Cupping Therapy is very common in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, also in many massage places.

Cupping leaves signs of a slight burn that go away after a few days.

My experience and views concerning Cupping Therapy. 

I had cupping therapy over hundred times. Usually after scraping therapy. (Routine therapies in traditional Chinese) hospitals)

• The suction creates light burns on the skin that have a circular form.
• It does not have as strong an effect as acupuncture, but I think it may relieve some symptoms, like flu.
• The spots (light burns) on the body are not equal. Some are red-purple. Others show almost nothing. It is not random and is not explained by the technique.)
• I believe that Cupping Therapy diverts inflammation from other body parts to the skin. (The burns "suck out inflammation.")
• The main side-effect is sometimes having an inflammation of the burned area.

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