Can cupping be used during menstruation?

Cupping is a very good health-preserving method in daily life. It can help people strengthen their bodies effectively and also play a role in detoxification. However, cupping is not suitable for women during menstruation, because it may cause the shedding of the endometrium, which in turn leads to vasodilation, and even hemorrhage in severe cases. Therefore, women need to pay special attention to cupping during menstruation.

1. Can cupping be used during menstruation?

Women should not use cupping during menstruation. Cupping has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which can easily lead to endocrine disorders. Because menstruation is bleeding caused by the shedding of the endometrial mucosa, cupping may cause abnormal shedding of the endometrium, resulting in prolonged menstruation, dysmenorrhea, menstrual bleeding and blood clots, and in severe cases, it may cause uterine diseases. Cupping mainly creates negative pressure in the uterus by exhausting air, which stretches the nerves, muscles, blood vessels, and subcutaneous glands, causing a neuroendocrine reaction, regulating vasoconstriction and vascular permeability, thereby improving local blood circulation.

2. Cupping

Cupping is a therapy that uses a cup as a tool and utilizes methods such as burning fire and pumping air to create negative pressure, causing the cup to adsorb onto the body surface, causing local blood stasis, in order to achieve the effects of dredging meridians, promoting qi and blood circulation, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and dispelling wind and cold. Cupping therapy has a long history in China. As early as in the silk book "Fifty-two Prescriptions for Diseases" written in the Western Han Dynasty, there were records about "horn method", which is similar to the fire cupping therapy in later generations. Cupping therapy was also popular in ancient Greece and Rome.