The Ancient Therapy of Fire Cupping: A Favorite Among 2024 Olympic Athletes

All over the world, and since time immemorial, cupping has been utilized to promote healing, reduce pain, and enhance overall well-being. This ancient therapy involves placing cups on the skin and creating a vacuum by heating the air inside them. As the air cools, it creates suction that draws the skin and superficial muscle layer into the cup.

In recent years, cupping has gained popularity among athletes, including those competing in the 2024 Olympic Games. These elite athletes have discovered that cupping can help them recover more quickly from intense training sessions, reduce muscle soreness, and enhance performance.

One of the reasons why fire cupping is favoured by athletes is its ability to target specific areas of the body that may be overworked or injured. By promoting blood flow to these areas and releasing tension in the muscles, cupping can help athletes recover faster and get back to training at their peak level.

Moreover, cupping is a non-invasive therapy that can be easily incorporated into an athlete's training regimen. It is a natural and drug-free way to support the body's healing processes and maintain optimal physical condition.

As we witness more and more Olympic athletes incorporating cupping into their routine, it is clear that this ancient therapy has found a new place in the modern world of sports. Its ability to promote recovery, reduce pain, and enhance performance makes it a valuable tool for athletes striving to reach the pinnacle of their sport.

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Hong Kong’s first traditional Chinese medicine hospital to open in 2025, but why only now?
https://www.scmp.com/video/hong-kong/3270257/hong-kongs-first-traditional-chinese-medicine-hospital-open-2025-why-only-now
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Generally, three scholarly traditions can be recognised in medicine (1):
- Greek
- Ayurvedic
- Chinese

These great achievements of humankind represent medical systems that over centuries have grown by academic discourse. Other medical practices have served patients round the world as well, yet these have not had the enrichment of continued use and critical appraisal by specialists.

However, no system is pure in itself, and while for example Japanese and Korean medicine fall under the heading of Chinese medicine, and have their roots in the classical Chinese literature, practitioners from these countries object against being seen as merely part the influence sphere of Chinese politics.

Also within the country of China, a rich and varied landscape of medical methods presents itself. Especially notable are hybrid systems that have some of their origins in Traditional Chinese Medicine, but other roots in very different schools of thought. Uyghur Medicine is a combination of Unani, Ayurveda, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tibetan Medicine is a combination of Ayurveda, Bon and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Mongolian medicine is a combination of shamanism and Traditional Chinese Medicine. (2)

It is good to recognize the commonalities as well as the differences between these three systems of medicine within the borders of modern China. (3) China is a vast country, with many different beautiful traditions.

(1) Don Bates - Knowledge and Scholarly Traditions
(2) Elaine Yu - China’s Other Medical Systems: Recognizing Uyghur, Tibetan, and Mongolian Traditional Medicines (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26937317/ )
(3) Zhen Gao - Emergence and development of Uyghur medicine from the perspective of Chinese traditional medicine DOI: 10.1142/S2575900019100037

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New free Chinese herbal database launched called SuperTCM

SuperTCM is an online resource that connects data from multiple scientific sources and languages. Drug information from published TCM databases and the official Chinese Pharmacopoeia as well as specialized meta-websites such as Kew’s Medicinal Plant Names Service was integrated on a higher level. The aim of this new herbals database is to facilitate the studies of the actions of TCM drugs and expand their applications.

The SuperTCM database can be searched for:
- Plant/Herb
- Recipe
- Ingredient
- Target
- Disease

http://tcm.charite.de

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This article gives a comprehensive overview of the use of #traditional #Chinese #herbal #medicine in #China in the #treatment of #COVID-19.

"As it became clear that the epidemic in #Wuhan was going to be both severe and drawn out, discussions of the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in historical responses to epidemics in China began to appear on both scholarly and popular media platforms in China. For example, a five-part documentary news series on the role of Chinese medicine in fighting the epidemic in Hubei devoted a good deal of the first episode to reviewing how classical herbal formulas were developed and used in epidemic outbreaks throughout Chinese history. The National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (NATCM)4 published a colorful scroll of cartoon drawings on its official social media site to bring this history to the public.5 The scroll begins in the Han dynasty and takes us up to the present day, reviewing the use of Chinese herbal medicine to treat smallpox, cholera, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, bubonic plague, influenza, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Before the influx of Western medicine in the nineteenth century, sophisticated theories and methods from within the tradition of medicine and medical literature in China were used to address these conditions."

https://brill.com/view/journals/asme/16/1/article-p11_2.xml
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