CUPPING
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Traditional Chinese medicine often brings to mind acupuncture, and the use of herbs as natural healing remedies. But cupping is just beneficial and important in traditional Chinese medicine healing modalities.
Cupping evolved from practices that affirmed illness could be “sucked” out of the body, both in Eastern and Western cultures. But recent studies have shown evidence that cupping is super effective in doing just that - sucking illness out of the body!
WHAT IS CUPPING?
Cupping is a treatment where small glass cups are heated up or just straight away applied “dry” to the skin (typically on the back) which causes a suction sensation.
The suction in the cups causes the skin and superficial muscle layer to be lightly drawn into the cup, much like an inverse massage, but instead of applying pressure to the muscle, cupping gently pulls the muscles upward.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF CUPPING?
Cupping is therapeutic especially for people experiencing back and neck pain because it relieves muscle tension and reduces the pain in the area in which the cups are applied.
But cupping also helps your body create new connective tissue and blood vessels inside the muscle tissues - great for people who have sustained physical injuries. Cupping therapy also improves blood flow by increasing the blood circulation in the area where the cups are applied. Thus, enhancing cellular repair.
Aside from pain relief and physical injury recovery, cupping also improves your body function by rejuvenating the blood flow in your blood vessels, restoring it to its normal, optimal level.
BOOK A CUPPING Therapy!
Try this proven hundred-year old therapy from China for pain relief, physical injury recovery, body function improvement or just enjoy the massaging sensation it feels on your muscles. And don't worry, our cupping therapy specialist doesn't use fire like the traditional cupping used to - we do dry cupping.
So pick a date and time in the calendar below or call us at 310-477-3335 for questions or appointments.
CUPPING FOR pain RELIEF
Cupping will give you relief from all of the symptoms listed below.
MIGRAINES
When migraines or headaches are caused by tight muscles in the upper back and neck, cupping helps to increase circulation, decreasing tension and pain.
VARICOSE VEINS
This happens when the veins are stretched for too long because of stagnated blood caused by the valves of the vein becoming weak or damaged. This poor condition of the vein causes the blood to darken (due to lack of oxygen), flow backwards, and pool in one place making the stretched vein pop up on the skin.
Cupping moves the old blood cells out, bringing new oxygenated (lighter colored) blood in. Thus, reducing the appearance of varicose and spider veins.
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
Cupping regulates down your central nervous system, reducing stress. And lowered stress has been shown to lower down blood pressure.
Muscle TENSION
Proper blood flow is essential to bring nutrients and oxygen to muscles. But as muscles tense up, the amount of blood circulating through them depletes.
Cupping removes deoxygenated blood, dead cells, toxins, and impurities from your blood veins. And this reduction of debris and inflammation frin soothes stiff muscles.
Muscle Spasms
Spasms are caused by injury, dehydration, and strenuous exercise. Speed up your recovery from exercise with cupping, by pulling lactic acid build-up out of the muscles so your body can then dispose of it.
By bringing nutrient filled blood to the muscles, cupping therapy moistens the dehydrated muscles and helps the teared down fibers heal faster.
BRONCHIAL CONGESTION
Cupping breaks up and mobilizes phlegm so it is easier for the body to expel. It also delivers more blood and lymph to your lungs and muscles that asist respiration.
ANXIETY
Anxiety attacks causes a person to breath shallowly, decreasing the amount of oxygen in circulation and causing muscles to tighten up. Cupping relaxes the nervous system and encourages blood flow, calming down the nerves and relieving anxiety.