Cupping therapy is an ancient form of alternative medicine involving the placement of special cups on your skin for a few minutes to create suction. It’s known to provide help with pain, inflammation and blood flow, promote relaxation and well-being, and offer a type of deep-tissue massage.
One of the ways cupping therapy can assist is by stretching the tissues to reduce stiffness and ease pain. Cupping can reduce inflammation and provide relief from overall chronic pain, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, allergies, asthma and stress.
Even by eating the cleanest diet, cupping therapy will promote more detoxification as it is right at the level of the skin and blood supply. Immediately carrying unwanted toxins out of the body via the blood stream and circulatory system.
Cupping therapy helps with inflammation by improving circulation to the affected muscle groups. As the blood flows in new vessels are created to bring healing oxygen and nutrients to the inflamed areas.
Cupping therapy reduces fluid build-up and sloughs off dead skin to not only rid the body of that lumpy, bumpy surface layer of cellulite but will also reveal smoother, younger-looking skin.
Cupping therapy boosts the immune system’s response to promote faster overall healing and is particularly effective at helping to dislodge and drain mucus and phlegm from the sinuses and upper respiratory tract.
The Mayo Clinic reports that back pain is one of the most common health problems for people today. Science Direct published a study results that indicate cupping therapy is an effective means to treat chronic pain, including back neck and migraine pain.