Cupping Therapy for Dampness: Recommended Acupuncture Points
1. Dazhui (Great Vertebra) Point
[Indications]
Fever, malaria, cough, wheezing, bone steaming heat, stiff neck, shoulder and back pain, lumbar stiffness, convulsions in children, epilepsy, fatigue from five types of labor, seven injuries, heat stroke, cholera, vomiting, jaundice, wind rash.
2. Fengmen (Wind Gate) Point
[Indications]
1. Cold, cough, fever, headache;
2. Stiff neck, chest and back pain.
3. Gaohuangyu (Gao Huang Point)
[Indications]
1. Respiratory diseases: Tuberculosis, bronchitis, asthma;
2. Others: Chronic gastritis, gastric bleeding, neurasthenia, pleurisy, mastitis, anemia.
3. This point is commonly used for various chronic deficiency diseases.
4. Piyu (Spleen Shu) Point
[Indications]
Back pain and spleen-stomach disorders: abdominal distension, diarrhea, dysentery, vomiting, poor appetite, edema, etc.
5. Mingmen (Life Gate) Point
[Indications]
Deficiency-related low back pain, enuresis, diarrhea, nocturnal emissions, impotence, premature ejaculation, leukorrhea, irregular menstruation, recurrent miscarriage, inability to sweat, cold-heat malaria, childhood convulsions, gastric prolapse, prostatitis, renal insufficiency.
6. Chengshan (Support Mountain) Point
[Indications]
1. Calf cramps (gastrocnemius muscle spasm), foot fatigue, knee fatigue, low back pain, natural landmark point selection for low back and leg pain.
2. Constipation, prolapse, hemorrhoids, etc. This point is one of the important points on the Bladder Meridian of the Foot Taiyang, commonly used for calf cramps and leg spasms. Point combination: Combine with Dachangshu (Large Intestine Shu) point for treating hemorrhoids.
7. Weizhong (Middle of the Crook) Point
[Indications]
1. Low back pain, lower limb weakness and other lumbar and lower limb diseases.
2. Abdominal pain, acute vomiting and diarrhea.
3. Urinary difficulty, enuresis.
4. Erysipelas.
Cupping can effectively dispel dampness and also regulate the following diseases
1. Cold – Cupping point treatment method
2. Frequent colds, bronchitis – Cupping point treatment method
3. Pulmonary emphysema, asthma – Cupping point treatment method
4. Gastroenteritis – Cupping point treatment method
5. Gastric diseases – Cupping point treatment method
6. Hiccups, cholecystitis – Cupping point treatment method
7. Abdominal pain, colitis – Cupping point treatment method
8. Constipation – Cupping point treatment method
9. Esophagitis, urinary infections – Cupping point treatment method
10. Prostatitis, benign prostatic hyperplasia – Cupping point treatment method
11. Varicose veins – Cupping point treatment method
12. Facial nerve paralysis, weakness – Cupping point treatment method
13. Headache, neuritis – Cupping point treatment method
14. Migraine, occipital neuralgia – Cupping point treatment method
15. Low fever, weight loss – Cupping point treatment method
16. Dryness, stiff neck – Cupping point treatment method
17. Shoulder periarthritis, cervical spondylosis – Cupping point treatment method
18. Wrist injury, lumbar sprain – Cupping point treatment method
19. Low back pain, hyperplasia, lumbar disc herniation – Cupping point treatment method
20. Low back and shoulder pain, sciatica – Cupping point treatment method
21. Heel pain, ankle sprain – Cupping point treatment method
22. Cold limbs – Cupping point treatment method
23. Arthritis, joint hyperplasia – Cupping point treatment method
Body reactions after cupping:
1. Purple-black – Insufficient blood supply, accumulation of cold;
2. Purple with black spots – Qi and blood stagnation;
3. Purple spots with uneven lumps – Wind-damp;
4. Bright red and hot locally – Yang syndrome, heat syndrome, excess syndrome, heat toxin, body constitution yin deficiency, excessive fire;
5. Dark – High blood lipids, insufficient blood supply;
6. Bruises or blood blisters gray-white, pale – Yang deficiency, dampness;
7. Slight itching of the skin – Wind pathogen, dampness;
8. Blisters, edema, dampness – Cold syndrome, excessive dampness;
9. Water droplets in the cup – Heavy cold and dampness;
10. Purple-red, dark red – Yin syndrome, cold syndrome, blood stasis;
11. Flush, light red – Deficiency syndrome;
12. Rapid recovery to original state – Indicates quick recovery.
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