It would be nice to forget the old

Answering the main question of the number - what I would like to see the school - I would answer: "The corresponding scientific picture of the world." And this applies to both secondary and higher education. Educational literature for universities, technical schools, lyceums and gymnasiums is stuffed with outdated information, in one of the releases of the three-hobby, we analyzed this using the example of school biology textbooks [1]. It is not surprising that people later perceive as granted statements about the “100 vitamins” necessary for our body, or the effectiveness of some alternative-media diagnostic and therapeutic techniques.

However, as the Olympics in Rio showed, this problem seems to be international. At least, I was very surprised to see the characteristic traces of the production of medical cans on a really outstanding American athlete Michael Felps. But a real surprise expected ahead-it turned out that banks and a can massage sports doctors practice very widely; The coaches of the US national team talked about a wonderful effect, which can be obtained “without any chemistry”, and state athletes sparkled with violet bruises on different parts of their tired bodies. And somehow it is hard to believe that the same people have FDA, CDC and many other wonderful abbreviations.

So, what do we have with banks there, maybe this is really a good forgotten old one? This tool came from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and is essentially considered one of the options for bloodletting. Indeed, under the influence of vacuum, the vessels of the skin burst, and a local hematoma occurs. The fact that this still looks just like that, and our “grandmother” option with “gluing” cans to the skin of the back “burning oxygen” can be considered sparing, easily verify, driving the phrase “Cupping Skin” into any search engine. The Chinese method of setting the cans, when the vacuum is created using a sufficiently powerful pump, can indeed lead to not only intradermal hemorrhage, but also bleeding.

However, this is not the most interesting. Since the method arose in the pre-scientific era, when the knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, as well as the laws of the course of the disease, were in contraceptive, then it acts exactly within the framework of the religious and philosophical system of TCM. For example, this looks as follows: there is qi. What is this is a question for specialists in Chinese philosophy, but in medicine, if desired, this very extensible concept can be pulled to anything, for example, even to exhausted air.

For reasons known only to TCM, there is a blocking of qi circulation - either only in separate meridians, or in the entire body. It is possible to diagnose this condition, of course, only in TCM terms and only with the help of TCM tools, it is better not to meddle with scientific medicine, no evidence of diagnoses or translating them into a clear language. Banks remove this same block, and Qi can again circulate freely, no matter what an unverified statement means [2].

But maybe there is no need to demand modern formulations from an ancient and, of course, containing a certain rational grain of the art of healing? In the end, Nobel Artemizinin is from TKM. To do this, we need to check the same banks in the conditions of a controlled experiment. If they have an effect declared on the body, maybe we just have not grown up so far until understanding the deep mechanisms of what is happening?

Banks really studied, and quite actively. Even the review on the topic was published in 2012 in the journal PLOS One , and the real ethnic Chinese prepared it [3]. But the conclusions turned out to be disappointing: by 135 works published from 1992 to 2010, such a mass of design claims that only one study with a stretch can be recognized more or less high-quality and included in meta-analysis.

And then it is dedicated to the use of cans as part of the complex therapy of shingles.

Another group of Chinese researchers in 2013 tried to make a systematic review on the effectiveness of cans in pain in the lower back (the so -called Low Back Pain) [4]. They managed to find only one RCT (randomized controlled study), six clinical studies without randomization, 20 descriptions of clinical cases and two studies of the system “Well, it should somehow work!”. It is interesting that the authors honestly indicated that in RCTs (1st level of evidence) the effectiveness of the cans is comparable to the expectation of a visit to a neurologist, therefore they gained in a review of clinical cases (4th level of evidence) and even research 5th studies (it is defined as “experts without accurately critical assessment or research based on physiology data”) in order to at least somehow color the picture. It is quite a sign of pseudo -prison.

In addition, in the work, on the request of “Cupping Therapy”, you can find a lot of other signs of the Pseudo -Demedic methodology, for example, a huge, but not confirmed in RCT therapeutic spectrum: it is stated that “fabulous” banks help at 1001 (although in reality the article lists “total” 120) ailment [5].

But Felps and others say that it helps them? The key word here is “they say”. The champion with his 23 Golden Olympic medals (so many of them were at the time of writing the column) can tell him what helps him, for example, an evening dew glass from alpine edelweis, charged with the light of the growing moon. And 23 medals of the highest sample will tinkle melodically, confirming his case.

In addition, it is impossible to throw out psychological moments that are extremely important in the preparation of athletes: if the athlete is sure that the purple hut of the bruise after the cans make it superman for a while, he can really throw off a thousandth seconds from the result. Sometimes even this smallness is enough to win.

But only such a focus will not work on other people, banks and can massage will not save either from rheumatoid arthritis, or from multiple sclerosis, or from banal lumbago. Even if you believe in this technique with all your might, relying on outdated knowledge, and in illness - not to believe. Such things.

1. Vodovozov A., Vodovozov S. On modern biology textbooks // TRV-hobby. 2011. No. 71. S. 8.

2. Rushall K. Many Benefits of Chinese Cupping. Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. 09/20/2014. Pacificcollege.edu/news/blog/2014/09/20/many-benefits-chinese-Cpping .

3. Cao H.et Al. An updated Review of the Efficacy of Cupping Therapy // Plos One. 2016. DOI: 10.1371/Journal.0031793

4. Huang Ch.-Y. et al. Effectivence of Cupping Therapy for Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review // Acupunct Med. 2013. DOI: 10.1136/Acupmed-2013-010385

5. Bamfarahnak H. et al. A Tale of Persian Cupping Therapy: 1001 Potential Applications and Avenues for Research // Forsch Komplementmed. DOI: 10.1159/000358571