A traditional practice, most notably in traditional medicine, which involves placing cups on the skin to create suction believed to help increase blood flow and promote healing associated with chronic neck and low back pain in the short term (From National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, https://nccih.nih.gov/news/cupping (Accessed 11/5/2018)).
    

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Cupping Therapy

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M0010177: African traditional healer cupping a patient

M0005295: Zulu man making an incision in the shoulder of another, South Africa

M0005297: Drawing of a man cupping the chest and back of another man

M0010164: Two people being cupped in a bath house, from Paracelsus: Opus chyrurgicum, 1565

M0003716: Cupping instrument, pipe and splints