What is cupping? What is the difference between cupping therapy and acupuncture?

Cupping is a kind of therapy, which uses cups and cans as tools to expel air by heating, resulting in negative pressure, which is absorbed on the skin and makes the blood stagnate. Ancient doctors used it to suck blood and expel pus when treating sores and abscesses, and later it was extended to medical diseases such as tuberculosis and rheumatism. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, cupping therapy has made new development, further expanding the scope of treatment and becoming an important therapy in acupuncture treatment. The characteristics and principle of cupping device are that the rapid cupping device innovates the traditional ignition and exhaust mode into the dynamic vacuum exhaust mode of manipulator, which is safe, reliable and convenient to operate, and can be designed into different sizes according to body position, making it more convenient to use. It solves the shortcomings of traditional cupping device, such as easy scalding, limited cupping position and small application range. A-type tank is equipped with a unique injection hole, which can inject symptomatic external drugs according to the doctor's advice. Pulling cupping instruments on human acupoints will generate negative pressure and form local blood stasis, so that the human body can dredge meridians, unblock qi and blood, reduce swelling and relieve pain, adjust the balance of yin and yang, dispel wind and detoxify, dispel cold and remove dampness, achieve the effect of treating diseases and play a role in health care.

Cupping and cupping therapy. It is called "cupping qi" and "straw therapy", and it was called "angle method" in ancient times. This is a kind of therapy which uses cups and jars as tools to generate negative pressure by heating the air discharged from them, so that it can be sucked on the skin and cause congestion. Ancient doctors used it to suck blood and expel pus when treating sores and abscesses, and later it was extended to medical diseases such as tuberculosis and rheumatism. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, cupping therapy has made new development, further expanding the scope of treatment and becoming a kind of therapy in acupuncture treatment.