From today to the past: the cupping therapy as a form of alternative medicine
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https://doi.org/10.18203/issn.2454-2156.IntJSciRep20211042Keywords:
Cupping therapy, Pain, BurningAbstract
For thousands of years, the cupping therapy usually used as traditional treatment for pain relief and as cure of disease among its main purposes. We described a case of a 76-year-old male patient, who used the cupping therapy to symptomatic relief and home treatment for pneumonia. The patient showed clinical worsening, which lead him to the emergency room with a subsequent favourable clinical evolution after appropriate therapy.
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