Cupping is a traditional health-preserving project in my country. It uses heat to remove the air in the pot, and uses negative pressure to make it suck on the skin, causing blood stasis, so as to achieve the purpose of maintaining health and relieving fatigue.

Then do you know that the blood stasis sucked out by cupping is a toxin in the body? What are the benefits of cupping on the human body? Let's find out together.

What is cupping?

Cupping is a traditional Chinese medicine treatment method. It uses a cup as a tool to generate suction by burning fire or negative pressure, stimulating local tissues to form blood stasis, stimulating local acupuncture points, adjusting yin and yang, dredging meridians, activating qi and promoting blood circulation, and removing toxins. It has the functions of adjusting the balance of yin and yang of the human body and enhancing physical fitness.

Is the blood stasis sucked out by cupping a toxin in the body?

During cupping, if the skin is intact, if a lot of black blood clots are pulled out, most of the patient's qi and blood are very stagnant, and purple or black may appear after pulling out. Traditional Chinese medicine also has the method of pricking the collaterals and cupping.

Pulling out the black blood stasis in the body can rebuild the microcirculation in the body, achieve the effect of activating qi and blood, and relieving pain. When cupping appears black blood stasis, it means that the body is very blood stasis, and it needs to pierce collaterals and cupping, massage, scraping and other treatment methods to activate qi and blood.

Therefore, blood stasis is not a toxin. After normal cupping, a bluish-purple ecchymosis will appear on the skin. In fact, it is the result of the rupture of subcutaneous capillaries, which is the cause of dampness and cold in the body. There is no need to worry.

The benefits of cupping on the body

1. Repel cold and dehumidify

Cupping can remove moisture from the body, but not all moisture can be removed by cupping. First of all, it is necessary to distinguish whether the moisture in the body is internal or external.

If it is the humidity caused by exogenous wind evil, the effect of cupping is very obvious. However, cupping has little effect on the internal dampness caused by eating a lot of cold and greasy food.

2. Unblock the meridians

Among the benefits of cupping, dredging the meridians is the most prominent point. The blood circulation of the human body is smooth, the body will naturally be healthy, and the disease will be far away from you.

The body's acupuncture points and tendons are closely connected with the meridians, so cupping can dredge the meridians, regulate qi and blood, and can effectively eliminate various pathogenic evils in the meridians. The smooth flow of qi and blood in the human body can nourish the muscles, veins and joints, so it can effectively treat and prevent various diseases.

3. Warm meridians and dispel cold

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, cupping, especially cupping, can warm the meridians and dispel cold by stimulating the acupuncture points on the body surface. From the analysis of modern medicine, the warm stimulation of cupping can dilate blood vessels and promote local blood circulation.

It can speed up metabolism, accelerate the excretion of wastes and toxins in the body, and change the nutritional status of local tissues. It can also enhance the phagocytic activity of leukocytes and reticulocytes, enhance the permeability of blood vessel walls, and enhance local tolerance and the body's resistance.

4. Lose weight

The reason why cupping can lose weight is that it mainly stimulates certain acupoints to clear the meridians, so as to achieve the effect of losing weight.

But once the cupping to lose weight is stopped, it is easy to rebound. Therefore, if you want to lose weight, it is best to lose weight through a reasonable diet and aerobic exercise.

5. Enhance immunity

Cupping can also increase the body's immunity, because when cupping, the negative pressure will make the skin absorb and expand, which can stimulate the skin and expand local capillaries. This can effectively promote the local blood circulation to speed up and increase the blood flow on the local skin.

Cupping can also speed up the removal of metabolic wastes in the blood, supplement the nutrients the body needs, help identify and eliminate harmful substances in the body, and effectively enhance human immunity.