Cupping is technique using special designed cups as a tool to create negative pressure (using fire or pumping) making it heavily sucked on the surface of body, causing localized blood stasis  to achieve, through the meridians, qi and blood circulation, reduce swelling and pain or eliminate wind and cold, etc.

Cupping therapy has a long history in China as early as documented in a book in the Western Han Dynasty named “52 diseases and its recipe". According to the record, "Horn Method" is similar to the later cupping therapy, and in ancient Greece, cupping therapy was also prevalent at a time.