Cupping Therapy
What is Cupping Therapy?
Cupping therapy is one of the oldest and most effective method of releasing the toxins from body tissue and organs (1)
It is also known as vacuum cupping, hijama cupping, horn treatment etc. It is a practice in which the therapist puts special cups on the skin to create suction. This causes the tissue beneath the cup to be drawn up and swell causing increase in blood flow to affected area. Enhanced blood flow under the cups draws impurities and toxins away from the nearby tissues and organs towards the surface for elimination (2).
Cupping therapy is indicated for both healthy patients (anti ageing treatment, rejuvenation purpose) and those suffering from ailments. Localized ailments that benefit from cupping therapy include a headache, lower back pain, neck pain, and knee pain. Systemic illnesses that have seen benefits with cupping therapy include hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus, mental disorders, heart disease, hypertension, infections. (3) It can be used to treat skin diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal, digestive, reproductive, and allergic conditions,
History
Cupping is a treatment that has been used for a number of ailments for thousands of years. Over the centuries, cupping techniques and styles have often been influenced by their geographical location, as well as by the materials used in that area: animal horns, bamboo, ceramic, glass, metal, and plastic have all been used in this procedure found in Ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Unani, Korean, Tibetan, and Latin American cultures, whose purpose has been to assist the body in self-healing.
Eber's papyrus (1550 BCE) is the first documented instance of this therapy in North Africa. A cup refers to the Egyptian glyph for doctor. According to Ge Hong (281-341 CE), animal horns were used to drain body fluids in Asia during the Jin dynasty. Additionally, it was popular during the Greek Bronze era, when bronze cups were used. (8).
As prescribed by Al-Qanun Fi'l-Tibb, Canon of Medicine (1025 CE), cups are often used to treat conditions related to menstruation in Arabic and Islamic countries. It is reported that Prophet Muhammed used it and advocated its use.
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Types of Cupping
Dry Cupping
Dry Cupping
Cupping therapy is a practice that involves briefly attaching rounded inverted cups to certain parts of the body using a vacuum effect – creating a localized congestion through negative pressure which is mechanized using a pump. This stage allows blood to be drawn to the surface of skin, causing tissues and internal organs to correspond – this stage causes white blood cells to become activated due to the offset of the immune system – this stage refers to dry cupping.
Wet Cupping
Dry Cupping
The next stage refers to wet cupping, where the therapist carries out minuet superficial incisions on the cupped areas, the cups are placed back onto the area where the negative pressure within the cup causes the blood to coagulate and draw out the blood, which is then disposed.
Fire Cupping
Fire Cupping
In fire cupping, glass jars that contain an alcohol-soaked cotton ball are used. The cotton ball is lit up and briefly placed inside the cup to generate negative pressure. The flaming cotton ball is then quickly taken out and the glass jar is applied over body areas targeted for treatment, generating suction. The force of the suction causes fluids, and Blood to move producing a petechiae rash, which in this case, is good.