Cupping was used in Mesopotamia as early as 3300 BC, and later in Egypt around 2200 BC. Some 2000 years later, the Greeks and Romans also made use of cupping therapy.
Hippocrates (460-359 BC) used cupping, mainly for treating pain and infections, and in gynecology. His theory was that cupping could be used to draw out disease.
Cupping increases the flow of blood to the skin, without damaging the skin. The body then goes about repairing the bruising that this causes.
My grandmother who died in 2011 at the riped age of 109 years practiced cupping. It was called "Imi mbubo" in my language. She never visited any hospital in her life time. When she turned her back, you will noticed small razor cut lines on her back. It was the various places where the cuppings were placed.
Even as a small kid then, I noticed that the medicine man was invited from a distant land to do the "mbubo" on her. On the process, bad blood was usually drawn out from her body. After the cupping, she gets relieved and recovered. Honestly civilization started from Africa. Let's join hands to protect and preserve African values and heritage. We should stop demonizing our values to embrace western values and heritage. ~Ifeanyi Calistus
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