Chinese fire cupping therapy will not be covered under Obamacare (8 photos)

Now that’s just nuts.

…All better now, you beautiful again,15 jiao please

Does #8 count as side cleavage?? EEEEEEEWW!!!!!

And this is supposed to cure/treat what?

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) cupping is a method of applying acupressure by creating a vacuum on the patient’s skin. The therapy is used to dispel stagnation—stagnant blood and lymph, thereby improving qi flow—to treat respiratory diseases such as the common cold, pneumonia and bronchitis.

He formerly works in the circus

this stuff does miracles on Lung fever – Pneumonia

do not want!

TCM = Those Crazy Mandarins. providing they are actually Mandarin and not,, let’s say.. Cantonese. A distinguishing feature of the Chinese languages is tonal. Mandarin has four tones and Cantonese has more than four tones. Muahahahha.

People are freaking idiots

What. The. Fuck.

cool, toad skin!

This is essentially the same as sucking the air out of a bottle and letting it stick to your face/lip/tongue. Plus the improvement to blood flow would be pretty profound since there is less outside air pressure squeezing your skin down onto your blood vessels. Why so squeamish?

My biology teacher in high school would do the jar on the forehead if you had a headache…it worked

That’s the strangest looking hedgehog I’ve ever seen.

I’ve tested other remedies on the street corner; hell, why not! As long as there is no hep c on the bottles.

I tried this along with a massage. I ended up with a crushed vertebra