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COVID-19 Pandemic and Traditional Chinese Medicines
Published in Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, Muhammad Riaz, Sagheer Ahmed, Marius Alexandru Moga, The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2023
Roheena Abdullah, Ayesha Toor, Hina Qaiser, Afshan Kaleem, Mehwish Iqtedar, Tehreema Iftikhar, Muhammad Riaz, Dou Deqiang
Cupping is the technique that uses small glass cups to produce suction on the skin. These cups are strategically placed on specific points on fleshy parts of the body like stomach and back to restore the balance of qi in body. In this technique, cotton soaked in inflammable substance like alcohol is burned inside the small cups removing all the oxygen present is the cups. Then these heated cups are placed on the surface of the body. As the air in the cups cools down, it creates a vacuum in the cups which helps them to stick to the skin. When these cups are removed from the body, they produce suction action which bruises the skin of the body. The bruising experience is rather relaxing instead of being painful and stimulates blood flow and Qi. Respiratory problems are usually treated by Ba Guan [12,14].
Low Back Pain
Published in Benjamin Apichai, Chinese Medicine for Lower Body Pain, 2021
Cupping treatment: 腎俞 Shenshu with a needle in the cup.委中 Weizhong with bleeding technique from seven-star needle treatment.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Treatment Techniques for COVID-19
Published in Wenguang Xia, Xiaolin Huang, Rehabilitation from COVID-19, 2021
Cupping can cause heat stimulation to the skin in certain areas, which will increase the skin temperature, dilate blood vessels, and increase blood flow. This promotes blood circulation, enhances metabolism, improves tissue nutrition, and ultimately improves the immune system.
Wet cupping for hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Published in Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 2019
Shuting Lu, Shizheng Du, Anne Fish, Cong Tang, Qingqing Lou, Xuefang Zhang
Cupping is a gentle therapy that uses negative pressure, from a vacuum created by slightly heated cups against the skin, to achieve its results. The negative pressure releases tight tissue that helps loosen muscle and tissue adhesions. It brings fresh blood and nutrients to the muscles and skin. It is described as a very powerful and relaxing therapy that is comfortable (16); this therapy with no side effects is increasingly welcomed by hypertensive patients for reducing BP and alleviating hypertension-related symptoms (17–23). This idea of symptoms associated with hypertension is generally accepted in some regions of the world. For example, patients with a diagnosis of hypertension in China, other Asian countries and Arabic nations are troubled by symptoms they associate with hypertension such as dizziness, headache, irritability, physical weakness in the knees and soreness of the waist. This differs from the thinking in the West where hypertension-related symptoms are not emphasized and are believed not to be present; hypertension in the West is described as The Silent Killer.
The comparison of fennel infusion plus dry cupping versus metformin in management of oligomenorrhoea in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: a randomised clinical trial
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2019
Roshanak Mokaberinejad, Zahra Rampisheh, Jale Aliasl, Elham Akhtari
The practice of dry cupping during the monthly period that ends with ovulation is also recommended (Dharmanada 2014). Dry cupping is a thousand-year-old practice in many communities around the world. There is evidence that dry cupping is associated with prostaglandin inhibition and in improving blood supply to the cupped area, as it can result in relieving pain and improving the functions of uterus and ovaries (Sultana et al. 2010; Bamfarahnak et al. 2014). In this method, a dry cup is used under belly button and above the pubis (without any skin trauma or bleeding). This procedure is performed once or twice a day for 7–10 days in secondary amenorrhoea and oligomenorrhoea (Bamfarahnak et al. 2014; Chen et al. 2015). So this procedure, a dry cupping practice that has been described in Persian and Chinese medicine, and its therapeutic effects have been attributed in making changes in blood vessels, adjusting skin blood flow, making changes in biomedical properties of the skin and in quickly reducing inflammation (Chen et al. 2015).
Pressure-driven accumulation of Mn-doped mesoporous silica nanoparticles containing 5-aza-2-deoxycytidine and docetaxel at tumours with a dry cupping device
Published in Journal of Drug Targeting, 2021
Yongwei Hao, Cuixia Zheng, Qingxia Song, Hongli Chen, Wenbin Nan, Lei Wang, Zhenzhong Zhang, Yun Zhang
Suction techniques are particularly promising in clinic, such as in fistula prevention [19]. However, the drainage concept for directing drug delivery has so far been ignored. Cupping treatment is a traditional Chinese technique used for thousand years, and the negative-pressure drainage effect is known to all. Given the fact that the drainage technology poses the potential for improving drug delivery, we first characterised this advantage in the tumour-bearing mice after intravenous injection of free fluorescence agent. As shown in Figure 3(A), the cupping kit set is comprised of one getter device and one cup, and the cup has different size. During the cupping process, in order to obtain the vacuum conveniently, the castable plasticine blocked all the side openings of the cup and acted as an additional seal. As shown in Figure 3(B), after suction, the tumour site was clearly bulged. This assay primarily suggested the versatility and power of the dry cupping as a drainage device, due to their intrinsic negative-pressure effect. In order to investigate the improved drug delivery to tumour site, the tumour bearing mouse with one tumour in the right flank while the other in the left flank was injected with free IR780 agent. As shown in Figure 3(C), only the tumour in the right flank was exposed to the drug cupping. After cupping, a telltale sign of cupping treatment appeared compared to the control site. Then, the NIR imaging was used to monitor the IR780 distribution. As shown in Figure 3(D,E), the fluorescence intensity of the tumour exposed to the dry cupping was obviously higher than that of the control one. Moreover, fluorescent signal persisted in tumour tissue for >3 d, with obvious residual signal present even after 72 h.