Since ancient times, cupping is a kind of treatment method for disease prevention and treatment, and for the purpose of strengthening the body. It is also a kind of health care therapy highly praised by Chinese medicine. So what are the changes of different colors of cupping skin on behalf of the body? Follow the editor to learn about it.
What are the benefits of cupping in summer?
Cupping therapy has the effects of sweating, relieving the symptoms, promoting qi and blood circulation, detumescence and relieving pain, warming the meridians and dispersing cold. In addition to relieving summer heat and dampness, cupping in summer is also conducive to solving the sweat hole occlusion caused by the air conditioning environment, and the internal accumulation of summer heat can not be divergent, thus causing various diseases of cold and dampness. The vacuum negative pressure produced by cupping can suck the pores open and make the skin congest. The pathological products in the body can be sucked out from the pores of the skin, so that the Qi and blood of the meridians can be dredged, the function of the viscera can be adjusted, and the purpose of preventing and treating diseases such as removing dampness, relieving summer heat and cold can be achieved.
Skin color identification after cupping
1. After the can is lifted, there is no pot mark, or although there is pot mark, it disappears immediately, and the skin recovers as usual, indicating that the body is basically normal or the disease is light.
2. Purple black and dark can mark: generally, it means that the blood supply is insufficient and there is blood stasis in the course of dysmenorrhea.
3. Can printed purple and accompanied by plaque: Generally speaking, cold coagulation and stasis.
4. The pot mark is scattered in purple dot shape, and the depth is one, indicating qi stagnation and blood stasis.
5. Bright red and bright can seal: Generally speaking, it means Yin deficiency, deficiency of Qi and blood, or yin deficiency and fire.
6. Red and dark pot mark: it means high blood fat and heat evil.
7. The pot mark is gray and white. It is not warm when touched. It is mostly due to cold or damp evil.
8. The blue color of the pot mark indicates cold.
9. Large area of black and purple mark appears after walking the pot, indicating feeling of wind chill.
10. There are dermatoglyphics or slight itching on the surface of the pot mark, indicating wind evil or damp disease.
11. Moisture on the inner wall of the tank: it means there is moisture in this part.
12. There are blisters in the can seal, indicating that the body is wet. If there is blood in the blister, it is the reaction of damp heat poison.
After cupping, the purple spots on the skin usually disappear in two weeks.