Traditional Chinese Fire Cupping & Tuina Certificate Course

Traditional Chinese Fire Cupping & Tui na Massage Techniques

They have been used every century since then especially in Europe in the Middle Ages. Cups were still being used by Doctors a century ago in North America where they were part of their normal medical equipment and tools carried in their bags to visit patients. Cups use negative pressure created within the glass sphere by the introduction of a lighted taper.

The lighted taper is removed and the cup then swiftly placed on the site on the body. The cup adheres to the skin’s surface, drawing tissue up into the cup as well as attracting body fluids in large quantities to the site. The fluids are blood and lymph. Blood saturates the tissue underneath the cups. This is especially useful over ‘knots’ in sore, tired, aching muscles where the blood has been squeezed out of the muscle through increased tension.

This newly accumulated oxygenated blood bathes the muscle deep to its core, lubricating fibers and contributing to the healing of the tissue. Lymph removes the painful build-up of lactic acid in the muscle also. These physiological changes brought about by cupping decrease tension in the muscle and restore blood, thereby relaxing it.

Fire Cupping can be used on other areas of the body not just on muscles. For example, it can be used to promote digestion through the large colon. Cups placed strategically over the ascending, transverse, descending and sigmoid colon stimulate a process called peristalsis. Peristalsis requires a large quantity of blood to propel food matter through the digestive tract’s muscular walls.

Without blood peristalsis shuts down and food is left to accumulate instead of passing along the digestive tract. This causes blockages and is brought about by stress. Stress automatically shunts blood from the body’s organs in the core of the body to the arms and legs (fight or flight syndrome) during times of stress.

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