182 pages

  

The Art of Cupping by Hedwig Manz

For over 5000 years, cupping has been used across the globe to treat a broad spectrum of health disorders. A safe, comfortable therapy, it requires only simple, inexpensive instruments to achieve highly effective results. This comprehensive guide features all the information practitioners need, including historical facts, step-by-step instructions for application, and treatment of specific health problems.

Highlights • Detailed theory of dry and wet cupping • Practical instructions for 45 different disorders • Illustrated by real-life photographs from the author’s practice • Compact, user-friendly format for easy reference

Each chapter of the practical section deals with a different area of the body and its disorders. Information on the complaint, the correct cupping application, supplementary and alternative therapies, as well as preventive treatment is given.

Practice-oriented and highly detailed, this is an invaluable reference for experienced practitioners and an ideal learning tool for students.

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Review

"A welcome addition to the [meager] volume of books about this often neglected form of treatment...[The] author makes her guidance easy to adopt with the aid of numerous photographs of cup placement...excellent."--The Lantern

"The Art of Cupping provides a good foundation for the use of dry (bloodless) and wet (bloody) cupping to benefit conditions one is likely to encounter in the clinic ranging from disorders of the head, to cardio vascular disease to obesity and cellulitis. A discussion on technique, types of cups to use, applications for children and the elderly and contraindications of use are all clearly provided.

Each condition includes indispensable biomedical information, which is one of this books features. Again, this book is written in the direction of naturopathy so discussion of how material relates to the Chinese medical explanation and treatment of the same clinical condition is not available. Anyone with an intermediate understanding of TCM will easily be able to translate the treatment protocols within the construct of Chinese medical philosophy.

The Art of Cupping is a concise source of information for the TCM student who is curious of the biomedical explanation of dry and wet cupping on the skin, nervous system and viscera. Hedwig provides useful information to present to patients with or without a medical background and physicians who are looking for an explanation different than ‘eliminates blood stasis’, or ‘moves qi and blood’.

Overall, The Art of Cupping is a valuable book that meets its goals of detailing dry and wet cupping for 45 different disorders assisted by clear illustrations all packed into a quality, practitioner friendly format for easy reference. "

By Scott Smith. Chinese Medicine Times
   

Table of Contents

  • I Introduction and Foundations 1

    1 Historical Background 3

    2 What Do We Mean by "Cupping"? 5

    3 The Therapeutic Conception of Dry Cupping 9

    4 Self-regulatory Mechanisms in the Body - A Crash Course for Patients 18

    II Clinical Applications of Cupping Therapy 31

    5 Dry Cupping 33

    6 Wet Cupping 49

    III Cupping Therapy of Indicated Disorders and Complaints 53

    7 Disorders of the Head 56

    8 Respiratory Tracts 65

    9 Cardiovascular Disease 80

    10 Digestive Organs 87

    11 Locomotor System 104

    12 Reproductive Organs 116

    13 Urinary Tracts 133

    14 Nervous System 138

    15 Venous Disorders 145

    16 Obesity (Adipositas, Overweight) 147

    17 Cellulitis (Adipositas Circurnscripta Oedematosa); Cellulite (Dermatopanniculosis Deformans) 150

    IV Cupping Therapy in Conventional Western Medicine 153

    18 Cupping as Supportive Therapy within Conventional Western Medicine 155

    V Appendix 165

    Conclusion 167

    Further Reading 168

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    About the Author:

    Hedwig Manz learned the benefits of cupping at a young age. It was their mother who taught that it was better to encourage the body to be self-healing rather than rely on outside assistance, such as drugs. Hedwig has a Private Practice in Berlin, Germany. He wrote:

    "I have written this book for practitioners and students of naturopathy who want to be trained in cupping therapy, but also as information for readers without medical training. Because, more than anything, the feeling of well-being in my patients after a cupping treatment has caused curiosity and many questions about this treatment technique, these questions have encouraged me to explain medical technical terms also in the language of laypersons. I thereby give them the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the entirety of this treatment method in the quiet of their home, which is something that I have found impossible to provide my patients during clinic hours due to lack of time."
       

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