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Medic · Joined: 11 Mar 2003

I have seen this done as part of oriental medicine. Glass cups have been put on peoples backs, and a suction of sorts induced so that marks are left on the persaon's back. Anyone know what this is.

tractor · Joined: 26 Jan 2008

looks fun

fire cupping

ernie · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Location: asdfghjk

that pic almost made me puke... why anyone does this is beyond the realm of logic... in other words, par for the course...

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

You can buy a small set of those at E-mart.

I had an ex-girlfriend who had that done on the side of her neck the week we broke up. I got really angry, and thought she had gotten a hicky (we were coworkers). A mutual Korean friend got a real laugh out of my expression when I said something about it -- she knew what it was actually from.

skconqueror · Joined: 31 Jul 2005

How does this relate to technology? Do they power computers?

Atavistic · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:18 am Post subject:

Actually, I had something very similar done. The woman pricked my skin all over with a needle, then stuck a bell on it and turned on a vacuum. It was supposed to get rid of "bad blood" due to a terrible, terrible soccer thing.

I have really gross pictures from it.

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

I had Mistress Darkness apply some of them to my nutsack after she had bound it up.

I definitely recommended them.

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

I saw a travel documentary about 10 years ago and a guy had this done. He was in a lot of pain at first, then said the massage afterwards was exquisite.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

The ones from E-mart have little nipple things on top for the suction device. How do they suck the air out of these? Heat them somehow?

Atavistic · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:00 am Post subject:

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Reminds me of The Matrix:

Here is an image I grabbed from Google. It shows the same style of pump kit you can get at E-mart:

http://lh3.google.com/lisa.fostertuttle/RzFPY9OK28I/AAAAAAAAAc0/VYyZucY9dYg/%EC%82%AC%EC%A7%84%20109.jpg?imgmax=512

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

I really hurt my back once when I was bathing my daughter. Something near my tail bone snapped. I walked to the hospital hunched over like an old halmoni. I got acupuncture and got needles and a couple of massage suck things applied and straight after that I could walk properly again.

curlygirl · Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Location: Pundang, Seohyeon dong

This practice is as old as the hills and scientifically unproven. I often see women wandering round the sauna with huge red cupping marks. I sneaked a peek at a woman getting it done once. She was making a fair bit of noise and it didn't look like fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_cupping

Ya gotta love alternative therapy eh?