{"id":31,"date":"2026-04-08T05:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/?p=31"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:36:30","slug":"what-to-know-about-cupping-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/what-to-know-about-cupping-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about cupping therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some research suggests cupping may have beneficial effects, including pain relief and increasing local blood flow. However, more research is necessary to understand cupping\u2019s therapeutic potential and how it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cupping therapy is a traditional Chinese and Middle Eastern practice that involves placing cups at certain points on a person\u2019s skin. A practitioner creates suction in the cups, which pulls against the skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cupping can either be dry or wet. Wet cupping involves puncturing the skin before starting the suction, which removes some of the person\u2019s blood during the procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cupping typically leaves round bruises on a person\u2019s skin, where blood vessels burst after exposure to the procedure\u2019s suction effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some research suggests cupping may have beneficial effects, including pain relief and increasing local blood flow. However, more research is necessary to understand cupping\u2019s therapeutic potential and how it works. Cupping therapy is a traditional Chinese and Middle Eastern practice that involves placing cups at certain points on a person\u2019s skin. A practitioner creates suction in the cups, which pulls against the skin. Cupping can&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siddhayu.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}