Posted on 08/11/2016 11:22:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Nothing actually works except FDA approved pharmaceuticals.
Understand?
NOTHING.
Don’t forget it.
There was an article not long ago about a person in china who overdid it with the ‘cupping’ and ended up with horrible disfigurement. The procedure breaks cappilaries in the skin and can cause necrosis.
It’s worked for me! I have a kit to do it to myself, although it’s less effective then having a pro do it.
I hear that cupping also works in sports like football and baseball where high speed projectiles can end up hitting the wrong spots.
For Southerners, it’s about the same as giving yourself a hickey. The process and end result are about the same.
I once had a Chinese therapist do this on me during a massage...if memory serves it took weeks for the marks to fade. I did not notice any extra benefit from it...except that now I am wise enough to say "no thank you" next time...
Cupping? Me and a beautiful woman’s breast...
This’ll get nuked...
Jack Hammer’s been doing this for years - I swear by it.
Great stuff.
Guess they found a new use for the penis pump.
I would argue that although it is possible to randomize the trial participants, it is impossible to conduct a blinded trial. And a blinded trial would be the *only* way to get a true determination of whether this treatment has any therapeutic effect.
When a study intervention cannot be blinded (to both participants and researchers), then the placebo effect becomes very strong. Study participants who know they are receiving the "treatment" and who expect positive benefits from it report that they feel better afterwards, even when they feel no such benefit.
I would say that any relief of muscle pains that the athletes experience is not due to the cupping, but to being distracted from the pain by the sensation of the suction. They could experience distraction from pain by any number of methods. Personally, I would not choose a method that causes sufficient subepidermal capillary breakage to leave visible marks that last a couple days.
I watched a video of Michael Phelps having it done. I think he had 4 or 5 cups on his left shoulder blade and his back. It was really weird looking.
Isn’t Cupping pretty much what Jackie Chan did in the remake of the Karate Kid in the recent Chinese version when Jaden Smith was attacked by the kid bullies?
And yes, I did actually like that version of the movie . . .
Is it like scissoring?
“It is believed to restore the flow of “qi” — the life force.”
Done. It’s crap. Any time you hear about Ancient Chinese Medicine talking about “qi” or “balance” or “energy”, just put it into the “crap” column. Same with India and their seven chakras or whatever those things are.
“...It’s just that demon life that’s got you in Feng shui...”
Apologies to the Rolling Stones.
Pepperoni. It’s the new baloney.
Our pharma-friendly medical practitioners only believe in safe pain relievers, such as Oxycontin. These old cures are too inexpensive and non-addictive.
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