Cupping therapy
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cupping-therapy-173-7843023
title:
Cupping therapy
text:
Cupping therapy is a form of pseudoscience in which a local suction is created on the skin with the application of heated cups. As alternative medicine it is practiced primarily in Asia but also in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Cupping has been characterized as a pseudoscience and its practice as quackery. Cupping practitioners attempt to use cupping therapy for a wide array of medical conditions including fevers, chronic low back pain, poor appetite, indigestion, high bloo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Pseudoscience whereby suction is applied to the skin
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupping_therapy
date created:
2004-09-22T17:52:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T05:07:28Z
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