Cupping Therapy
Chinese Medicine has been around for five thousand years. Cupping is just one of the treatments found in the practice. Along with the Chinese, the Egyptians and Islamic world have a history of cupping that goes back to thousands of years also.
To start out the cups were made from bamboo, horn, clay pottery and bronze. Today the modern cup can be made from glass, plastic and rubber. To make the vacuum, fire and hot water or oil would be used to heat up the cup. This would heat the air inside the cup, expanding the air in it. Then the heated cup would be place on oiled skin, when the air-cooled, a vacuum would be made by the shrinking air inside.
Today, a flame made by a candle or a cotton ball soaked in alcohol heats the cups. Some times alcohol is put in the cup a lit to heat it. A safer way to form a vacuum today is to use a vacuum pump that fits an air valve on top of the cup. The hand pump used, has much more control of the vacuum applied, and no threat of being burned by heat.
The main sections of the body that the cups are used on are the back and stomach. Sometimes the legs and arms will have cups put on them too. The cups made of rubber will conform to the bony parts of the body, but the fleshy parts of the body are generally used the most.
Much of the cupping done today is the dry type. The wet type of cupping is used when some blood loss is wanted. The skin is pierced before the cup is placed on. Under vacuum, a small amount of blood will flow out into the cup. This is used to pull out toxins and bad blood from the body.
The main conditions that cupping is used for are Respiratory conditions like bronchitis, asthma and congestion. Gynecological Disorders, gastrointestinal disorders and pain have been treated successfully also with cupping.
After the treatment, you will have marks left on the cupping areas. These marks can be as little as red rings where the cup mouth edges were put, up to round bruises that are the size of the cup mouth. The marks are large and deeper colored as the time the cups were left on increases. Generally, the marks should be gone in just a few days time.
Chinese Medicine has been around for five thousand years. Cupping is just one of the treatments found in the practice. Along with the Chinese, the Egyptians and Islamic world have a history of cupping that goes back to thousands of years also.
To start out the cups were made from bamboo, horn, clay pottery and bronze. Today the modern cup can be made from glass, plastic and rubber. To make the vacuum, fire and hot water or oil would be used to heat up the cup. This would heat the air inside the cup, expanding the air in it. Then the heated cup would be place on oiled skin, when the air-cooled, a vacuum would be made by the shrinking air inside.
Today, a flame made by a candle or a cotton ball soaked in alcohol heats the cups. Some times alcohol is put in the cup a lit to heat it. A safer way to form a vacuum today is to use a vacuum pump that fits an air valve on top of the cup. The hand pump used, has much more control of the vacuum applied, and no threat of being burned by heat.
The main sections of the body that the cups are used on are the back and stomach. Sometimes the legs and arms will have cups put on them too. The cups made of rubber will conform to the bony parts of the body, but the fleshy parts of the body are generally used the most.
Much of the cupping done today is the dry type. The wet type of cupping is used when some blood loss is wanted. The skin is pierced before the cup is placed on. Under vacuum, a small amount of blood will flow out into the cup. This is used to pull out toxins and bad blood from the body.
The main conditions that cupping is used for are Respiratory conditions like bronchitis, asthma and congestion. Gynecological Disorders, gastrointestinal disorders and pain have been treated successfully also with cupping.
After the treatment, you will have marks left on the cupping areas. These marks can be as little as red rings where the cup mouth edges were put, up to round bruises that are the size of the cup mouth. The marks are large and deeper colored as the time the cups were left on increases. Generally, the marks should be gone in just a few days time.
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