Change your Qi, Heal Your body
With Chinese Cupping Medicine

Chinese cupping medicine for many ailments. It is a traditional technique that is used either on its own to relieve the suffering of a patient, or in addition to other existing treatments. It is said that this technique influences the flow of blood and Qi throughout the body and the meridians.

Cupping was originally referred to as horn therapy, but there are a number of other variations that were adopted in many other countries, including Eastern Europe, France, Greece, Italy, South America and Turkey. The tradition it has both been used in conjunction with acupuncture, and also as a therapy all on its own.

Chinese cupping medicine is also gaining popularity as a treatment for muscular pain, bone spasms and bone pain, and specifically issues relating to the shoulders and back. The therapy can stimulate micro blood circulation to the area where the treatment is applied.

It involves a comprehensive diagnosis, which begins with questioning the patient about their problem, a tongue diagnosis, pulse examination, and other methods.

The primary goal is to balance and improve the flow of blood and Qi. When these things have been influenced negatively by injury or illness, blood stagnation will occur, which results in pain.

Chinese cupping medicine involves creating a vacuum seal on your skin, which is done using a burning cotton ball held in forceps, which is placed in and outside of an upside down glass cup to exhaust the oxygen inside. Once done, the cup is then placed directly onto the skin, and held in place by strong suction.

The skin inside the cup can actually rise visibly in response to the suction. While there are also cups available that make use of a hand pump rather than the burning, the burning process is still considered to be the traditional means of Chinese cupping medicine.

The area on your body that is being treated receives more than a single cup at once, in a number of different sizes, until the entire area is covered. Cups can either be removed quickly, or left on for several minutes.

In some traditional treatments, cups are placed over acupuncture needles. Cupping draws the blood to the skin's surface, which can cause red marks, bruising and swelling to appear, but these marks will subside after a period of a few hours to a few days.

The fire causes the air pressure within the jar to be drastically reduced, so the skin will be sucked up inside when the cup is placed down on the skin. It is believed that this will draw the cold, the wind and the damp out of your body for which Chinese cupping medicine is ideally suited. If a qualified oriental medicine doctor performs the process, it is considered to be both safe and useful.

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