INSTANT-SUCTION PRESSURE-ADJUSTABLE CUPPING DEVICE AND CUPPING THERAPY METHOD USING THE SAME

• US 20130035615A1
• Filed: 08/02/2011
• Published: 02/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lisa Li-Chen Hsieh
• Original Assignee: Lisa Li-Chen Hsieh
• Inventors: HSIEH, Lisa Li-Chen
• Application Number:
  US13/196,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20130035615A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 601/6
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/018 By limiting the applied torque or force
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/5071 Pressure sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 9/0057 Suction suction kneading A61H7/008

Abstract

The present invention discloses an instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device and a cupping therapy method using the same. The method of the present invention comprises steps: respectively measuring cupping pressure-drop values of various regions of healthy persons and patients as normal pressure-drop values and reference pressure-drop values, and storing the data in a database; retrieving from the database one reference pressure-drop value corresponding to a cupped region of a patient; performing a weighted calculation on the reference pressure-drop value to obtain a pressure-drop value for the patient according to regulation factors, including the personal elementary conditions, symptom and cupped region; placing a cupping vessel of the instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device on the region to be cupped, exhausting air inside the cupping vessel with an air pump until the pressure-drop value is attained, and keeping the cupping vessel staying on the body of the patient to perform a cupping therapy.

Claims

1. A cupping therapy method comprising steps:

measuring cupping pressure-drop values of various regions of healthy persons as normal pressure-drop values, and measuring cupping pressure-drop values of various regions of patients as reference pressure-drop values, and storing said normal pressure-drop values and said reference pressure-drop values in a database of a cupping device;

retrieving from said database one said reference pressure-drop value corresponding to a region of a patient to be cupped;

performing a weighted calculation on said reference pressure-drop value to obtain a pressure-drop value for said patient according to a plurality of regulation factors, including personal elementary conditions of said patient, symptoms of said patient to be treated, and a region of said patient to be cupped;

placing at least one cupping vessel on said region to be cupped, and exhausting air inside said cupping vessel with an air pump until said pressure-drop value is attained.

2. The cupping therapy method according to claim 1, wherein said regions include chests, necks, abdomens, and limbs, and wherein said personal elementary conditions include age, gender, and physiological/psychiatric states.

3. The cupping therapy method according to claim 1, wherein weighting said symptoms of said patient to be treated involves weighting types of symptoms, seriousness of symptoms, and regions to be cupped.

4. The cupping therapy method according to claim 1, wherein weighting said region of said patient to be cupped involves weighting flatness of skin, robustness of tissue, and size of said region.

5. The cupping therapy method according to claim 1, wherein said regulation factors include whether said region to be cupped has an acupoint, and whether said acupoint is to be hit.

6. The cupping therapy method according to claim 1, wherein said pressure-drop value ranges from 200 to 620 mmHg.

7. The cupping therapy method according to claim 1, wherein said pressure-drop value is obtained via obtaining a sum of a plurality of weighted values of said regulation factors and using said sum to perform a weighted calculation on said reference pressure-drop value.

8. The cupping therapy method according to claim 1, wherein cupping vessels having different sizes of openings are respectively applied to different sizes of said regions to be cupped.

9. The cupping therapy method according to claim 1, wherein said air pump is equipped with at least one pressure meter indicating pressure inside said cupping vessel.

10. The cupping therapy method according to claim 1, wherein said cupping device includes said cupping vessel and said air pump.

11. An instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device comprising

a plurality of vacuum tanks;

a vacuum pump connecting with said vacuum tanks via a plurality of first hoses and exhausting said vacuum tanks to have a negative pressure;

at least one cupping vessel connecting with said vacuum tanks via at least one second hose; and

a plurality of sets of electromagnetic valves arranged on said hoses, wherein each set of said electromagnetic valves has two electromagnetic valves respectively arranged on two sides of said vacuum tank, and wherein said vacuum pump and said electromagnetic valves are switched on or off to control pressure inside said vacuum tanks.

12. The instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device according to claim 11 further comprising a first pressure meter arranged at a joint of said vacuum pump and said first hoses and used to show a pressure value of said vacuum pump, wherein said vacuum pump and said electromagnetic valves are switched on/off manually or by an adjustable pressure switch automatically.

13. The instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device according to claim 11 further comprising second pressure meters respectively arranged on said cupping vessels and showing pressures inside said cupping vessels.

14. The instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device according to claim 11, wherein said vacuum tanks have an identical size or respectively have different sizes.

15. The instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device according to claim 11, wherein an elastic packing ring is arranged on a bottom of said cupping vessel and increases airtightness between said cupping vessel and skin of a user.

16. The instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device according to claim 11, wherein said cupping vessels respectively have different sizes and base areas.

17. The instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device according to claim 11, wherein each set of said electromagnetic valves includes a first electromagnetic valve and a second electromagnetic valve, and wherein said first electromagnetic valve is arranged between said vacuum pump and said vacuum tank, and wherein said second electromagnetic valve is arranged between said vacuum tank and said cupping vessel.

18. The instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device according to claim 17, wherein said vacuum pump and said first electromagnetic valve are switched on to evacuate said vacuum tank.

19. The instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device according to claim 17, wherein said cupping vessel is placed on a region to be cupped, and wherein said second electromagnetic valve is switched on to exhaust air inside said cupping vessel.

20. The instant-suction pressure-adjustable cupping device according to claim 15, wherein said elastic packing ring is made of a flexible airtight material that is selected from a group consisting of silicone rubber, Teflon, rubber and plastic.