Cupping Therapy
What is Cupping (cupping)?
Cupping therapy, also known as cupping, cupping or cupping, is the process of scratching the skin with the help of a scalpel and vacuuming this area with a heated wide-mouthed cup or mug to draw blood. In dry cupping treatment, only vacuuming is applied to certain points and blood is not extracted through scratching.
How does Cupping Treatment work?
Filling the energy channels in the body with toxins prevents the activities of the body system. These toxins, which intensify especially in spring, are prevented from passing into the blood when the toxins are discharged with cupping therapy cupping. Thus, toxins that affect many systems, especially the circulatory system, and cause irregular functioning of the relevant organs are eliminated.
How is Cupping Treatment done?
An ignited stick is inserted into a mug or cup and heated. A vacuum is created by removing the oxygen in it and quickly closing it to the designated point on the skin and cooling the cup. In another method, the cup closed to the skin is vacuumed from the outside. In both methods, the blood flow in the capillaries is collected in the targeted area and the blood rushes to the area where the air pressure decreases. The goal of both methods is to provide microcirculation in the subcutaneous tissue and thus help the circulation to become more regular.
Which parts of the body is cupping performed on?
The areas of cupping treatment are located along the energy channels in the body. It is mostly applied between the two shoulders, on the back, on the back of the head or on the points close to the organ in the body where there is pain or discomfort.
What are the types of cupping therapy?
Cupping (wet cupping): Cupping points are drawn with a scalpel and blood is drawn through a vacuum.
Dry fixed: The cup makes a vacuum in one position without bleeding.
Movable cupping: The cup is slid over the body.
Moxibustion: It is applied by burning dried herbs.
Cupping treatment is applied with acupuncture.
Cupping treatment with medicines: It is applied using ointment or cream.
Who Can Do Cupping Treatment?
Cupping treatment is a kind of minor surgical intervention. As with all treatment methods, it should be determined by the doctor in which people and disorders and how it will be applied.
Which diseases is cupping treatment applied to?
To strengthen the immune system
In pain management
In the treatment of chronic fatigue
Infertility treatment
Prostate and sexual problems
Hormonal disorders
In ovarian diseases
Treatment of obesity
Cleansing from toxins
Treatment of headache and migraine
In high blood pressure and diabetes
Against foot sprains and bruising
Musculoskeletal system diseases (rheumatism, osteoarthritis)
Treatment of circulatory disorders and varicose veins
Digestive system disorders
In respiratory system disorders
In nervous system disorders
What are the benefits of Cupping Therapy?
Cupping, one of the oldest known treatment methods, can be used to treat various diseases. It contributes to the treatment of many ailments such as high blood pressure, circulatory disorders, arthritis, balancing of various body systems, general body and organ cleansing, headache, dizziness.
Are there any side effects of cupping?
Cupping treatment, which should be applied by specialist physicians in ministry-approved places, does not have any significant side effects when applied under the right conditions. In unconscious and incorrect applications, undesirable results such as vascular rupture, infection and skin burns may occur.
Is cupping therapy safe?
Cupping therapy is a Traditional and Complementary Medicine application based on scientific evidence approved by the Ministry of Health. It is a safe treatment if it is applied by specialist physicians and in ministry-approved institutions with an in-depth evaluation specific to the patient and the disease.
In which cases is cupping not applicable?
In patients with thrombosis and clot disease
Active bleeding in any part of the body
Those with wounds or surgical sites that have not yet closed
In patients with decompensated heart disease
Varicose veins
In risky pregnancies (it should also be applied in non-risk pregnancies under careful and expert follow-up)
Cupping Treatment in the World
Academic interest in cupping therapy, which is also supported by modern medicine, has increased rapidly in recent years. Today, positive results are obtained with cupping therapy performed by certified specialist doctors in clinical settings. In recent years, cupping therapy, which has regained the interest it deserves in many geographies, especially in the Western world, is one of the most important methods that traditional medicine has brought to the present day.
History of Cupping Therapy
Cupping has been practiced widely and in many cultures around the world for more than five thousand years. Cupping was first practiced by the Assyrians around 3500 BC using animal horns and bamboo.
The oldest known written document of cupping therapy is Ubi Plethore Ibi Evacua, which describes the practices in ancient Macedonia in 3300 BC. In Egypt, cupping was mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus in 1550 BC. Herodotus (484-425 BC) reported that Egyptian physicians practiced dry and wet cupping. Hippocrates and Galen also used cupping therapy in Babylon and Assyria and their empires, and in China in combination with acupuncture.
Ibn-i Sina mentioned the practice of cupping in his work El Kanun fit Tıp and this valuable work was used in European Universities until the last century. Today, cupping therapy is practiced especially in Northern Europe, America, Australia, India, Africa, Far East and Middle East countries.
