As Chinese medicine is concerned with the identification of the constitution, observing the color and smell of the skin after cupping can help you to understand the condition of the body at this time as well as your own constitution. How to identify skin color after cupping, take a look below.

　　Since ancient times, cupping has been a therapeutic method for the purpose of preventing and treating diseases and strengthening the body, and it is also an important therapy in acupuncture and moxibustion treatment. Cupping therapy is to can as a tool, the use of fire, pumping and other methods to generate negative pressure, so that it is adsorbed on the surface of the body specific cupping parts, resulting in the stimulation of meridian points, to achieve the purpose of health care. Fire cupping is commonly used in the prevention and treatment of colds, neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain, obesity, headache, heat stroke, acne, gastric pain and chronic fatigue syndrome.

　　Cupping therapy has the efficacy of sweating and relieving symptoms, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and warming menstruation and dispersing cold. In addition to solving summer dampness, cupping in summer is also helpful to solve the air-conditioned environment caused by the blockage of sweat holes, summer heat can not be dispersed, thus causing a variety of summer heat and cold dampness of the disease. Cupping produces vacuum negative pressure on the meridian points, the pores can be sucked open and make the skin congested, the body's pathological products from the skin pores sucked out of the body, so that the meridians and blood can be unblocked, the function of the internal organs can be adjusted to achieve the elimination of dampness, relief of summer heat, and the prevention and treatment of cold and disease prevention and treatment purposes.

　　Skin color identification after cupping

　　1、After starting cupping, there is no trace of cupping, or there is a trace of cupping but it disappears immediately, and the skin returns to normal, suggesting that the body is basically normal or the disease is light.

　　2, can mark purple and black and dark: generally indicates that the blood supply is insufficient, poor menstrual blood stagnation phenomenon.

　　3, cans issued purple and accompanied by plaques: generally indicated that the cold congealed blood stasis.

　　4, the can mark was scattered purple spots, and the depth of the same, said the stagnation of blood stagnation.

　　5, can mark bright red and colorful: generally indicates a deficiency of yin, qi and blood deficiency or yin deficiency fire exuberance.

　　6, can mark red and dark: indicates high blood fat, and heat evil.

　　7, can mark gray, touch and not warm, mostly for cold or dampness.

　　8, the jar mark is green, it indicates that the cold.

　　9, walking cans appear after a large area of black purple marks, suggesting the feeling of wind-cold.

　　10, the surface of the jar marks have skin lines or slightly itchy: indicating wind or dampness.

　　11、Water vapor on the inner wall of the canister: indicates that there is moisture in the area.

　　12, blisters appear in the jar seal, indicating heavy dampness in the body, if there is blood and water inside the blisters, it is the reaction of damp-heat toxicity.

　　After cupping, the purple spots on the skin can usually disappear in two weeks.