Combining bleeding and cupping methods in acupuncture can help in certain types of pain treatment. Learn more about these acupuncture methods from our medical expert in this free video.
Robert Linde, Acupuncture Physician and Registered Herbalist, has studied herbs since 1975 and practiced Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 6 years.
In this episode, we're actually going to use an interesting technique that combines bleeding acupuncture along with cuppings, very commonly used for heat syndromes as well as for pain. So this is a great choice for back pain. Once again, we're going to swab the area to make sure that it's sterile. In this case, we use a lancet which is very similar to a diabetic's use if they're checking their blood sugar. And now, we utilize the cup again in the same fashion and we'll place that over the location we're we just use the bleeding needle. And you maybe able to see from the camera we're starting to get a drop of blood that's starting to come forward, and if we leave on here for a few minutes, that amount of blood will start to increase. We'll give that a moment to do some of its work. Here we go. We're actually starting to get a little bit of a drip from there which is good. And actually, in order to be therapeutic, we oftentimes, we'll leave this on for five minutes and get about a teaspoon or so of blood out of it. But in this case, for the magic of tv, we'll go ahead and leave it there not quite so long, and what you'll see is when I release the pressure from this cup, the blood actually kinda sprays up on the cup, cups. So if you're screamish you might want to go ahead and not watch the video right now. Ahh, we didn't have too much from that. So, you can see that we have a little bit of blood there and we'll go ahead and just clean that up and a little bit of bruising that's left over from that. And that's bleeding, cupping and it's quite effective for pain.
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