The sensation of pain is the alarm signal of your body. You should never take it lightly or leave it lying around.

Often, doctors prescribe radios, antibiotics, painkillers of all kinds, while the pain is located much deeper.

After trying modern medicine, why not turn to alternative medicine that can soothe your ailments?

The benefits

Thanks to the suction cups, we can work on both the energetic and mechanical aspects.

For the energy aspect, we are interested in meridians and acupuncture points, which are usually located at the back. The goal is to regulate the energy of certain organs.

You can also work on the mechanical side of the body to relieve pain (torticollis, back problems). Suckers are also effective on rheumatism, or to overcome sciatica. Again to work on the mechanical aspect, we will be on points located at the level of the back, and more rarely at the level of the belly. The practitioner can focus on points related to the spleen, liver or stomach, in case of chronic disorders.

For example, people who are prone to bloating, who have digestive weakness, can use cupping to revitalize weaker organs, strengthen them and thus optimize digestion.

The suction cups also allow you to relax, working on muscle tension, and blowing up blockages both in the deep muscles, as energies, which stagnate in certain parts of the body. We revive in a way "the machine", toning these energies.

The virtues of cupping therapy are many, since it would be effective also in case of sleep disorders and it would work against colds. Moreover, we can see after a session, that the marks are darker at the points related to respiratory infections.

Side slimming too, the benefits exist: the patient can work on the appearance of cellulite but also on points related to weight gain. Lymphatic drainage can also be done. After having "broken" the cellulite, finish with a hand-rolled palpé completes the session. On this model, the House of Tui Na offers Massage Yi Shou.

Contraindications

There is no particular contraindication, except for pregnant women. Also, people who tend to varicose veins should avoid doing it on the legs, and those who take blood thinners should choose another technique (because the bruises may be impressive!).

The studies :

See the paper Zhao et al, Effect of time and pressure factors on the cupping mark color, published in The Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, May 2009.

Cupping: From a biomechanical perspective of LMThama et al, published in the journal Biomechanics, in June 2005 Ideas