Cupping is a traditional Chinese therapy used to treat illnesses and imbalances for over 2,500 years. Fire Cupping is actually quick… painless…and extraordinarily effective for a range of health conditions, including severe muscle stiffness and arthritis.
The practitioner creates suction in a cup, applies the cup to the patient’s body, and in response to the suction, blood rushes to the area and the skin at the contact site is “sucked up” into the cup.
One way to think of cupping is to compare it to a massage, but in reverse: the cups pull your muscles up, rather than pushing them down.
Ultimately, fire cupping brings the same relief from body aches and pains that a deep massage would offer. However, cupping takes less than half the time—just 5 to 15 minutes!
Benefits of Cupping Therapy
- Relief from Even the Most Extreme Pain and Stiffness
- Improves circulation
- Boosts your immune system
- Stimulates energy flow and better overall health
By bringing fresh blood to the surface of your skin, cupping can:
- Open the chest and lungs
- Alleviate menstrual cramps
- Diminish digestive problems
- Clear up coughs, wheezing and other respiratory problems
- Halt migraines
- Manage acute and chronic pain
Fire cupping promotes wellness in 4 major ways:
- Warms the body and allows Qi (vital energy or life force) and blood to flow freely
- Clears dampness from the body
- Reduces pain and swelling
- Rids body of any generally toxic elements
Fire Cupping Gets Your Blood Moving Toward Optimal Health
Fire cupping’s most potent impact by far is its tried-and-true ability to optimize circulation.
Increased blood flow to all areas of your body provides a number of important health improvements, from cell growth and organ function to the appearance of your skin. Red blood circulates oxygen throughout your body, and the more efficiently that happens, the better you’ll look and feel.
Is cupping safe? Does it hurt?
While cupping is considered relatively safe (especially air cupping, which does not include the risk of fire and heat), it can cause some swelling and bruising on the skin. As the skin under a cup is drawn up, the blood vessels at the surface of the skin expand.
A word on Cupping marks
The most common misunderstanding regarding one of the most powerful and beneficial after effects of Cupping, is the marks that sometimes result.
The vacuum formed by Cupping draws up the old non-circulating stagnant blood and sticky fluids from the area, bringing them up to the surface and away from the injury so that healthy free circulation can be restored to the affected area, thus creating space for oxygen, living cells and nutrients for faster recovery.
Where there is dead, static blood, lymph, cellular debris, pathogenic factors, and toxins present in the body, Cupping can leave marks which indicates that the stagnation or disease has been moved from the deeper tissue layers to the surface.
So while fire cupping is a great one-time treatment for many common conditions-it's also a wonderful way to maintain your overall health. Along with a proper diet and exercise, cupping offers a relaxing means of keeping yourself healthy. It can be performed on a monthly basis, or as a compliment to other detoxification.
