Cupping involves heating up small glass-cups and then putting them onto the skin, and pulling them away from the body to help loosen and relax-muscles by promoting blood-flow.
Many massage therapists and other alternative health practitioners are including it as part of their practice. It makes sense as cupping is kind of the inverse of massage. Instead of apply pressure to muscles, the suction uses pressure to pull the skin, tissue and muscles upward.
These 6-reasons might just convince that you should try cupping too.
1.Pain relief
Pain relief is one of the main reasons people use cupping. Cupping targets soft tissue with pressure applied to pain points and areas of swelling. This helps to increase blood-flow and give the tissues important nutrients and oxygen. It’s believed to help release tissues deep within the body, relax tense muscles and ease stiffness that’s often associated with neck and back-pain, migraines and rheumatism.
2.Relieve cold, cough and allergy symptoms
Cupping can help to stimulate the lungs to help clear out phlegm. Excess phlegm in the lungs triggers coughing to help bring it out of the body. The practice of cupping can help speed the process to relieve one of nasty cold, cough and allergy symptoms. It also helps boost immune-function by moving blood and lymphatic-fluid throughout the body.
3.Promotes relaxation
In today’s chaotic world, all of us can use a little time for relaxation. If we don’t take time to relax, the constant stress can lead to a host of health conditions, including mental issues like anxiety and depression. Similar to receiving a deep-tissue massage which offers wonderful, relaxing relief, cupping is soothing as it helps to lift the pressure from tense-muscles.
4.Detoxifying
Poor-circulation can lead to buildup of toxins inside of the body’s tissues. This buildup can be the root cause of many different health-conditions. Cupping helps to improve stagnation, while the blood rushing to the area that’s being treated carries away toxins. Along with those-toxins, it helps to clear dead-cells and other debris. All of these elements are then expelled naturally. That’s why drinking lots of water after a cupping session is a good-idea for flushing away those impurities and promoting better-health.
5.Improve skin conditions
Cupping has been used to help with a host of skin-conditions, including eliminating-acne and eczema, reducing skin-inflammation, lessening herpes breakouts and even diminishing cellulite. It’s used to treat acne by cupping the affected area and even nicking the skin in order to remove the breakout.
As part of a cellulite treatment, cupping is done after oil is applied to the skin. The cups are then suctioned and moved around to bring heat to the area, along with the skin-healing ingredients of the particular oil that’s used.
6.Anti-Aging
Cupping has been found to offer anti-aging effects like fighting wrinkles. It brings more-nutrients to the skin, which helps give it a glowing, younger appearance. In addition, products that are used after the treatment, such as lotions, essential-oils and such, are absorbed better, and therefore, more-effective.
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