A partial vacuum is created in the cup placed on the skin by
either applying a heated cup to the skin allowed it to cool [Fire Cupping], or
by applying a suction device [Suction Cupping] The name “cupping “is referred
to using the cup as a tool for therapeutic purposes.
Cupping practitioner may use a cup made of glass, metal, or
wood [notably bamboo] and burn alcohol, alcohol-soaked cotton, wool, herds.
Paper, or a taper therein. Before or after the burning is complete. The
practitioner applies the cup upside- down to a relatively flat body surface and
leaves it in this position for five to ten minutes.
Cupping also has several forms, the above description relates
to the fire cupping method, also called “Traditional Cupping” Other forms of
cupping `include the air pumping method, in which the air inside the cups is
pumped either manually or by means of a machine [a suction device] for creation
of a vacuum.
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