What are the benefits of fire cupping for your body and mind?

Cupping or fire-cupping is a fantastic therapeutic method for pain alleviation. Placing the cups over injured regions can help with circulation, detoxification, and myofascial relief. This may be the ideal method for you if you have chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, or want to boost your circulation. Back pain, myofascial release, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, anxiety, persistent headaches, neuralgia, and exhaustion are all common illnesses for which cupping is utilized.

 

What Does Cupping works?

 

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) cupping therapy gave birth to modern cupping massage. The TCM practitioner sets a flame inside a glass, pottery, or bamboo cup in traditional cupping therapy. The practitioner swiftly lays the open end of the cup on your body after the flame sucks the oxygen out of the cup, creating a vacuum.

 

The vacuum in the cup creates suction and a negative pressure seal on your skin, lifting your skin and underlying tissue. This stimulation increases qi flow by causing blood to rush to the spot. TCM practitioners usually leave the cups in place (stationary cupping) for about ten minutes, though they occasionally move the cups (running cupping) in a massage-like manner.

 

What are the various methods of cupping?

 

Cupping can be done in various methods, including stationary, sliding, and wet cupping. Cups are placed on the patient and remain motionless in stationary cupping. Muscle aches, chronic headaches, and detoxifying are the most common uses. Where the cups are positioned, stationary cupping leaves circular markings.

 

It is important to note that these are not bruises and do not have the appearance of bruises. Massage oil is administered to the patient's back, and two fire cups are placed on their back.

The cups are then moved across the back, focusing on painful and tight places. Sliding cupping, commonly used for back pain and myofascial release, leaves the back red with a few lighter red scars where the cups were originally put. Sliding cupping can be used to treat colds and is easily integrated with acupuncture treatments.

 

Wet cupping, also known as blood cupping, is a type of cupping that involves making microscopic incisions in the skin using a lancet. Blood is drawn out by placing the cup over the wounds. 

 

This is essentially a bloodletting procedure. The cupping marks can last from three days to two weeks, depending on the type done, the amount of suction utilized, and how long they're on the back.

 

After a cupping massage, the skin becomes crimson, indicating that blood rises to the surface. The suction pulls the skin up into the cup, forcing the blood vessels on the surface to dilate. Because a small amount of blood may leak from peripheral capillaries, this suction might cause discolouration. Within a few days, the discolouration normally dissipates.