Dry cupping is an ancient treatment method which uses cups on the skin to create suction. It can be used for many purposes, including help with pain, inflammation, blood flow, muscle tension, myofascial release and to even help treat conditions like frozen shoulder.
Dry cupping therapy, commonly referred to as Cupping, has been around for thousands of years. It developed over time from the original use of hollowed out animal horns (the Horn Method) to treat
boils and suck out the toxins out of snakebites and skin lesions. Horns slowly evolved into bamboo cups, which were eventually replaced by glass. Therapeutic applications evolved with the refinement of the
cup itself, and with the cultures that employed cupping as a health care technique
Some consider the Chinese to be responsible for cupping, however, the earliest pictorial records date back to the ancient Egyptians
around 1500 B.C. Translations of hieroglyphics in the Ebers Papyrus, the oldest medical text book, detail the use of cupping for treating fever, pain, vertigo, menstrual imbalances, weakened appetite and
helping to accelerate the healing crisis.
The Chinese expanded the utilization of cupping to include its use in surgery to divert blood flow from the surgery site. In the 1950’s, after much extensive research, a collaborative effort between the former
Soviet Union and China confirmed the clinical efficacy of cupping therapy. Since then, cupping has become a mainstay of government-sponsored hospitals of Traditional Chinese medicine.
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