Is cupping useful? What are the advantages and disadvantages of cupping?

Cupping has become very popular in recent years. Sometimes people use it to treat diseases, and sometimes people use it to lose weight. Although cupping is a traditional physical therapy method in Chinese medicine, it has both advantages and disadvantages to the human body when people use it. Before using it, you must have a comprehensive understanding of it to avoid adverse effects on the body.

Cupping Benefits

1. Relieve pain and fatigue

Cupping can usually relieve soreness and fatigue. In life, when people's muscles are in a tense state, the local blood flow will decrease, and muscle soreness will occur. Cupping can stretch the muscles, increase blood flow, improve local pain tolerance, relax tense muscles, and alleviate people's body soreness and fatigue symptoms.

2. Drug Abuse and Pus Discharge

Draining toxins and pus is also one of the important benefits of cupping. When people have local lesions and produce pus and venom, they can directly use cupping to drain the venom and pus out of the body. This not only removes the venom in the body, but also stimulates tissue cell regeneration and accelerates wound healing.

3. Improve body immunity

Regular cupping can also improve the human body's own immune function. After cupping, tissue gaps with residual blood stasis will appear on the skin surface, which can properly activate the body's immune cells, enhance the body's anti-inflammatory ability, and accelerate the metabolism of free radicals in the body. At this time, the body's immunity will increase accordingly.

Disadvantages of cupping

Although cupping has many benefits for the human body, it also has certain disadvantages. In particular, those who frequently cupping will damage their skin, which can cause skin infection and severe bruising, which is very bad for skin health. For those who suffer from inflammatory or hemorrhagic diseases, cupping will make their physical condition worse, which is not conducive to physical recovery. This is also a common disadvantage of cupping.