Cupping therapy is recorded in which ancient books?

Cupping therapy is also called angle therapy in ancient books. This is because doctors in ancient China used hollowed-out horns of animals as suction tools. In the silk book "Fifty-two Diseases Prescription" of Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, there has been a description of angle therapy: "Male hemorrhoids live near the orifices, the big ones are like dates, the small ones are like nuclei, and the small ones use horns, such as two buckets of rice, to open the corners." Among them, "with a small angle" means pulling with a small animal angle.

Fifty-two Prescriptions for Diseases can be regarded as the oldest medical book in China, which was written in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. This shows that at least around the 6th century BC, doctors in China have used cupping as a treatment.

In the Jin dynasty, there was a record of "angle method" in the elbow urgent prescription written by Ge Hong, a medical scientist. The so-called horn method is an external treatment method of sucking abscess with hollowed-out animal horns. The horns used are horns. In view of the prevalence of this method at that time, improper application is easy to cause accidents.

Therefore, Ge Hong specially reminded that we should carefully choose the symptoms. The book emphasizes: "carbuncle, tumor, stone carbuncle, tendon knot, scrofula, etc. should not point to the angle." Less people are worse than disaster. " This obviously makes sense, because most of the diseases listed in the book are really not indications for cupping.