E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten, ePub
Manz The Art of Cupping
2. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-13-257940-8
Verlag: Thieme
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten, ePub
ISBN: 978-3-13-257940-8
Verlag: Thieme
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
For over 5,000 years, cupping has been used across the globe to treat a broad spectrum of health disorders. It is a safe and well-tolerated therapy and requires only simple and inexpensive tools to achieve highly effective results. This comprehensive guide features all the information a practitioner needs, including step-by-step instructions for application, treatment of specific health problems, and a review of the historical background.
Key Features:
- Detailed explanation of dry and wet cupping
- Practical application described for 48 different disorders
- Illustrated by real-life photographs from the author's practice
- Compact, user-friendly format for easy reference
Each chapter of the practical section deals with a specific area of the body and the disorders associated with it. Each topic discusses a patient's complaint, the appropriate cupping application, supplementary and alternative therapies, as well as preventive treatment. Practice-oriented and highly detailed, this is an invaluable reference for experienced practitioners and students alike.
The second edition features new subchapters on cupping in foot reflexology, treating irritable bowel syndrome, vegetative regulation disorders, and burnout. The topics are presented in a new and improved layout and explained with the help of enhanced four-color illustrations.
is the ideal introduction to this fascinating traditional healing method, while also serving as a helpful review for the experienced practitioner.
This book includes complimentary access to a digital copy on https://medone.thieme.com.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Part 1 Introduction and Foundations
1 Historical Background.
2 What Do We Mean by "Cupping"?
3 The Therapeutic Conception of Dry Cupping
4 Self-regulatory Mechanisms in the Body—A Crash Course for Patients
Part 2 Clinical Applications of Cupping Therapy
5 Preliminary Comments
6 Dry Cupping
7 Wet Cupping
Part 3 Cupping Therapy of Indicated Disorders and Complaints
8 Comments on the Organization and Use of this Part
9 Disorders of the Head
10 Respiratory Tract
11 Cardiovascular System
12 Digestive Organs
13 Locomotor System
14 Reproductive Organs
15 Urinary Tracts
16 Nervous System
17 Venous Disorders
18 Obesity (Adipositas, Overweight)
19 Cellulitis (Adipositas Circumscripta Oedematosa); Cellulite (Dermopanniculosis Deformans)
20 Weather Sensitivity and Weather-Triggered Symptoms and Complaints
Part 4 Cupping Therapy in Conventional Western Medicine
21 Cupping as Supportive Therapy within Conventional Western Medicine
Part 5 Appendix
22 Myths and Facts
23 Conclusion
24 Figure Credits
25 Bibliography
3 The Therapeutic Conception of Dry Cupping
3.1 Dry Cupping as Segmental Therapy
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Treatment at the site of the illness or at the reflex zones that correspond to the site of the illness, that is, at those skin areas that are connected to viscera via nerve tracts, is referred to as segmental therapy.
From time immemorial, almost all cultures have discovered and exploited in therapy the connections between viscera and the surface of the body. They used them to exert a healing effect on the deeper-lying organs, for example by applying warmth or cold or even by cupping. In the past, nobody knew why any of this was helpful. It simply was. It was most important to relieve complaints or achieve recovery. We are also very familiar with the influence of the skin on viscera. To reduce or eliminate pain, it is often enough to massage the corresponding skin areas lightly. The first discoveries in this field came from the Chinese. They recognized that it is possible to influence internal organs and pathologic complaints from certain points on the skin (acupuncture) or to surmise disease in certain organs on the basis of localized complaints.
3.1.1 “Head’s Zones”—Reflex Paths from Skin to Organ
More recently, the British neurologist Henry Head (1861–1940) also observed this phenomenon and discovered that reflex paths exist between the body’s surface (skin) and the viscera. He realized, for example, that patients with gallbladder disorders tend to be particularly sensitive to pain at the costal arches and at certain regions on the back. Kidney patients experience skin and muscle pain in the lower back on the affected side or frontally in the area around the bladder. Henry Head discovered that the and hypersensitive skin areas almost always lie on the same side of the body as the In addition, he observed that other diseases of viscera also resulted in elevated skin temperature or pain, but also disturbed blood circulation in the corresponding parts of the body’s surface (often far away from the affected organ). These suggest neural interactions between the viscera and the corresponding body surface.
Head’s research supplied the confirmation and therefore the scientific basis for the ancient experience of folk healing that the reflex connections from the body’s surface to the diseased organ can be utilized to have a curative effect on viscera. This has been corroborated by other researchers, such as Mackenzie (myogelosis), Vogler, Krauss (osteovisceral reflex paths), Preusser, Kötschau (gelosis), Hansen and von Staa (muscle reflexes), Pischinger, Kellner, Heine, Bergsam (processes in the vegetative nervous system), and others.
The investigations of Head and other well-known scientists finally explained and proved the way in which segmental cupping therapy and cupping diagnosis work. In segmental therapy, the skin plays the key role. It has specific relationships to the centers of the nervous system.
Note
The skin surface is divided into segments, so to speak, corresponding to the entrance and exit levels of the individual spinal roots in the spinal cord.
The spinal fibers pair up into spinal nerves (spinal column nerves) on the right and left between two vertebrae where they exit from the spinal cord. Since they supply strip-shaped areas of the skin, segmentation arises, which are called segments or dermatomes. These dermatomes are highly important also for the segmental diagnosis of spinal cord damage.
Note
In relation to the location where the nerves exit the spinal column, these segments are divided into:
C = area of the cervical vertebrae
T = area of the thoracic vertebrae
L = area of the lumbar vertebrae
S = area of the sacrum
Note
Every skin segment at the same time also has neural connections to certain viscera in the thoracic, abdominal, and sacral space. Biological functional circles (stimulatory circles) of the nervous system are in charge of the connections. These circles build a bridge between skin, central organs of the nervous system, and viscera. We now know these connections as so-called “cutivisceral/viscerocutaneous” reflex tracts (? Fig. 3.1).
The diseased organ sends stimuli via the vegetative nerves to the corresponding skin areas, which can respond with tension, pressure points, swelling, atrophy of connective tissue, or chronic pain. These painful, hypersensitive, or changed skin areas are referred to as “Head’s zones.”
Each organ is represented in one zone (? Table 3.1).
Note
Head’s zones are of practical significance for segmental therapy and diagnosis (? Fig. 3.2).
Fig. 3.1 Simplified illustration of the cutivisceral reflex paths. (From: Faller A, Schünke M. Der Körper des Menschen. 15th ed. Stuttgart: Thieme; 2008)
Table 3.1 Head’s zones of the organs
| Organ | Zone |
| Heart C3–T4 | ? predominantly left |
| Esophagus T4–T6 | ? left or right |
| Lungs/bronchial tubes C3–T9 | ? left or right |
| Stomach T8–T9 | ? predominantly left |
| Small intestine C3–T10 | ? right or left |
| Large intestine C3–T11 | ? right or left |
| Liver/gallbladder T8–T11 | ? right |
| Pancreas T7–T10 | ? left |
| Spleen T11 | ? left |
| Kidneys/ureter T8–S4 | ? left or right |
| Bladder on both sides T10–S4 | ? left or right |
| Uterus/ovaries and testicles T10–L3 | ? left or right |
Fig. 3.2 Orienting illustration of the segments. (Schünke M, Schulte E, Schumacher U. Prometheus. THIEME Atlas of Anatomy. Head, Neck, and Neuroanatomy. Illustrations by M. Voll and K. Wesker. 3rd ed. Stuttgart: Thieme; 2020)
Note
Segment reactions almost always occur on the same side of the body as the diseased organ. Nevertheless, segments can also overlap, or the disease symptoms can, in longer-lasting illness, jump from one segment to another.
The cutivisceral and viscerocutaneous reflex paths (organ–spinal cord–skin connections) operate according to the principle of interaction or rather feedback mechanisms. In the same way that disease in the viscera manifests on the surface of the skin, we can also reversely transfer certain .
Via these , we can on the one hand explain certain disease processes: frequent occurrence of angina pectoris episodes in cold weather for example (this path also functions in the harmful sense, e. g., sudden cooling off of the chest skin can cause a heart attack). On the other hand, we can also affect the viscera therapeutically. Among other things, we take advantage of this fact in the case of cupping therapy. By placing the cups on the skin, we address the receptors in the skin and cause not only an improved localized...
