Chinese Cupping Therapy used to treat Facial paralysis

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that facial paralysis is caused by stagnation of the meridians, malnutrition of the tendons and vessels due to cold and wind attacking the face when qi and blood are insufficient.
The Symptoms of Facial Paralysis

Location cupped and methods:
Acupoints selected: Yangbai, Yingtang, Sibai (ST2), Taiyang (EX- HN 5), Chengjiang, Jiache (ST6), Guanxia 

Method:
(1) Cupping: you should locate one of two acupoints and use small cupping cups to suck on the acupoints after flash of fire or putting fire into cup for 10 minutes.

(2) Flashed cupping: you should make the patient sit there. Then you should hold a stick used as a ethanol lighter in your left hand and a big cupping cup in the right hand and stand near the patient. Then you should put the stick into the cup, light the ethanol, withdraw it immediately, by which it would form negative pressure inside, and make the cups suck on the acupoints for 10 minutes.

(3) Cupping of venesection: after disinfecting Taiyang, Yangbai, Sibai, QianZheng, you should use percussopunctators to prick until a litter bleeding and then get the cups sucking for 5-10 minutes. With these done, you should remove the cups, wipe the blood out, and use Iodophors to disinfect the local sites one time every other day. This method should be used as the treatment for the beginning invasion of a disease and for the patients who suffer residual of facial paralysis.

(4) Acucupping: you should use acupuncture needles to prick through the main acupoints to another such as through Yangbai toYuyao, through Dicang to Jiache, through Taiyang to Jiache, through Yingxiang to Renzhong. As for the pricking patterns, you could adopt the vertical needling, oblique needling and horizontal needling. You should insert into the Dazhui (mainly indication: central facial palsy) fast and release some blood, and then cup on it for 10 minutes. If it is on the face, you should keep the needles on for 20 minutes and have the cup sucking for 10 minutes. All of these should be processed non-stop as usual until the patient feels better or get his recovery.

(5) Acucupping with warmed needles: you should get the acupuncture needles warmed and then prick the acupoints. After witherawing the needles, you should use small mouth cups to suck at lateral face one time a day or every other day and ten times as a treatment period.