Cupping therapy for eczema

Cupping therapy for eczema

I have a few subscribers to my regular eczema newsletter who write about cupping therapy. Their Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners advised them to try cupping therapy for eczema as part of their holistic treatment. Although it's still too early to report whether the therapy helped them, I found out more about this virtually unknown (at least to most of us) form of treatment.

Cupping therapy is an ancient form of Chinese healing, just like acupuncture. It is the art of using plastic or glass cups with suction cups on the end that are placed on your skin to create vacuum. The vacuum causes local congestion, sucks up your skin and opens your body's meridians. According to TCM, meridians are the channels from which energy enters and flows. Diseases that occur with the meridian channels are blocked. Opening the channels can help speed recovery and bring about healing.

Cupping therapy appears to have many benefits for the skin. It activates your skin tissue and causes it to release toxins. This detoxification therapy can also improve the condition of your varicose veins as it eliminates cases of blood clotting in the arteries, capillaries and veins. Most importantly, cupping therapy is believed to stimulate your lymphatic system – the very system that produces antibodies to fight off disease.

With this in mind, cupping therapy proves to be another alternative method for treating eczema as well as other skin problems such as boils. Much of this is due to the therapy's ability to rid the skin of pathogens - the same ones that trigger eczema flare-ups. Cupping therapy also improves blood circulation and cleansing. Since some theories suggest that certain types of eczema are caused by poor circulation, cupping therapy may just be the answer to curing eczema.

During the therapy process, the plastic or glass cups are placed on specific areas of your body. Specifically, the points for eczema are located near your navel, just below the kneecap, at the top of the spinal cord, and just above the ankle. When the plastic or glass cups used in therapy are applied to these areas, you will feel calm and relaxed. In fact, this is what you would expect from cupping therapy. You may fall asleep during the session and wake up feeling refreshed and energized.

Cupping therapy as an alternative eczema treatment is definitely worth a try. as there is no conventional cure for eczema. In fact, there are several things doctors can do for you right now to minimize the discomfort your eczema condition brings. Other than that, there is no guarantee that complete healing would take place. You will notice that you keep getting eczema breakouts. Therefore, it seems that combining the good effects of alternative remedies with modern science is the best way if you want to cure yourself of eczema.

Inspired by Evelyn Lim