After cupping, is the bruise sucked from the back a 'toxin'? Don't be fooled next time

With the improvement of people's health awareness, people of different age groups have different health methods. Middle-aged women often apply for beauty cards and go to beauty salons for corresponding meridian conditioning to achieve the effect of relieving and relaxing various parts and organs of the body.

Middle-aged male friends are often tired due to physical fatigue. They choose massage, massage, and cupping to help the body achieve the effect of relieving fatigue.

Cupping is an ancient treatment method in Chinese traditional medicine. It has multiple functions such as dispelling dampness and cold, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, and dredging meridians. It is deeply loved by the general public. Moreover, due to the simple operation, many people will operate it at home.

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Do you know the principle of cupping?

Cupping is one of the physical therapy methods of traditional Chinese medicine. It mainly increases the negative pressure in the tank through exhaust, so that the mouth of the tank can be tightly attached to the skin surface.

Pull local skin nerves, muscles, blood vessels and subcutaneous glands, cause a series of neuroendocrine reactions, regulate vascular comfort, contractile function and vascular permeability, and improve local blood circulation.

Cupping negative pressure causes local congestion, blood stasis, and even small capillary rupture, red blood cell destruction, hemolysis, and red blood cell release of hemoglobin are benign stimuli to the body.

It can bidirectionally regulate the functions of tissues and organs through the nervous system, promote the phagocytosis of white blood cells, and improve the skin's sensitivity and tolerance to external changes, thereby enhancing the body's immunity.

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What are the health benefits of cupping?

dehumidification

Cupping can play a role in dispelling dampness and helps to expel water from the body. At the same time, fatigue, dizziness and other conditions can be improved. Cupping can accelerate blood circulation and clear the meridians.

promote blood circulation

Microcirculation refers to the exchange between blood and tissues in the body. Regulation of microcirculation is of great significance to physiology and pathology, and can also enhance lymphatic circulation.

In the process of cupping, histamine can be produced, which flows to the whole body with the blood circulation, stimulates various organs in the body, enhances their vitality, and improves mental metabolism.

Harmonize viscera

Cupping therapy is mainly through the knotting of meridians and local acupoints to generate negative pressure attraction, so that the acupoints of our body are congested and blood stasis. healthier.

relieve fatigue

After the work pressure increases, various problems will appear in the body, which will affect both life and work. Now the nature of work remains the same, the steering is longer than the office, and lumbar disc problems will occur if you don’t sit still. If you don’t pay attention for a long time, it will easily cause lumbar muscle strain.

Improve human immunity

Cupping can maintain human cells, enhance cell activity, and help the body exudate white blood cells. Through this effect, it can help the body improve immunity, make the body's beneficial cells have stronger tolerance, and can enhance human immunity to prevent the arrival of various diseases , and has adjuvant therapeutic effect on certain diseases.

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After cupping, the bruise sucked out later is "toxin". Don't be fooled next time?

After cupping, the cupping is removed. Generally, physical therapists will tell you that the darker the color, the heavier the toxins in the body, and even the size of the blisters varies.

According to different constitutions, we will find that some people have deep traces after cupping, while others have very shallow traces. Many people think that the darker the marks, the greater the humidity in the body and the worse the body. Bruises on the back are toxins in the body. is this real?

Chinese medicine believes that the traces on the body after cupping really represent the health status of the body. For example, the traces are dark purple and black, indicating that there is blood stasis in the body, which may be caused by poor menstrual blood and insufficient blood supply to the heart.

Blood stasis in cupping is actually caused by the rupture of capillaries in the skin. The depth of blood stasis has nothing to do with the amount of toxins, mostly with the thickness of the skin

The depth of the marks is related to the duration of cupping and the intensity of negative pressure, and does not necessarily mean wind, dampness, or silt.

If the capillary itself is relatively fragile, the bruise will be relatively deep. The subcutaneous fat is more, the capillaries are thicker, and the blood stasis is relatively shallow.

Generally speaking, the blood stains left by cupping will disappear after 3 to 7 days. If there is no sign of dissipation after 3 to 7 days, and local redness and swelling occur, you should go to the hospital for examination. It may be a problem caused by allergies, and it should be treated in time to prevent it from worsening.

It should be noted that the cupping time should not be too long, otherwise it is easy to burn the skin and cause skin infection. Generally speaking, cupping takes 5-15 minutes at a time. People with good physique can take a longer cupping time, while those with weak physique should control the time reasonably.

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Cupping is risky, five points to pay attention to

don't take a shower right away

The skin is fragile after cupping. Do not take a bath right away at this time, because the skin is prone to breakage and inflammation. 1~2 hours before bathing. When taking a bath, the water temperature should be raised slightly to avoid catching a cold

Some parts cannot be cupped

A lot of people think that I'm going to pull out the uncomfortable parts, which is also wrong. The apical impulse of the chest is not suitable for cupping. Cupping cannot be used for local skin burns, ulcers, infections and tumors. During cupping, pregnant women should avoid abdominal and lumbosacral miscarriage.

People with skin allergies should not cupping

Such people are also not suitable for cupping. If the skin is allergic, the allergy will be aggravated during cupping, and even skin ulcers will occur.

Cupping can not cure all diseases

Some unscrupulous Chinese medicine practitioners and charlatans will say that cupping can cure all diseases, and that cupping can solve problems and "eliminate gas." According to modern medical books, cupping can activate the body's lymphatic system, arteries, veins and capillaries.

pregnant or menstruating women

Cupping is not easy for this type of women. I don’t know that pregnant women have a special constitution. Cupping at this time will induce a heart abortion. If a girl is cupping during menstruation, it will always be discharged through blood, so these two types of people do not cupping.

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Further Reading - Cupping Dangers

Cupping uses high-concentration alcohol to burn the gas in the tank, which generates negative pressure and adsorbs on the skin surface, which is a dangerous process

Be sure to find an experienced doctor to operate. The technology should be fast and clean, and the gas in the tank should be fully burned, and not burned for too long, otherwise the skin will be burned if the temperature is too high.

Compared with cupping, bamboo jars, earthenware jars, glass jars, and suction jars are safer. At least there is no alcohol to ignite, which can greatly reduce the probability of burns.