Cupping provides
- Negative Pressure
- Vasodilation
- Improved fluid exchange
What is Vasodilation?
• Vasodilation is the widening of blood vessels.
• Vasodilation results from relaxation of smooth muscle cells
within the vessel walls.
• Larger & smaller veins, large arteries
Benefits of Cupping
- Pulls stagnation out of tissues, bringing it to the skin level.
- Negative pressure rather than compression makes myofascial release and lymphatic drainage easier to accomplish.
- Facilitates rigid soft tissue by pulling it away from underlying structures.
- Loosening areas of adhesions and restriction.
- Activates muscle spindles reflexes that relax contracted tissue.
- Activates secretion of synovial fluids.
- Creates localised expansion of tissue, producing vasodilatation reaction.
- Draws blood to areas of ischemia.
- Increases skin temperature.
- Promotes metabolism within the skin tissue, sweat and sebaceous glands.
- Flushes capillary beds.
- Draws stagnant blood, toxins and lymph and resupplies vital nutrients.
- Cupping can impact GI disorders & digestive systems in their entirety.
- Low pressure upon the belly stimulates the inside of the organs.
- Peristaltic movement and secretion of digestive fluids.
- Improves digestion and nutrient absorption.
- Asthma and pneumonia respond to Cupping.
- Easies laboured breathing.
- Scar tissue softens, restructuring of fascia can occur.
- Stimulates nervous system reflex to the cerebral cortex.
- Increase rate of recovery from pain.
- Sedating effect on the body
