Chinese Cupping therapy helps relieve Cervical syndrome

It belongs to the category of arthromyodynia. The main causes of it are the affection by exopathogenic or cold-wind lead to obstructed meridian of neck, qi and blood stagnation. The main treatment is to dredge the meridians, promote qi to activate blood, remove blood stasis to relax the muscular spasm and improve the regional organization nutrition metabolism so as to remove cervical vertebra disease.

Location cupped and methods:
Acupoints selected: Jiajixue, Yatongxue, Dazhui, Jianjing, Tianzong, Quchi (LI 11), Shousanli (LI 10), Waiguan

1. Stationary cupping: when the patient adopts the sitting positon or supine position, you should cup on acupoints of Jiajixue, Dazhui and the pressure pain point for neck pain; if the patient has shouder pain, you add jianjing, tianzongxue cupped; if the patient has a pain in upper limbs and numbness, you should add quchi, shousanli and waiguanxue cupped. Caution that you keep the cups for 10-15 minutes once a day and take ten times as a treatment period.

2. Acucupping: you should use the acupuncture needles to prick the above acupoints according to the kinds of cervical spondylosis and the pain part and then select temperate cups to cup on the stiffness and numbness for 10-15 minutes.

3. Moving cupping: when the patient gets sitting position or supine position, you should over-lay some massage cream or ointment on the neck and select sizable cups to suck Jiajixue of the neck. Then you should move the cup back and forth along both sides of backbone of collar until the skin turns red.

4. Cupping of venesection: you should use club-like needles to knock dazhuixue or the spots pressed pain until a little bleeding, and then you should adopt cupping at once to get rid of the scouring blood. At last, you should wipe the blood out and get the sites disinfected with a iodid sponge.

5. Medicinal cupping: you should wrap Fangfeng, Chinese quince, Qinjiao, Peach Seed, safflower, fructus, Kudzuvine Root, each for 20-g, together with gauze.Then you should put the wrapping into the pot to boil for half an hour and filter out the physic liquor. Next, you should put bamboo jar into the physic liquor to boil 10 minutes and then pinch up. After get rid of all the linqor, you should cover the mouth of the jar and immediately deduct the cup to dazhui, jiajixue of the neck and keep the cup sucking for 15-20minutes. Caution that you do it once a day and take ten times as a treatment period.