Users' Guide to Cups with Pump

How to use the cups for cupping therapy?

1) Before doing cupping therapy with the cup please make sure that the inside of the cup is clean and the exhaust valve at the end of the cup is being pull out.

2) Select an appropriate size or type of the cup, put it on the part of your body where you feel aching pain or the body points with the rim of the cup downward, press it tightly with one hand and put the head of the pistol grip pump over the end of the cup with another hand, then pull the trigger. Screwing the pistol and pull out when the cup sucks on the skin.

3) Arch edge cup is suitalbe for cupping therapy on elbows or joints.

4) The cup can be used singly or in group according to your own situation.

5) Let the cup stay 10-15 minutes each time, once every day or every other day, 7-10 times a course of treatment. Rest for 3-5 days before start another course of treatment.

6) Just pull out the cups slantways when cupping therapy is over.

7) It is normal when blood speckles appear on the skin. It will disappear after a few days.

8) It is normal when blisters appear on the skin where the cup is attached. When it is very serious, routine sterilization may be applied. Prick the blisters and apply gentian violet to prevent them from infection.

9) When cupping therapy is applied, keep the room warm to prevent from catching cold.

10) The magnetic bar inside the cup is removable. It can be put on any sized cup.

How to maintain the cups for safe treatment?

1) Wipe the cup with liquid disinfectant after use. Do not wash it in water. Do not use any caustic liquid to clean the cups.

2) Keep the cups with magnetic bars away from your computer, TV, watch, radio, master card, IC card or anything that is easy to be magnetized.

3) Unscrewing the tube of the pistol grip pump and putting some grease to it after a period of 3 to 6 months.

Who are not suitable for practising cupping therapy?

1) People with serious heart troubles or diseases prone to bleeding.

3) Pregnant women or women in the menstruation period.

4) People suffering from cancers.

5) People with trauma, bone fracture or spasm.

6) Other than that cupping therapy cannot be applied to points where there are ulcers, to blood arteries or places where heart beat can be felt.