Surgery

Cupping glass (07)

In traditional China, the cupping heads were made from horns of horns (cow and antelope horns), and later from bamboo. Bamboo is a mythical material in the Far East - think of Malakas and Maganda, the first human couple to have sprung from a split bamboo according to Philippine mythology.

Patients feel the bamboo tubes completely different than glass bells, which emit less heat, because with them only the air is warmed up. There are a number of differences to the classic glass bells.

- Bamboo cupping heads are not sucked in by mouth, nor with hot air: they are boiled in the herb broth and then put on the skin: this process is therefore called "wet cupping head". Cave burns with the bamboo tubes taken from the hot brew!

- Since the edge of the glass bells is usually worked somewhat beaded, while the lower edge of the bamboo tubes is rather thin, take the bamboo bells on the skin less space, you can therefore accommodate their more in a tight space.

- Bamboo tubes cut a bit because of their narrow rim - the pain that causes them is one of the reasons why bamboo bells are now rather unpopular.

- Another reason for their disappearance from the market is that they can not be reliably sterilized.

- As bamboo tubes cool down more slowly than glass bells, which only heat the air, they adhere more slowly - not to hurried therapists.

Exhibit: 2 bamboo suction pipes, Shanghai 2016.