How long does the color fade after cupping? How can skin color disappear quickly after cupping?
We all know that cupping is a common traditional Chinese medicine method for health care. It can promote blood circulation, accelerate metabolism, remove dampness and toxins, and is popular among people. So how long does the color last after cupping?
Generally, the lighter color will disappear within 3-7 days after cupping;The darker color, with severe cold and blood stasis, may take up to a month to disappear. So how can the color disappear quickly after cupping? Let's take a look at it in detail!
How long does it take for cupping to eliminate the color?
After cupping, most people will leave some purple and black marks. Due to different constitutions, the depth of the color is different, and the time it takes for the marks to disappear is also different.
The lighter color will disappear within 3-7 days;The darker color, with severe cold and blood stasis, may take up to a month to disappear.If after cupping, the dark purple marks on the skin have not disappeared after a month, you need to go to the hospital to check whether the platelet count is normal.
How to quickly eliminate the color after cupping?
Note!Within 12 hours after cupping, to avoid causing trauma to the cupping site, it is important to rest and avoid local heating or massage.
Heating
If there is insufficient blood and qi, and dampness in the body, and the menstrual cycle is not smooth, it is easy to cause blood stagnation. Applying a warm towel can promote blood circulation, accelerate the absorption of blood stasis, and promote the disappearance of black marks.
Moderate massage
Like heating and massage, it can also dispel blood stasis, but it is important to massage gently, and it is best to apply rose essential oil before massage, which will have better blood-activating effect.
Tips:
It is easy to cause burns when cupping, mainly because too much alcohol is used and dripped onto the skin in the cup, causing a blood blister, so when cupping, it is important to control the amount of alcohol.
Meaning of the color of the marks after cupping
1. Purple and dark marks: Generally indicate blood stasis, such as irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, or insufficient blood supply to the heart. Of course, if the affected area is severely cold, it will also appear purple and dark marks. If the marks do not disappear for several days, it often indicates a long-term illness, requiring a longer period of treatment. If large-area purple and black marks appear when cupping, it indicates that the area affected by wind-cold is very large, and it needs to be treated to eliminate wind and evil.
2. Purple marks with plaques: Generally indicates cold and blood stasis.
3. Purple spots: The depth is uneven, generally indicating qi stagnation and blood stasis.
4. Pale purple with plaques: Generally mainly due to deficiency, with blood stasis, such as appearing on the kidney acupoint, indicating kidney deficiency, if appearing on the spleen acupoint, it indicates qi deficiency and blood stasis. This often accompanies pain.
5. Fresh red and vibrant marks: Generally indicates yin deficiency and both yin and yang deficiency. Yin deficiency and fire can also appear.
6. Fresh red spots: Usually appear after large-scale cupping, not raised above the skin. If concentrated on a certain acupoint and its surroundings, it indicates that the organ or body part in that acupoint has an evil. Clinically, some people use cupping to find such red spots and treat diseases by puncturing.
7. If there are no cupping marks or they disappear immediately after opening the cup, it indicates that the condition is still mild. Of course, if the time of acupuncture is not right, cupping may not leave any marks. You should also cupping several times to confirm whether there is a disease.
8. Gray and white marks: It is mainly due to deficiency and dampness.
9. Surface of the marks has veins and is slightly itchy: indicating wind and dampness.
10. There is water in the cup: indicates that the affected area has dampness.
11. Water blisters appear in the cup: indicates that the body has a lot of dampness, if the water blister contains blood, it indicates heat dampness.
12. If there are water blisters and edema in the cupping area, it indicates that the disease is caused by dampness.
13. If there are deep red, purple, or dark red, or slight pain and fever, it indicates heat dampness;If there is no fever, it indicates blood stasis.
14. If the skin color remains unchanged and is not warm, it indicates yin deficiency.
In addition, cupping should also pay attention to the following:
1. After cupping or acupuncture, if there are no marks (or faint), or they disappear immediately after opening the cup, it indicates that the body is basically normal or the condition is mild.
2. If cupping or acupuncture causes water blisters, it indicates that there is a lot of dampness, and if there are many small water blisters in the affected area, it will have a good therapeutic effect, and it needs to be cupped repeatedly.
3. If there are wind clouds (such as acute rash) when cupping, it indicates wind-heat.
4. As the condition improves, the cupping marks will also gradually decrease and become less obvious, which indicates that the disease is improving.
