Originally published July 13 2004
Cupping therapy gains popularity as alternative medicine practice
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Cupping is a fantastic procedure for eliminating stagnation and improving bloodflow, especially in the regions of your back. It's an ancient Chinese healing practice that's just now gaining publicity in the United States. 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.
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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