Cupping is a popular traditional method of treating certain diseases. Just because everyone is too familiar with it, they don’t know as much about it as everyone imagines.
Try to ask the surrounding villagers if they know about cupping?
Almost everyone knows it.
Ask them if they know how cupping works?
I asked several questions here and there, and the villagers’ answers basically followed the words of the old Chinese medicine practitioners: reducing swelling and relieving pain, stimulating menstruation and activating collaterals, dispelling wind and cold, etc.
Ask again, what is the status of cupping in modern medical research? Most of the layperson's answers go back to the contradiction mentioned at the beginning: Why should Western medicine be used to study the things of traditional Chinese medicine?
Problem Modern Chinese medicine scholars have been doing modern research on Chinese medicine in order to carry forward the treasure house of traditional medicine.
Hence why laymen think that the magic of cupping lies in cupping, but if you tell an expert about it, you will definitely be laughed to death.
Cupping, such as acupuncture or fire moxibustion in the acupuncture discipline, what can make these treatment methods work wonders is the valuable basic theory of meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine.
By analogy, ancient cupping used fire. In order to avoid fire damage to the patient's body, modern doctors are familiar with the basic principles of cupping and invent a new model of air extraction tank.
Speaking of the basic principle of cupping on the human body: the fire burns away the air in the bottle, allowing the cup to be adsorbed on the human skin to form negative pressure, which produces benign stimulation on the acupuncture points of the human body.
Let’s focus on the key points above.
First, the jar is not important. It is just a negative pressure device. It can be of various types. In addition to our commonly used glass jars, bamboo jars, porcelain jars, etc. can be used.
Secondly, it is feasible for the air extraction tank mentioned to be invented to imitate the principle of the cupping tank. In the future, any method that can produce a similar effect will be feasible.
The third is to produce benign stimulation on the acupoints of the human body.
This seems to indicate why some teachers are opposed to Dr. Xie’s proposal.
If there is an obvious swelling in the affected area due to acute sprain, then pulling out the cupping cup on the affected area will create negative pressure to absorb the human skin, which will make the affected area more swollen and bruised. This method is obviously not advisable here.
It can be understood from this that most laymen answer that the principle of cupping is simply to reduce swelling and relieve pain, which is a confusing statement that cannot be understood. Because if you ask them the above question again, they won’t be able to answer the question. Do the people who oppose Dr. Xie really understand what cupping is? Obviously, my brain is confused about Chinese medicine.
Dr. Xie Wanying only needs to ask these people: Where do you think cupping should be performed on the patient?
Everyone saw that her frank and frank attitude was so superior, they had to sigh: King Xie Juan is never afraid of being provoked and slapped in the face. In the end, the person who is slapped in the face often changes back to someone else?
As expected, Dr. Xiao Yang, who was the first to object, was tongue-tied and stammered. He followed Dr. Xie's question and said, "No, isn't it on the patient's back?"
It shows that Xiao Yang realized where he had gone wrong.
The magic of TCM meridian science is that it can treat the affected area remotely, and the root of it is the holistic medical view of the human body in TCM.
For example, to treat low back pain, acupuncture on a person's hands can cure low back pain, and acupuncture on a person's feet can also cure low back pain.
“Yes, that’s true.” Dr. Tong and Professor Pei supported Dr. Xie’s well-founded academic defense on the spot.
General practitioners are capable of learning everything, and this moment highlights their advantages.
As for King Xie Juan, he is a different kind of person.
Dr. Xie Wanying does not care whether she will be slapped in the face, so she does not resent the emergence of opposition.
Think about it, Dr. Xiao Yang’s objections were just right, making the TCM treatment plan more thorough and clearing up the patients’ concerns.
The patient, Dr. Cao Zhao, is also a doctor after all, and he cannot just use his own body as a guinea pig.
In the medical circle, it is an eternal truth that the more we debate, the clearer it becomes.
