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Cupping

Cupping is an alternative therapy that involves suctioning the skin with glass, plastic, or silicone cups. It may help improve blood flow, boost immune function, remove toxins, and reduce pain.

Have you noticed more and more celebrities showing up to events with little round marks on their backs? These come from cupping therapy. But what is it?

Cupping is a type of alternative therapy that involves placing cups on the skin to create suction. This suction is thought to improve the flow of energy in the body and facilitate healing.

One of the oldest medical texts to mention cupping therapy is Eber’s papyrus (1550 B.C.) from Ancient Egypt, though cupping is a part of many ancient healing systems, including Chinese, Unani, traditional Korean, and Tibetan.

Greek physician Hippocrates, often referred to as the “father” of medicine, even compiled descriptions of cupping techniques.

These days, cupping therapy is usually found as a treatment offered by practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Proponents believe the suction helps facilitate the flow of “qi” in the body. Qi is a Chinese word meaning life force.

Many believe that cupping helps balance yin and yang, or the negative and positive, within the body. Restoring balance between these two extremes is thought to help with the body’s resistance to pathogens as well as its ability to increase blood flow and reduce pain.

Cupping increases blood circulation to the area where the cups are placed. This may relieve muscle tension, which can improve overall blood flow and promote cell repair. It may also help form new connective tissues and create new blood vessels in the tissue.

According to its advocates, cupping is supposed to promote healing and has been used extensively for sore muscles. But that’s only the beginning. Cupping has also been used forback and neck pain skin diseases such as acne and hives lowering cholesterol migraines knee arthritis improving immune function. And there are many others. If cupping does help with these problems, it’s worth asking: how? From a biological perspective, it’s not clear how the application of suction and drawing blood into an area under the skin would provide all these benefits. A recent review of the treatment describes cupping as a treatment that can strengthen the body’s resistance, restore balance between positive and negative forces, remove disease-causing factors, and promote blood circulation. But exactly how is unclear.
  • Shingles pain
  • Facial paralysis
  • Spinal disk wear and tear (cervical spondylosis)
  • High blood pressure
  • Cardiovascular disease prevention
  • Musculoskeletal pain
  • Lower back pain
  • Neck pain
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Headache
  • Migraine
  • Cellulitis
  • Cough
  • Cold
  • Asthma
  • Acne
  • Urticaria
  • Soft tissue injury
  • Arthritis
  • Neurodermatitis
  • Therapists may also use cupping as a cosmetic technique to improve the appearance of facial skin.
promoting the skin’s blood flow changing the skin’s biomechanical properties increasing pain thresholds improving local anaerobic (without oxygen) metabolism reducing inflammation boosting cellular immunity

Dry cupping : The air inside a plastic or glass cup is suctioned or vacuumed out by placing the cup on the skin. In most cases, the cups can be used at rest or while moving.

Wet cupping / Hijama / Bleeding : Wet cupping creates a mild suction by leaving a cup in place for about 3 minutes. The therapist then removes the cup and uses a small scalpel to make light, tiny cuts on your skin. Next, they do a second suction to draw out a small quantity of blood
Oil cupping / Sliding cupping : Its a technique where massage oils are applied, cups are attached to the body and then slide across an area.

Flash cupping / Empty cupping : It involves quick repeated application of cups, with minimal retention. It reduces local congestion and stimulate circulation over a broader area

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