Magic treatment of Ba Guan

Ba Guan(Ventouse) is one of common ways to cure diseases by traditional Chinese herbalist doctors. It has such functions as follows: driving away coldness and humidity, dredging the body channels, getting rid of the blood stagnation, enhancing blood circulation, detumescene and acesodyne, eradicating poison and rushing down heat. All these can help to adjust the balance of yin & yang, and release you from tiredness to strengthen your body, which meets the purpose of strengthening body resistance to dispel pathogenic factors. Therefore, we can adopt Ba Guan to cure many diseases.

The most common tool for Ba Guan is jar, which includes glass jars, ceramic jars, bamboo jars, rubber jars, etc. Even the canning jar at home also can be used to be the tool for Ba Guan. What is the most commonly used in clinic are glass jars, ceramic jars and bamboo jars, while the rubber jar is more often used at home because of its hand-pinching convenience. You can understand it easily no matter whether you know iatrology, and just cure it anywhere as long as it aches. But its effect is relatively weaker because it does not use fire, so no hospital will use it generally. Glass jars are smooth and transparent, which enables you to watch the conditions of blood congestion, stagnation, forming bubbles and bloodletting inside the jar. So it is often applied in clinic.

Another tool for Ba Guan is Tan Zi or called firebrand. You can fold an end of a section of thicker lead wire to be a circle for easy-holding, while the other end should be tangled with cotton as well as gauze for dipping alcohol to be ignited.

The main methods of Ba Guan contain: Ba Guan, Shan Guan, Zou Guan and bloodletting Ba Guan.

Ba Guan is the most simple and basic way. Generally, you can hold a jar in one hand, and take the ignited Tan Zi in the other hand. Shake Tan Zi inside the jar for several times, and take it out, then put the jar on the part needed to be cured and lift the jar slightly to see whether it has been sucked in the right place. Please note: do not coat the alcohol on the mouth of the jar or drop the alcohol onto the skin of patients; otherwise it will burn the sufferer.

Shan Guan should follow these steps: take down the lifted jar quickly and re-lift the jar. Repeat the procedures for several times. Shan Guan method is often used for the cold symptoms, sweeny, and the point that needs to be strongly stimulated. You have to pay attention to: when the jar is in the repeated lifting, the temperature of the jar itself is raising, so you need to prepare more jars to prevent the skin from burning by using jars alternatively.

Zou Guan means that you can raise the jar slightly with one or two hands after the jar-lifting, and pull and push it on your skin. It can move in a direction, and also can move to and fro. So we can say, Zou Guan is not to function at one point, but several points, one part or passage of body channels. The back bladder channel is the common part for Zou Guan. Several points you should notice: to protect your skin, you need to daub some lubricant on the mouth of the jar or the body part that needs Zou Guan, such as: glycerin, olefin oil, and measles scratching oil. Zou Guan is always used for aching in the back, coldness, dizziness, influenza, etc.

Bloodletting Ba Guan means that you can use the triangular needle to pinprick several times on the certain point or abscess part and start Ba Guan. The stagnated blood and purulent blood will flow out with the eye of the needle. Pay attention when you are carrying through the bloodletting Ba Guan: sterilize after lifting the jar. The method is often seen for the diseases caused by fever and pyretic toxicity.

These postures are usually adopted for Ba Guan: be on one's back, be in prone position, sit, etc.

Taboo: Ba Guan is not used for the following groups: heart diseases, blood disease, skin diseases or broken skin, psychopathic or prissy, TB and varied infectious diseases, all kinds of fracture, extremely exhausted or weak, pregnant, women menses, too full or hungry or thirsty, drunken.

Attention:

1. Keep warm. You need to take off the clothes before Ba Guan, so try to prevent yourself from the wind and keep the room warm.

2. Avoid to be burned. Do not drop the igniting alcohol onto the patient's body and change the overheated jars frequently.

3. Tabooed body parts：The area before the heart, the slender place of skin, the broken skin, scar, nipple and bone -protruding places

4. No Ba Guan for the same place repeated everyday. You can't Ba Guan until the previous mark has disappeared.

5. Watch the condition of the patient carefully when Ba Guan. If the patient faints, handle with it immediately.