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Cupping therapy Chinese Medicine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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What are the suction cups?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cupping treatment is a\u00a0traditional millenary technique<\/strong>\u00a0which has been practised in the\u00a0Chinese Medicine<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for thousands of years. Despite this association, cupping has been used by\u00a0other cultures from Northern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North America and Asia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you can see, they have been around for quite some time as a therapeutic tool. Suction cups have been made throughout all this time from different materials: bamboo, animal horn, shells, glass and nowadays, of course, plastic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does a cupping treatment look like?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The suction cup or cupping cup works by generating an air vacuum in the area to be treated.<\/strong>There are two ways of generating such a vacuum:<\/p>\n\n\n\n