What are the benefits of cupping for men

Cupping is also a common treatment method in traditional Chinese medicine. Since cupping can achieve a significant therapeutic effect on the human body and can relieve the symptoms of back pain to a certain extent, more and more people choose cupping. Because the bodies of men and women are different, the benefits brought to the body during cupping are also different. So what are the benefits of cupping for men?

Is cupping good for men?

1. Balance Yin and Yang

When Yang is strong, it will cause heat, and when Yin is strong, it will cause cold. Fever is a manifestation of strong Yang, while chills and colds are symptoms of strong Yin. At this time, cupping at Dazhui can treat fever diseases, and cupping at Guanyuan can treat cold diseases.

2. Harmonize the internal organs

Cupping therapy generates negative pressure attraction at local points on the meridians and acupuncture points, causing changes such as congestion and blood stasis at the points on the surface of the body. The points are connected to the internal organs through the meridians, thereby treating various internal organ diseases.

3. Clear the meridians

Cupping therapy stimulates the acupuncture points and the skin of the meridians through its warm mechanical stimulation and negative pressure suction, which are closely connected to the meridians. Therefore, cupping can dredge the meridians, harmonize the nutrient and defensive systems, remove various pathogenic evil spirits in the meridians, make the qi and blood flow smoothly, and nourish and open the tendons, veins and joints, thereby treating various diseases.

4. Can assist in diagnosis

Observing the changes in the body surface after cupping can deduce the nature of the disease and the relationship with the internal organs.

The benefits of cupping for men have been introduced in detail above. In fact, cupping can dredge the meridians, and it can also cure diseases, eliminate swelling and stop bleeding, and relieve fatigue. Many men in society will go for cupping, but when doing so, it is also necessary to pay attention to certain postures and even some precautions. Just because cupping has the above benefits, many men will do it.

Disadvantages of Cupping

During cupping therapy, the air in the cup gradually disappears as the alcohol burns, forming a strong adsorption force. The suction force of the cup can cause local capillaries to become congested or even rupture, and even rupture red blood cells. In severe cases, autolysis may occur. In addition, although cupping has a certain therapeutic effect on human tissue pain, it is only an auxiliary treatment method of traditional Chinese medicine and cannot cure all diseases.

Although the side effects of cupping are not obvious, long-term and excessive cupping over a large area will damage the body's vital energy and damage the skin tissue. Many people blindly follow cupping and think that all diseases can be treated with cupping. So they cup every day, and blood stasis appears on their bodies every day. Not only does the disease not get cured, but the body gets worse and worse. This is caused by not paying attention to the side effects of cupping.

The main side effects of cupping are skin injuries, because long-term blood stasis causes great damage to skin cells, which accelerates cell division, makes cell walls thinner and easier to rupture, and easily causes symptoms of skin inflammation and suppuration.

In addition to damage to the skin, cupping has many other disadvantages. The most important disadvantage is the rejection of the body's immune system, making the body more susceptible to illness and inflammation.

Although cupping is good, it is not advisable to do it blindly and excessively. In addition, during and after cupping, you should pay attention to keeping warm to avoid cooling the cupping area.

These people are not suitable for cupping

1. Pregnant women and women during menstruation. Especially pregnant women’s abdomen and lumbar sacral area, cupping is not suitable. If pregnant women perform improper cupping, it may cause threatened abortion, etc. The same is true during menstruation. If you cup the lower abdomen or lumbar sacral area during menstruation, it will cause excessive menstruation.

2. Cupping is not suitable for patients with high fever, convulsions and spasms. For patients with epilepsy, it should be used during the interval period.

3. Patients with bleeding tendency should use with caution, and should avoid pricking or cupping to avoid causing heavy bleeding.

4. For patients with severe emphysema, negative pressure suction on the back and chest is not suitable. Cupping should not be used for patients with heart failure or weak constitution.

5. People with skin allergies or skin injuries. Cupping may aggravate allergic symptoms, and you should not cup ulcers on your skin, as it can easily cause infection, blisters, and aggravate ulcers.

6. Do not use cupping before the fracture is completely healed to avoid affecting the fracture alignment and healing. Do not use cupping for patients with acute joint sprains, such as ligament rupture.

7. People who have had enough food and drink. The blood flows to the liver for metabolism. When cupping is done, the qi and blood are forcibly directed to the cupping area, causing the heart to beat a few more times to speed up blood supply, which can easily cause dizziness, nausea and other discomforts.

8. Cupping is not suitable for ulcers and ruptures on the skin. Cupping is not suitable for ulcers when the ulcers are red, swollen, hot and painful and the pus is immature. Cupping is contraindicated for facial swelling to avoid serious consequences. Cupping is also not suitable for local lumps of unknown cause.