Acupuncturists may sometimes use a fixed cupping method to help move the chi and blood. Learn more about fixed cupping and acupuncture 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 segment we're going to demonstrate Fixed Cupping in order to help treat back pain. So one of the things we're going to do, we're going to play with a little bit of fire so don't try this at home. It's very easy if you don't know what you're doing to have an accident. So this fire actually helps us to create a vacuum and these special cups designed for doing this technique. We can put a series of cups on his back in order to stimulate both the energetic organs as well as to help move the chian blood that causes some of his pain. So we can leave these on for anywhere from a few moments to actually up to fifteen minutes. It does occasionally leave a somewhat discoloration or even a bruise, you know a nice circular motion. What we like to do is talk about it as squid love bites. And so you may be able to see, I'll go ahead and remove some of these, the redness that's left on his back. These are the squid love bites, and so normally we can actually make these even darker and they may last from about three to five days if we do a more severe, strong fixed cupping for his pain.
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