Atlanta Acupuncture
Center
275 Carpenter Drive, Atlanta, GA. 30328
Tel: 404250-9903; E-mail: lihua@aac2000.com
Cupping is a kind of natural therapy
and belongs to needleless acupuncture. It takes a cup as a tool to be put on
certain meridians and acupoints to treat and prevent health problems. The cup
usually is made of bamboo, pottery, glass or plastic. Cupping does not break
the skin, no bleeding, no pain, only feeling suction and getting red or purple
marks, no infection risk, save and effective. In China, thousands years ago,
cupping was used mainly for TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) surgery, for
example, to treat discharge pus when treating sores (skin and external
disease). As time passed, cupping also has been used in treating internal
illness. Like moxibustion, cupping generally is used together with acupuncture.
In clinic, when cupping is used with acupuncture, sometimes requiring making
bleeding with needle and then doing the cupping according to patients according
to patients’ condition. Before doing bleeding cupping method, always require to
discussing with patients.