Cupping Therapy

Cupping therapy, different from common medicine, is a kind of alternative medicine in which a local suction is created on the skin. Suction is created by fire or extrusion method which can cause negative pressure inside the cup. When cup suck in skin, great stimulation to the location skin is created and because of this strong stimulation, temporary bruised painful marks on the skin will be made, but the mark usually fade within several days.

1. Some respiratory system diseases: asthma, pulmonary edema, pneumonia, pleurisy.

2. Some digestive system diseases: indigestion, hyperacidity

3. Some circulatory system diseases: arhythmia and cardiac insufficiency

4. Some nervous system diseases: nervous headache, occipital neuralgia, sciatica and so on.

5. Some locomotor system : backache, Lumbar pain, gonalgia and coxalgia and so on.

6. Some symptoms in gynaecology

7. Some symptoms in surgical sores.

Cupping therapy can be classified into different types on the basis of character of cup type and the cupping type. With different disease and illness condition, patients can choose different kinds of cupping therapy. Besides, although cupping therapy is helpful, it does not mean the longer time the people doing cupping therapy, the better. Mostly, the time depends on patient's illness condition, but usually less than 15 minutes.