Patent Application
20220008632
The present invention is related to the cupping auxiliary consumable, the cup device and the cupping method in the medical field.
Body's circulation is responsible to send blood, oxygen and nutrients to all the cells throughout the body. When blood flow to a specific part of the body slows down, the body will experience symptoms of poor circulations. The common symptoms of poor circulation include: tingling, numbness, throbbing or stinging pain, muscle cramps.
The causes or consequences of poor circulation can be peripheral artery diseases, blood clots, varicose veins, diabetes, obesity, Raynaud's disease etc.
There have been different methods to diagnose poor circulation: 1) physical exam to detect pain and swelling; 2) blood antibody test to detect inflammatory conditions, such as Raynaud's disease; 3) blood sugar test for diabetes; 4) blood test to look for high levels of D dimer in the case of a blood clot; 5) ultrasound or CT scan; 6) blood pressure tests of the arms and legs.
Treatment for poor circulation may include: 1) compression socks for painful or swollen legs; 2) laser or endoscopic vein surgery for varicose veins; 3) insulin for diabetes; 4) special exercise program recommended by doctors; 5) blood thinner drugs such as aspirin.
Besides, there are another type of treatment that hasn't been explored in conventional medicine yet, but was adopted in many countries in the past: bloodletting.
Bloodletting has been criticized widely mainly because: 1) it caused some death in the past, including President George Washington, who had been bled heavily after he developed a throat infection, leading to too much blood loss and blood pressure drop; 2) some people were impressed that bloodletting is done with leeches, which is ethically and hygienically inappropriate. These biased media exposures prevent the adoption of bloodletting in the medical field.
In fact, bloodletting has been undervalued. In western world, one of the most influential medical journals, the Lancet, got its name exactly because of the effectiveness of bloodletting with lancet. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, bloodletting was documented more than two thousand years ago. It is an effective way to promote circulation. However, instead of bleeding big veins or arteries, Traditional Chinese Medicine usually do bloodletting on spider veins with lancets for only a few drops of blood.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, there is another therapy called cupping. It makes use of negative pressure to suck on the skin. The negative pressure can be created using fire to heat the air inside the cup (
When the cupping is performed after puncturing the skin with lancet, some blood will be sucked out. This is often called bloodletting cupping in Chinese Medicine. With this type of bloodletting, at most a few milliliter blood can be sucked out. When only a few drops of blood are sucked out, they are usually wiped away with cotton balls. If more blood is sucked out, the medical staff usually uses bigger gauze to absorb the blood while removing the cup from the skin.
According to an aspect of the present invention, a cupping auxiliary consumable is provided. The characteristics includes: a blood-absorbent pad suitable to place into a cupping cup with the surface against the skin being made of material that is permeable to body fluid.
Preferably, the size of the blood-absorbent pad is suitable for being placed inside the cup, and the shape of the pad is flat or concave.
Preferably, the surface layer of the blood-absorbent pad against the skin is treated with anticoagulant substances to prevent the blood clot and promote bloodletting during the cupping treatment.
Preferably, the backing layer of the blood-absorbent pad is impermeable to fluid, to prevent the absorbed body fluid from leaking out to pollute the environment or spread diseases.
Preferably, an adhesive is coated around the blood-absorbent pad to stick to the cup.
Preferably, the interior of the blood-absorbent pad is cellulose material, polymeric foam, or absorbent resin.
Preferably, the cupping auxiliary consumables further include: an adhesive layer to adhere the cupping cup to the skin; and a single-sided release paper for protecting the adhesive layer before cupping and seal the soiled blood-absorbent pad after cupping.
Preferably, the adhesive layer is a double-sided adhesive tape. When applied, one side of it adheres to the edge of the cup and the other side of it adheres to the skin.
Preferably, the release paper is impermeable to liquid with one side being coated with release agent such as silicon oil, and the other side being the plain paper; before cupping, the release paper can be easily removed from the adhesive tape, and after cupping, the plain paper side is placed back to the adhesive tape to seal the soiled pad inside.
Preferably, the adhesive tape and the blood-absorbent pad are integrated, or the two are separable.
According to another aspect of the present invention, a cup kit for bloodletting cupping is provided, including: a cup; a sanitary blood-absorbent pad placed in the cup.
Preferably, the cup further includes: an adhesive surface adhering the cup to the skin; a single-sided release paper that protects the adhesive surface before use and seal the soiled blood-absorbent pad after use.
Preferably, the adhesive surface is integrated with the cup, and the entire cup is disposable.
Optionally, the cup has at least one suck opening, which is in contact with the skin during application to suck on the skin due to the internal low pressure.
Optionally, the material of the cup is glass, metal, silicone, plastic or rubber.
Optionally, the cup also includes a mechanical structure that can be operated to create low pressure inside the cup.
Optionally, the mechanical structure is an air suction port, from which air can be suctioned out and internal low pressure is created.
Alternatively, the cup can be operated to reduce the internal space by external force, followed by attaching the cup suck opening to the skin, increasing the internal space back by the elasticity of the cup or external force to create internal low pressure.
According to another aspect of the present invention, a method for bloodletting cupping with a cup kit is provided. The cup kit includes a cup, a sanitary blood-absorbent pad placed inside the cup, an adhesive surface around the cup suck opening for connecting the cup and the skin, and a release paper. The method includes: removing the release paper from the adhesive surface; attach the cup to the skin; create a low pressure inside the cup to suck on the human skin; the blood is sucked out of the skin and absorbed into the blood-absorbent pad; releasing the low pressure; remove the cup from the skin; discard the entire cup kit if it is disposable, or take the blood-absorbent pad away from the cup to discard and recycle the cup for sterilization.
Preferably, in the cupping method, the release paper is impermeable to fluid with one sided being coated with release agent such as silicon oil, and the other side being plain paper. Before the cupping, the surface with release agent is attached to the adhesive tape. When the release paper is removed from the adhesive tape. After the cupping, place back the release paper onto the adhesive tape on the plain paper side to seal the soiled pad.
Using the cupping auxiliary consumables, the cup kit and the bloodletting cupping method of the embodiments of the present invention, by placing a blood-absorbent pad in the cup, the blood sucked out from the human body is directly absorbed by the blood-absorbent pad and stays there, without the need for the medical staff to spare the hands to wipe out the blood with gauze pads. The doctor can carry out the bloodletting cupping operation with less hassle, and with the blood sucked away by the blood-absorbent pad without soiling the cup, the whole bloodletting cupping becomes a sanitary process and minimizes infection possibilities.
Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments according to the present application will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, not all the embodiments of the present application, and it should be understood that the present application is not limited by the example embodiments described herein.
The following describes an example of a cupping auxiliary consumable and a cup kit equipped with such a cupping auxiliary consumable for bloodletting cupping.
The present application provides a blood-absorbent pad suitable for being placed in a cup for bloodletting cupping. The surface layer of the blood-absorbent pad that is adjacent to the human skin is made of a material permeable to fluid.
The blood-absorbent pad can be sold by itself, and the shape and size can be adjusted according to the size and shape of the cups on the market. Or the blood-absorbent pad and the cup can pre-assembled to form a disposable cup kit.
The blood-absorbent pad for cupping has the following benefits: during cupping, the blood sucked out by the cupping is directly absorbed by the blood-absorbent pad, therefore there is no need for the medical staff to spare the hands to wipe the blood away with gauzes or the like. Furthermore, it will not soil the cup and make the whole operation process hygiene.
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It should be noted that the double-sided adhesive tape and the blood-absorbent pad may be integrated, or the two may be separated.
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The blood-absorbent pad can be sold alone, and the shape and size can be adjusted according to the size and shape of the cup in the market. Or the blood-absorbent pad can be integrated with the cup to form a disposable cup for bloodletting.
The following will describe different cups that can be used for the cup kit according to the embodiment of the present invention.
The cup used in the embodiment of the present invention may be a cup as shown in
The cup can also have one opening, for example, as shown in
The cup can also be as shown in
The present disclosure provides a method for cupping with a blood-absorbent pad, double-sided adhesive and a cup according to an embodiment of the present invention: peeling the release paper off the double-sided adhesive; connect the cup and the skin; form a low pressure inside the cup thereby sucking up human skin; human blood is sucked from the skin to the blood-absorbent pad; low pressure is removed; take the cup away from the skin; seal the soiled blood-absorbent pad with release paper on the plain paper side.
The embodiments of the present invention have been described above. The above description is exemplary, not exhaustive, and is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the illustrated embodiments. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the protection scope of the claims.
