Cupping

Cupping therapy is an ancient form of alternative medicine in which a therapist puts special cups on your skin for a few minutes to create suction. People get it for many purposes, including to help with pain, inflammation, blood flow, relaxation and well-being, and as a type of deep-tissue massage. Cupping is a type of alternative therapy. It involves placing cups on the skin to create suction that facilitate healing with blood flow. A cup is placed on the skin and then heated or suctioned onto the skin. The cup is often heated with fire using alcohol, herbs, or paper that’s placed directly into the cup. The fire source is removed, and the heated cup is placed with the open side directly on your skin.

When the hot cup is placed on your skin, the air inside the cup cools and creates a vacuum that draws the skin and muscle upward into the cup. Your skin may turn red as the blood vessels respond to the change in pressure before the practitioner removes the cup and makes a small incision to draw blood in wet cupping. Any marks usually go away within 10 days of the session.

Cupping is sometimes performed along with acupuncture treatments and to cure many more like shingles, facial paralysis, cough and dyspnea, acne, lumbar disc herniation, cervical spondylosis etc.