Self-study course of scraping and cupping in traditional Chinese medicine

Self-study course of scraping and cupping in traditional Chinese medicine. Interested friends come and find out.

Tool/material corner, jade, cupping

Scraping method 0 1 Chinese medicine scraping is one of the traditional natural therapies. Based on the skin theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it is scraped on the relevant parts of the skin with instruments (horn, jade and cupping) to achieve the purpose of dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

02 technology:

Manipulation can be divided into three methods: clamping, pulling, squeezing, patting and kneading.

1, clamping method, also known as snatch method, folk call? A knot in my heart? . It means that the scraping medium is applied to the part of the patient to be scraped, and then the performer bends his five fingers, bends his middle finger and forefinger like hooks, dips in the scraping medium, clamps the skin, clamps the skin and muscles, and then slides outwards forcibly, and then releases it, one clip at a time, repeatedly? Baba? Sound.

2. Tearing manipulation is a method of treating diseases by pulling the patient's skin at a certain part or acupoint with thumb and forefinger, so that purple or dark red spots appear on the epidermis of the torn part, which is called tearing therapy.

3. For the diseases caused by prickly heat, the treatment method of squeezing the skin with the thumb and forefinger of two hands or one hand to continuously squeeze out a piece or a small row of purple prickly heat spots is called crowding therapy.

4. Clapping refers to slapping a part of the patient's body with a virtual palm or scraping board, usually an itchy and swollen part.

5. Moxibustion refers to point pressing with fingers on some parts of the patient's body or acupoints, and kneading in a round or spiral shape at the same time. It is a composite technique of point pressing and finger pressing.

03 Precautions:

When using scraping treatment, we should pay attention to avoid the wind and keep warm. If the indoor temperature is relatively low, try to reduce the exposed parts of the human body when scraping. It is worth noting that the weather is hot in summer, so don't blow in electric fans or places with flowing wind.

When scraping, the pores of the skin open and drain. In case of wind chill, common cold can directly act on people through the discharged pores, which not only affects the curative effect of scraping, but also causes new diseases due to feeling wind chill.

The time for scraping again should wait until the rash subsides after the last scraping (about 5-7 days).

Within 1-2 days after scraping, it is normal to have pain, itching, insect sensation, cold/hot air or rubella-like changes on the skin surface.

Bathing time after scraping After scraping, in order to avoid the invasion of pathogenic wind and cold, it is necessary to wait until the skin pores are closed and restored to their original state before taking a bath, usually about 3 hours. But in the process of taking a bath, when the water stains are not dry, you can scrape them. Because the pores are slightly open when taking a bath, scraping at this time takes less time and has a remarkable effect, but you should pay attention to keeping warm.

The schematic diagram of the scraping part is as follows. Find the right acupoints according to your own needs.

06 application:

Relieve insomnia. Insomniacs can wipe the soles of their feet before going to bed at night, which helps to promote sleep and relieve headaches. The method is to scrape the whole sole from the sole to the heel, and then scrape the Yongquan point in the center with a scraper at a single angle.

Dredge tendons. Now more and more people suffer from cervical spondylosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis and low back pain, because these muscles are often in a state of tension and contraction, which can relieve muscle tension, obviously relieve pain symptoms and contribute to the recovery of the disease.

Broaden the chest and regulate qi. Scrape the sternum slowly from top to bottom with a single angle of scraping comb. Is this position one eighth? Gas meeting? Zhongshan point, stimulating this point has the function of broadening the chest and regulating qi. In addition, people who love hiccups can often shave this part.

Cupping method 0 1 cupping:

Use 7 ~ 8 thick iron wire, one end of which is wrapped with asbestos rope or iron wire belt, and prepare the alcohol rack. Before use, dip the alcohol stick in 95% alcohol, light it with an alcohol lamp or candle, and flash one end of the alcohol stick to the bottom of the can with flame, and then take it out quickly. Immediately pull cupping at the right place. At this time, the cans have become negative pressure and can be sucked. The advantages of flash fire method are: when the alcohol stick is flashed, the flame has left the cupping, and there is no fire in the cupping, which can avoid scalding and is superior to the throwing fire method.

Please don't try cupping for patients with the following diseases, otherwise there may be problems: heart disease; Hemophilia; Systemic edema; Systemic dermatosis or local skin lesions (such as skin allergy or ulcer rupture); Extremely weak, emaciated, and the skin loses elasticity; Persistent high fever, convulsions and spasms.