Do you want to try Acupuncture ... but you are scared of the needles?
Perhaps Traditional Chinese Fire Cupping Therapy is for you!
Although this therapy is not common-place or very familiar in North America, fire cupping has been in use in traditional Chinese medicine for some 2300 years in China, and is also found throughout European folk medicine. It is called 'Fire Cupping Therapy" because the procedure uses both fire and cups (round glass globes). This treatment is based on introducing a flame to the cup to create a vacuum in the glass globe. The negative pressure within the vacuum makes the glass cups adhere to the skin, drawing up a bit of skin and superficial muscle tissue, as well as attracting blood and lymph fluids to the site in large quantities. Fresh oxygenated blood saturates the tissue (organs and muscle) beneath the cups.
The way it works is that the suction stimulates the acupressure points and meridians of your body similar to the way acupuncture needles work for the points and meridians, but with no risk of infection by needles, or dealing with the fear of needles. The cups are placed on the back over pre-selected acupressure points causing a reddening of the skin, and they can be moved around. Performed by a trained Myomassologist, in combination with acupressure massage, organic oils are used to allow the cups to be moved in a gliding action across the back, stomach, or treated area. This ancient therapy of the Ming Dynasty can be used to massage many parts of the body as well as work therapeutically through transferring tissue inside the cups as they are moved. Moving the bodily fluids around in such a way assists in the overall relaxation and detoxifying of the system.
Although this therapy is not common-place or very familiar in North America, fire cupping has been in use in traditional Chinese medicine for some 2300 years in China, and is also found throughout European folk medicine. It is called 'Fire Cupping Therapy" because the procedure uses both fire and cups (round glass globes). This treatment is based on introducing a flame to the cup to create a vacuum in the glass globe. The negative pressure within the vacuum makes the glass cups adhere to the skin, drawing up a bit of skin and superficial muscle tissue, as well as attracting blood and lymph fluids to the site in large quantities. Fresh oxygenated blood saturates the tissue (organs and muscle) beneath the cups.
The way it works is that the suction stimulates the acupressure points and meridians of your body similar to the way acupuncture needles work for the points and meridians, but with no risk of infection by needles, or dealing with the fear of needles. The cups are placed on the back over pre-selected acupressure points causing a reddening of the skin, and they can be moved around. Performed by a trained Myomassologist, in combination with acupressure massage, organic oils are used to allow the cups to be moved in a gliding action across the back, stomach, or treated area. This ancient therapy of the Ming Dynasty can be used to massage many parts of the body as well as work therapeutically through transferring tissue inside the cups as they are moved. Moving the bodily fluids around in such a way assists in the overall relaxation and detoxifying of the system.
A Fire Cupping Treatment will leave you feeling wonderful afterward and more energetic for many days.
It is a safe and completely natural therapy for people of all ages!
Muscle Therapy: Fire cupping has a similar effect to a deep-tissue massage, but from the inside-out. It relaxes the muscles and restores the function of your internal organs. Cupping is especially useful over 'knots' in sore, tired, aching muscles where the blood has been squeezed out of the muscle through tension. This newly gathered oxygenated blood bathes the muscle deep to its core, lubricating fibers and contributing to the healing of the tissue. Lymph also removes the painful build-up of lactic acid in the tired muscles. These physiological changes brought about by cupping decrease tension in the muscle and restores blood, thereby relaxing it. There is a stimulating effect on the overall immune system created by this therapy as well as increased energy.
Remedial Therapy: Fire cupping therapy has the reputation of being the cure for the common cold. It is mainly used for the treatment of pain, gastro-intestinal disorders, and lung diseases like chronic cough and asthma. Cupping can promote the respiratory system and the reproductive system as well as the immune system. It is especially effective at rejuvenating and cleansing the bladder and liver, as well as clearing the lungs and stimulating sluggish organs. It is even more effective when used in combination with other types of muscle therapy, such as myomassology.
Digestive Therapy: Cupping therapy used within Digestive Wellness treatments can also be used to promote digestion through the large colon. Cups placed strategically over the ascending, transverse, descending and sigmoid colon stimulate a process called peristalsis. Peristalsis requires a large quantity of blood to propel food matter through the digestive tract's muscular walls. Peristalsis shuts down if there isn't enough blood available and food is left to accumulate instead of passing along the digestive tract, causing blockages. This condition is often brought on by stress.
Stress automatically shunts blood from the body's organs in the core of the body to the arms and legs via the “fight or flight” mechanism during emergencies. This primitive survival technique helped us when we were hunters and gatherers but in modern time our bodies cannot recognize and detect real emergencies. The body will shunt blood to the extremities of the body during perceived 'emergencies', like if we are late for work, agitated about a relationship, frustrated about money, or any of the plethora of stressors we live through day to day. Because life in this modern age creates many stressors, the organ tissues in the core of our body are left deprived of blood and do not perform the way they are supposed to. Restoring blood to the colon, therefore, stimulates the digestive system to function normally once more.
Remedial Therapy: Fire cupping therapy has the reputation of being the cure for the common cold. It is mainly used for the treatment of pain, gastro-intestinal disorders, and lung diseases like chronic cough and asthma. Cupping can promote the respiratory system and the reproductive system as well as the immune system. It is especially effective at rejuvenating and cleansing the bladder and liver, as well as clearing the lungs and stimulating sluggish organs. It is even more effective when used in combination with other types of muscle therapy, such as myomassology.
Digestive Therapy: Cupping therapy used within Digestive Wellness treatments can also be used to promote digestion through the large colon. Cups placed strategically over the ascending, transverse, descending and sigmoid colon stimulate a process called peristalsis. Peristalsis requires a large quantity of blood to propel food matter through the digestive tract's muscular walls. Peristalsis shuts down if there isn't enough blood available and food is left to accumulate instead of passing along the digestive tract, causing blockages. This condition is often brought on by stress.
Stress automatically shunts blood from the body's organs in the core of the body to the arms and legs via the “fight or flight” mechanism during emergencies. This primitive survival technique helped us when we were hunters and gatherers but in modern time our bodies cannot recognize and detect real emergencies. The body will shunt blood to the extremities of the body during perceived 'emergencies', like if we are late for work, agitated about a relationship, frustrated about money, or any of the plethora of stressors we live through day to day. Because life in this modern age creates many stressors, the organ tissues in the core of our body are left deprived of blood and do not perform the way they are supposed to. Restoring blood to the colon, therefore, stimulates the digestive system to function normally once more.