Everything You Need to Know About Cupping | PRETTY SMART

You might’ve heard about cupping during the 2016 Olympics when multiple Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps revealed mysterious deep-purple, round marks all over his torso. Cupping is an ancestral healing technique used in ancient Egypt and traditional Chinese medicine. that is still used today to relieve muscle pain. 

Suction cups are placed on the body in two different ways: dry cupping has a vacuum effect on the skin and wet cupping involves making small slits in the skin to bleed certain areas.