Cupping Therapy in Ottawa
Dry Cupping is a painless procedure for encouraging the energy and blood flow into an affected body area to speed up the healing process. A cup is placed over the area and heated to create a vacuum thus drawing the skin into the cup. This draws stagnant blood to the external capillaries, sometimes resulting in minor bruises which disappear within a few days.
History of Dry Cupping
This therapy has been used in China as well as around the world for thousands of years known as ” horn therapy”. At this time the healer would place his lips at a hole in the top of the horn ( a hollowed out cattle horn ) and suck out the air to create a negative pressure. Thes was the healing agent which was welcome in preserving health as well as a remedy for almost every kind of disease.
Dry Cupping is useful for:
- asthma
- bed wetting
- boil/carbuncle
- cellulite
- common cold
- constipation
- cough
- headaches/migraines
- insomnia
- joint pain
- lower back pain
- muscular pain
- sexual problems
- sport injuries
- tiredness, etc
Avoid dry cupping if you have:
- skin allergies
- ulceration
- convulsions
- malignant tumor
- tuberculosis
- mental disease
- hemorrhagic disease
- acute infectious disease
- pregnancy