Yin and Yang Cupping

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In ancient times, animal horns and bamboo jars were used, principally to drain pustulating sores, and poisonous animal bites. At first, the jars or horns were sucked through a small hole created in the end. Later, the devices were boiled in water, or a solution of herbs and applied to the body. Eventually, fire was utilized to remove the air from inside of the vessel to create a deeper suction.

The next step in the evolution of cupping in China was the use of ceramic cupping vessels. In ancient Greece, they were forged out of Bronze.

More recently, the jars have been made mostly out of glass to standard sizes and specifications. Glass jars were the standard worldwide until about 40 years ago, when the plastic cups with a pump were designed. This plastic pump cupping technology made cupping therapy much more accessible to the general public, and may have been the turning point for the popularization of this method worldwide. (especially in the West)

Silicone cups are the most recent cupping devices to come into the cupping scene. They are popular as they are flexible, easy to use, and easy to sanitize.

In this course, we will focus a lot on the use of silicone cups, as I have found that they are the most versatile of all of the cupping vessels. When using silicone cups, one need not worry about fire safety, or all of the challenges involved with glass cups. The flexibility of the silicone cups enables us to move the cups over body areas, and treat in ways that simply were not available to us in the past. It has been my experience that silicone cups have allowed us to take this ancient modality into completely new realms of treatment.

Yin and Yang Cupping

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Cupping Tools

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