Cupping

• Cupping is an ancient therapy that used to relieve pain through a suction or vacuum force inside the cup that pulls the skin upward.
• Cupping works through drawing the blood away from or to a specific area by using the suction force, which expands and breaks tiny blood vessels under the skin. After that, the body replenishes the cupped areas with healthier blood and triggers normal healing. Due to that, people think that cupping gets rid of toxins from the body.
• Cupping is used to relieve back, neck, shoulder, and knee pain in addition to headaches, and it’s thought that it helps in chronic conditions, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, migraines, arthritis, asthma, high blood pressure, and gastrointestinal issues like irritable bowel syndrome.
• Cupping therapy can be dry, running (by using lotion or oil on the skin), or bleeding (by using a needle to release the blood that holds the toxins).
• Cupping treatment usually involves 3-5 cups, and sometimes 7.

• Make sure that a professional will perform the cupping therapy.
• You can’t have a cup massage in the case of the following conditions: pregnancy, anemia, cardiovascular disease, having a pacemaker, having a bleeding disorder like hemophilia, having a blood clotting disorder like deep vein thrombosis, a history of strokes, seizures or epilepsy, and a skin condition like eczema and psoriasis.

Some people may suffer from:

• Headache.
• Extreme tiredness.
• Bruising.
• Burns.
• Nausea.
• Muscle tension.
• Scarring or itching.
• Skin infections.

• Call your healthcare provider if any problem or weird symptom emerges.
• Cup therapy is recommended to be used as a complementary medicine.