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Do you often feel stiffness and discomfort in your neck and shoulders?
Do you frequently experience tightness and soreness in your back muscles?
Do you often feel that you are not absorbing food well, with poor gastrointestinal function?
Do you often feel heavy and weak in your limbs when moving, and suspect that you have excessive dampness?
These issues, while not life-threatening, significantly reduce your quality of life.
If you have any of the above discomforts, we recommend you try this traditional treatment method—Yóu Zǒu Guàn (Moving Cupping).
What is Moving Cupping?
Moving cupping, also known as Tuī Guàn (Sliding Cupping), is a treatment method where the cup is moved back and forth on the skin, which has been lubricated with petroleum jelly or other agents, using negative pressure until the skin becomes red.
This technique can achieve effects such as relaxing muscles and tendons, dispelling cold and dampness, promoting qi and blood circulation, reducing swelling and pain, adjusting yin and yang, regulating gastrointestinal function, relieving fatigue, and enhancing physical strength.
It is characterized by being painless and non-invasive, safe to use, providing a mild warming sensation, and being easy to operate.
What are the indications and contraindications for Moving Cupping?
Indications:
1. Acute and chronic pain conditions: such as wind-cold-damp bi syndrome, cervical spondylosis, stiff neck, lumbar muscle strain, myofascial pain syndrome, soft tissue sprains, and lumbar disc herniation.
2. Internal medicine conditions: colds, coughs, asthma, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea, and poor gastrointestinal digestion and absorption.
Contraindications:
1. Fever, convulsions, or coagulation disorders.
2. Skin lesions, edema, or areas with large blood vessels.
3. Pregnant women should use caution on the abdomen and lower back.
4. Women during menstruation.
Precautions:
1. Prevent burns to the skin; if burns or blisters occur, small blisters do not need treatment, just cover with disinfected gauze to prevent rupture. For larger blisters, disinfect and use a syringe to extract the fluid, apply gentian violet, or cover with disinfected gauze to prevent infection.
2. Avoid performing the procedure immediately after excessive fatigue, hunger, extreme thirst, or intoxication; wait until recovery before proceeding.
3. After treatment, drink an appropriate amount of water to replenish lost fluids.
4. It is recommended to wear additional clothing after treatment to avoid invasion by wind and cold.
5. Do not take a shower immediately after moving cupping; wait about 3 hours before bathing.
6. The duration of cupping should not be excessively long to prevent blisters or skin damage.
7. Repeated cupping on the same area is not recommended to avoid damage and swelling of surrounding tissues.
What does the color of the cupping marks indicate?
After cupping, the local skin usually shows red marks, known as Guàn Bān (Cupping Marks). These typically dissipate within a week. We can use the color of the cupping marks to assess the body’s condition. Generally, the earlier the cupping marks appear, the darker the color, and the presence of blisters indicates heavier dampness and more toxins.
If you have any of the above discomforts, you are welcome to visit the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at Fudan University Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital Wusong Hospital for treatment~
Fudan University Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital Wusong Hospital
Introduction to the Rehabilitation Medicine Department
The Rehabilitation Medicine Department integrates medical care, education, research, and prevention, with a team of professional rehabilitation physicians and therapists.
Currently, it mainly conducts comprehensive rehabilitation medical work focusing on neurological diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, and postoperative rehabilitation, featuring a combination of modern rehabilitation treatments such as physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT), speech therapy (ST), and rehabilitation training with traditional Chinese medicine.
Since joining the Zhongshan Hospital medical alliance, we have invited Associate Chief Physician Qi Shaohua from the Rehabilitation Medicine Department of Zhongshan Hospital to provide guidance and open specialist outpatient services, allowing residents of Baoshan to enjoy high-level diagnostic and treatment services right at their doorstep.
Contributors: Zhang Ting, Sun Chaolei
Editor: Xie Lichunzi
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