Experts interviewed: Deputy Director of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Ma Lixin
Scrapping and cupping are one of the traditional methods of traditional Chinese medicine. When many people feel uncomfortable, especially when they are tired, they often go to pull a can and do a scraping to relieve fatigue and release pressure. But everything is too far, scraping, Cupping can not always be done.
Chinese medicine believes that scraping and squeezing can cause turbidity in the body and evacuation of evil air by causing partial blood stasis. However, at this time, the pores open, and yang is also easily escaping. Therefore, too much, too often scraping, cupping , it will damage the yang, but people will become weaker and weaker.
Under normal circumstances, scraping for the purpose of treatment, cupping 3 to 7 days to do once, specifically to follow the doctor's advice; scraping for health purposes for a week can be. Each scraping, cupping time should not be too long, scraping every time 25~30 minutes is appropriate, the jar left time should not exceed 10 minutes, the weak people should do subtraction on this basis.
In addition, in order to avoid loss of yang, scraping should not be performed at the same time in multiple locations. It is also not suitable for cupping in a large area at one time. Scraping, how much can be printed after the cupping, and the depth of color, the speed of dissipating is related to people's physique, condition , should not be forced.
