Cupping
My patients just love it!
Cupping involves the application of glass cups of different sizes on your body using heat suction.
Typically, three types of cupping are available:
1- Sliding cupping
Involves moving the cups along the oiled-up skin; It feels like a soothing massage, though, instead of pushing into a muscle, cupping gently pulls the muscle back into its relaxed position;
Great for Qi & Blood deficiencies and mild stagnation; areas most often worked on are:
back & neck
calves
thighs
upper arm
2- Standing cupping
Cups are put on specific points to drag out Toxins and move Qi & Blood Stagnation; this technique may leave cup marks that usually disappear after a few days;
3- Flash cupping
is the repeated application and removal of the cup on a specific point within a couple of seconds; that method draws out Cold and soothes associated pain and deficiency