Cupping Therapy and Scientific Basics

Year 2022, Volume: 3 Issue: 3, 197 - 200, 15.12.2022

Abdulkadir Kaya , Lale Taşdemir , Yasemin Çayır

https://doi.org/10.53811/ijtcmr.1147126

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Cupping therapy is a traditional and complementary medicine practice that has a history of 5000 years and is used in many societies. One of the 15 complementary medicine methods accepted in the Regulation on Traditional and Complementary Medicine Practices published by the Ministry of Health in Turkey is cupping. In this article, cupping therapy application and studies on cupping therapy will be presented.

Keywords

Cupping therapy, Traditional medicine, Cupping Therapy Studies

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