Chinese Medicine Cupping Therapy

Cupping therapy is one of the oldest and most used globally natural medical treatment in history. It has been used for thousands of years in China, but in ancient Greece, Egypt, the Middle East and Europe, as well. In ancient times, bamboo, clay cups or even animal horns were initially used. Nowadays, the most common types used in clinical practice are glass cups, which requires a flame to create a vacuum effect before the cup is placed on the skin.

Plastic cups require a gun to draw the skin into it, and silicon cups are easy to use by just squeezing them with the fingers. The functions and benefits of cupping therapy in Bellmore include moving blood and improving circulation, for muscle tension and stiffness, arthritis, sports injury, fibromyalgia and more. Cupping is also used for women’s issues, especially for menstruation pain.

It also helps expel external pathogens to relieve colds and flus. It also can help patients with asthma, bronchitis and allergies. Cupping is a great detoxifier and is used often for hangovers. It is also used for lymphatic drainage and for those have a lot of water retention, edema and toxicity. Finally, it is fantastic for releasing fascia for those with a lot of pain and stiffness.

The most common applications of cupping therapy are fixed cupping, whereby a single or multiple cups are placed on the painful area or on an acupuncture point, and are retained for 5 to 15 minutes. Quick cupping is a technique in which cups are placed on an acupuncture point and removed immediately, then repeated many times over.

This is often used on very weak and severely deficient people. Oiling a large area and moving the cup back and forth while the suction is in effect is often used for fascia release and lymphatic drainage. With little cupping, is placed over a needle, which has been inserted in an acupuncture point. That is used to enhance the action of the point.

Finally, wet cupping, where a cup is placed over an acupuncture point that has been pricked by a Lancet needle prior to cupping it, and then drawing blood from the body with a cup. This is used mostly to detoxify. Cupping therapy should be performed by a qualified practitioner and it is not recommended on sensitive or broken skin or also for people with excess hair, especially, moving cupping or firing cupping, as well as on the number or abdominal region of pregnant women.

And yes, cupping therapy may result in bruises, which generally dissipates within 3 to 10 days.