Summary

Cupping looks ugly, but it works. And there are no negative side effects other than some cup-shaped hickies on your skin. It's also dirt cheap to administer. That's why modern medicine wants nothing to do with it, of course: where's the money in it?

But naturopathic physicians and especially Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners use cupping all the time.

Original source:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/12/earlyshow/health/main628788.shtml

Details

• Cupping is a form of alternative pain therapy that recently left some curious marks on actress and new mom Gwyneth Paltrow.

• The mystery behind the circular marks on Paltrow's back is solved by Michael Gaeta, president of the Acupuncture Society of New York, who describes the therapy on The Early Show.

• He demonstrates the cupping therapy on the back of one of his patients, who was lying on a treatment table.

• "Cupping therapy is a treatment in which the practitioner creates suction in a cup.

• He says, "Fire cupping uses a flame to create suction in the cup - you'll see a flame in the cup - and then, we'll apply the cup to the body."

• The skin gets sucked up and rises under the cup as blood rushes up.

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