How do you do fire cupping at home? What props are needed? How to operate?

First of all, we should pay attention to the selection of materials, traditional Chinese medicine mostly use bamboo tubes, if you can not find, glass bottles, ceramic cups can be, just the mouth must be thick and smooth, so as to avoid the mouth of the cupping is too thin to hurt the skin, the bottom of the best wide semi-circular.

Before cupping, the can should be washed and dried, and then let the patient lie down or sit comfortably, revealing the parts to be cupped, and then ignited into the can. Ignition generally use a hand to hold the can, the other hand to take the probe has been lit on fire, the operation should be rapid, the probe will be on fire in the can after a few shakes withdrawn, will be quickly placed on the part of the can to be treated The fire is still burning when the mouth of the can to cover the tightly in the affected area, can not wait for the fire to extinguish, otherwise it is too loose, is not conducive to the inhalation of dampness, the mouth of the can should be sucked in the body of the feeling of the body tightly only good. Be careful not to burn the edge of the jar mouth to prevent burns.

Generally 15 to 20 minutes to pull the cans can be removed, do not force to pull the cans, do not pull and turn, the action is to tilt the cans to one side of the hand, the other hand pressure on the skin, so that the air through the gap into the cans, cans will naturally be disconnected from the skin.

Walking can also be used. Walking cans means that after the cans cover, with one hand or two hands to grasp the cans, slightly upward, pushing and pulling the cans in the patient's skin to move. It can be moved in one direction or back and forth. In this way, several parts of the treatment. Walking cans should pay attention to in want to walk cans parts or cans mouth smear some lubricants, such as glycerin, paraffin oil, gua sha oil, etc., in order to prevent walking cans when pulling the skin