Benefits and Attentions of Cupping Therapy With a history of thousands of years in China, cupping therapy is an important part of the traditional Chinese Medicine, and is widely used in the medicine, surgery, gynaecology, dermatology, ENT, and other departments through promotion by modern medicine, alleviating and even preventing and treating more than a hundred common diseases.
Cupping therapy is an ancient treatment for many diseases. It is an alternative medicine that has been practiced over decades. In this therapy, the therapist uses a special fiber or glass cup on your body/skin for a couple of minutes in order to create suction
Benefits and Attentions of Cupping Therapy
With a history of thousands of years in China, cupping therapy is an important part of the traditional Chinese Medicine, and is widely used in the medicine, surgery, gynaecology, dermatology, ENT, and other departments through promotion by modern medicine, alleviating and even preventing and treating more than a hundred common diseases. However, hijama cannot be performed under all conditions. Techniques should be followed to take effect, but also know how to perform it in a scientific and effective manner, so that one can apply appropriate techniques to maximize the effects of cupping.
Benefits of Cupping Therapy:
Hijama therapy is applicable to a wide range of symptoms and has certain effects on a variety of diseases, which can be alleviated and treated by such methods as acupuncture, massage, traditional Chinese treatment, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. In particular, it has good effects on various painful diseases, soft tissue injuries, acute and chronic inflammations, syndrome of wind-cold dampness arthralgia, and symptoms resulting from dysfunction of internal organs and obstruction of channels.
Research has found that through the suction of skin, pores, meridians, and acupoints, cupping can guide the transport and distribution of qi in the body, promote qi and blood in meridians, nourish viscera, organs and tissues, warm the body, stimulate the functions of weak viscera, smoothen meridians, adjust the yin and yang balance of the organism, and also adjust qi and blood, thus achieving the purpose of improving health and warding off illness.
The negative pressure generated in the cup during hijama therapy can cause local capillary congestion and even rupture of red blood cells, epidermal blood stasis, and the phenomenon of haemolysis, and then produce a group of histamine and histamine-like substances which will flows all over the body with body fluid, stimulating organs, strengthening their functions and activities, and enhancing resistance of the body. Stimulation of negative pressure can cause dilation of local blood vessels, promote local blood circulation, improve the state of congestion, strengthen metabolism, change the status of local tissue nutrition, enhance the permeability of vascular wall and leukocyte phagocytosis activities, and strengthen the body’s physical fitness and immune capacity.
According to modern medicine hijama, the suction of pressure in the cup to local parts of the body can speed up blood and lymph circulation, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, improve digestion functions, as well as promote and accelerate the muscles and viscera to excrete and eliminate metabolites.
After long-term practice, cupping therapy, which developed among common folks, has formed such characteristics as varied tools, veases with the expansaried techniques, and wide applicable parts of the body. Therefore, it can alleviate the increasing number of dision of its scope of indications. Most diseases of internal medicine, gynaecology, traumatology, surgery, dermatology, ENT, and other departments can be alleviated applying hijama therapy with good curatives effects.
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