Users' Guide to Mengshi Cups

How to use the Mengshi cups for cupping therapy?

1) Before doing cupping therapy with Mengshi cup please make sure the inside of the cup is clean and the grip is completely unfastened.

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 screw the grip with another until the cup sucks on the skin.

3) Screw or unscrew the grip of the cup to adjust the pressure inside the cup.

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 unscrew the cup 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.

How to keep the Mengshi cups for next use?

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 away from your computer, TV, watch, radio, master card, IC card or anything that is easy to be magnetized.

3) Apply some grease to the screwing part of the grip each month.

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.