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What Is Cupping?
Cupping is an ancient Chinese modality, where glass cups are applied to the skin through vacuum to create localized stimulation of circulation. The partial vacuum within the cup is created by heat or suction. The instrument is immediately placed on the skin in the desired location and creates a suctioning effect on the skin. This has the effect of drawing up the underlying tissues. When the cup is left in place like this, the stimulated circulation helps the healing process.
Cupping therapy has been further developed to unblock the meridian systems of the body. There are some five meridians on the back of the body that, when unblocked can deliver invigorating energy across the entire span of the body. Research has shown that cupping is most effective in achieving this result.
Further research has shown that cupping has deep tissue effects, often affecting as deep as up to four inches into the body, stimulating deep tissue to release stagnant toxins and metabolic byproducts into the peripheral lymphatic circulation for disposal, help activate and clear venous system, and even clear intestinal blockages. For this reason, cupping is considered as one of the best deep tissue massages.
Post Treatment
- After cupping, do not immediately take showers due to the pores on the skin that are still opening. You can consider taking a shower after 8 hours. The second and third day you will feel a little bit sore and it is totally normal.
- Drink a lot of warm water to help leach toxin from the body.
- Give appropriate level of protection to the cupping place; do not let the cupping place get cold.
- The cupping marks will disappear in approximately 2 to 3 weeks.
- If you have tense muscles there will be more bruising around the cupping area and it will be a larger rather than a circular shape and lots discoloration (more purple and like a really bad bruise).
- Rarely you would see blisters forming, but if you do see that forming it is due to having too much “coldness” (as explained in Chinese medicine) within the body. If you have those blisters please come visit us and we will help you take care of them. However, please do not use anything rough to scratch the area until it is fully healed.
- If you are don’t have a healthy digestion or blood circulation it will take a little longer for the cupping marks to disappear, but it should slowly disappear in about a month.
COLOR OF THE CUPPING MARKS AND ITS MEANING
- White: Due to poor blood circulation it will require more than one treatment in order for full effect.
- Black: You have too much “coldness” within you according to Chinese medicine. Occurs when you eat too much beef or seafood. Due to this your marks will be darker.
- Red: You have too much “heat” within you according to Chinese medicine. When this occurs you will have redder looking cupping marks.
- With dots/specks/blisters: rarer case, but totally normal goes back to the “coldness” you have inside you.