Treatment principles of cupping therapy [1]

Posted by : admin on Sep 03, 2008 - 01:40 PM

Cupping therapy has accumulated rich clinic treatment experiences in its development. We will apply different cupping methods in the clinic according to different symptoms, syndromes and locations. Cupping can be divided into flash cupping and fixed retaining cupping according to retaining time of cupping; single cup or multiple cups according to amount of cupping; fixed cupping or moving cupping according to movement of cup; needling cupping, herbal cupping, bleeding cupping, water cupping, scraping cupping, massage cupping, moxibustion cupping, physical therapy cupping according to accompanied therapies. In the clinic, diagnosis and differentiation become quite important for making treatment principles.