilate local blood vessels, promote local blood circulation, improve congestion, strengthen metabolism, change local tissue nutrition, enhance blood vessel wall permeability and leukocyte phagocytic activity, and enhance body energy and human immunity.