Cupping Therapy

Bali

With Nurse Nui

Cupping therapy dates back to Roman and Greek times. From there, it spread to most of the world, and today it remains popular as an alternative treatment for a range of ailments. Cupping is also increasingly used by high-performance athletes to aid recovery.

Nui is a registered and experienced Nurse and Midwife. She originally discovered cupping as a treatment that helped her headaches, before deciding to become a qualified cupping therapist.

What is cupping?

The special cups create a vacuum effect, which brings the blood to the surface. This improves circulation and relieves muscle tension.

Wet cupping extracts that blood by puncturing the skin with tiny, painless needles. This added process is believed to have a stronger detoxifying effect. Dry cupping, on the other hand, does not involve needles and therefore does not release any blood.

The specific areas where cupping is applied depend on the client's objectives.

The therapy takes about an hour and includes massaging the relevant areas.

Cupping leaves some suctioning marks on the skin, and these take 1-4 days to fade away completely.

How does cupping therapy work?

Good question, and the short answer is that, although there are many theories, no one can know for sure as there's rarely funding available to study alternative treatments like this. All we know is that it works for many people; the why and how may forever remain a mystery.

Try it, and see for yourself.

Nui offers both wet and dry cupping in her therapy room at Nusa Dua, or she can come to you. She also offers IV Drip therapy and ozone therapy.