What are the health benefits of cupping

Since the Rio Olympics, the swimmer Phelps body cupping marks, Chinese characteristics of cupping and a boom, it is sought after around the world for its unique charm. So, what are the benefits of cupping and do you know them all?

Cupping can get rid of dampness in the body

Because modern people do not exercise, sedentary, drinking cold water, eating iced drinks, blowing air conditioning, and poor digestion of the spleen and stomach, all tend to lead to the accumulation of dampness in the body. Fire cupping can help dispel cold dampness and activate blood circulation through the diarrhea method of Chinese medicine. Swimmers are very good at using cupping to expel dampness because they are in the water for a long time.

Cupping can open up the meridians

Cupping can be done through specific acupuncture points with the interplay of the cupping method to reach the tendons and meridians through the surface acupuncture points, playing a role in unblocking the meridians and balancing yin and yang. For example, cupping near Hua Tuo's jiaoji point can unblock the meridians of the five viscera and six internal organs, adjust the coordination of qi, blood and meridians throughout the body, and enhance the body's ability to resist disease.

Cupping can improve blood circulation

Through suction, cupping can fully open the pores and pull the skin, which can cause a series of neurological and endocrine system reactions that can regulate the vasodilation and contraction function and the permeability of the blood vessel wall, thus improving the blood circulation of the whole body.

Fire cupping can relieve muscle fatigue

Cupping can improve the operation of qi and blood in the organism, and is effective in activating blood circulation, relieving spasm and pain, and relieving fatigue in the shoulders, back and neck muscles that are sore, overwhelmed and weak due to excessive exertion and blood stagnation.

Fire cupping can lose weight and slim down

Cupping can be used to lose weight by stimulating acupoints and adjusting meridians to strengthen the spleen and kidneys to achieve this goal. It can select acupoints according to the location of obesity, follow the meridians to promote local metabolism and eliminate local fat to achieve the effect of local weight loss.

Fire cupping can enhance the immune system

Modern medical research has proven that there are a large number of extremely useful immune cells hidden under the skin of the human back. If cupping is used to activate them and make them enter the blood circulation, they can become net-like cells with the ability to swallow foreign substances, which can actively destroy harmful germs and improve the immunity of the body.

Fire cupping can treat some diseases

Fire cupping is useful for treating rheumatic pain, old cold leg, lumbar back muscle strain, lumbar disc herniation, sore tendons and bones, cold and headache due to wind and cold, abdominal pain and asthma.