What is the difference between fire cupping and gas cupping?

September 16, 2023

Cupping is a traditional Chinese medical method, with the slow popularity of cupping, we can not only see the traditional fire cupping therapy, gas cupping therapy also began to gradually enter the line of sight, so what is the difference between the two ways of cupping?

The principle of generating negative pressure is different

Fire cupping is the use of combustion methods to burn off the oxygen in the jar, so as to achieve the effect of negative pressure; gas cupping is a vacuum, is the use of vacuum pumping methods to achieve the effect of negative pressure.

Different effects

Fire cans have heat penetration and warming effect, which can dispel wind and cold; while gas cans have no warming effect and are less effective in treating diseases caused by wind and cold.

Different materials

Traditional fire cans are made of bamboo tubes, currently more commonly used is the glass cupping jars; gas cans are transparent, but most are not made of glass, in favor of plastic industrial products.

Different operation methods

In the difference between fire and gas cupping, the operation method is also different, relatively speaking, the gas cupping operation is relatively simple, as long as the air is pumped out of the can; while the fire cupping requires the practitioner to have a certain skill, otherwise it is easy to burn the patient's skin.

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