Professional Cupping Therapist Certificate Course

Learn about cupping therapy, a traditional Chinese medicine practiced for 3000 years, using cups to apply suction and negative pressure. Move cups to improve blood flow and relieve pain, inflammation.

Trace the history of cupping, tied to traditional medicine across Egypt, the Middle East, India, Greece and Africa, its decline in Europe, and its modern resurgence.

Cupping creates negative pressure to boost local blood circulation and lymph flow, aiding muscle repair and pain relief, while it is believed to stimulate the immune system and remove toxins.

Apply cupping to promote chi and blood flow, draw out pathogens through the skin, and support organ function by boosting local blood, lymph, and defensive chi.

Explore weak cupping techniques and cup types, learn mild suction with plastic vacuum, magnetic, or silicone cups, monitor for faint pink skin and minimal bruising, and adjust suction safely.

Master strong cupping techniques using any cup to target toxins and scar tissue while monitoring suction to prevent bruising or blistering; not for children, elderly, or weak individuals.

Learn splash cupping with plastic, silicone, glass, or bamboo cups, including training for glass or bamboo. Heat cups briefly for 2–5 minutes per area to boost circulation and healing.

Bleeding cupping uses vacuum to extract blood from perforated skin, aiming to reduce pain, inflammation, fever, and blood pressure, while ensuring sterile technique and glass cups for safe reuse.

Explore herbal cupping with bamboo cups soaked in a herbal decoction to deliver active ingredients through the skin, 20 minutes of suction and water cupping to cool fever and inflammation.

Apply medium cupping to achieve moderate suction and darker marks, common for clearing pathogens and easing pain. Select plastic, magnetic, or bamboo cups and monitor for 15–20 minutes.

Moving cupping slides a suctioned cup across the body with oil, using one cup at a time and medium suction to release fascia, ease pain, and move chi and blood.

Perform moxibustion cupping only after proper training, using moxa with light to medium suction, one cup at a time for five minutes to move qi and blood and relieve pain.

Learn needle cupping by using acupuncture needles with cups to bring chi and blood to acupuncture points, aiding colds or flu, with cautions on fainting and bleeding.

Explore cupping sets, including plastic vacuum cups, magnetic cups, twist rotary cups, silicone cups, glass cups, and bamboo cups, and learn their use, suction control, and pros and cons.

Explore cupping safety, highlighting rare adverse effects, trained practitioner requirements, contraindications, infection prevention, and bruising, blister, and fainting risk management.

Identify tennis elbow and golfer's elbow as common lateral and medial elbow pain caused by repetitive motions and injury, and examine cupping techniques for relief from acute to chronic pain.

Perform forearm cupping to treat tennis elbow and elbow arthritis, using weak to strong suction for 10-15 minutes and moving cups up and down the forearm for pain relief.

Explore the common causes of ankle pain, including ligament sprains from twisting, and distinguish lateral and medial ankle sprains and their risks; learn basic prevention and cupping guidance.

Apply medium cupping for 10 to 15 minutes to relieve abdominal bloating, moving gas, food, and waste along the digestive tract with clockwise cupping across central stomach and umbilical region.

Explain diarrhea causes such as stomach flu, food poisoning, food intolerance, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease, then apply medium cupping for 10–15 minutes along the anterior midline.

Describe common cold from a traditional Chinese medicine view, with wind and heat pathogens shaping symptoms, and show cupping approaches—moving cupping and bleeding cupping—for fever and sore throat relief.

Explore common allergies and their symptoms, including runny nose, sneezing, wheezing, cough, and rashes, and learn how moving cupping supports lung health and immune defense for prevention.

Learn how asthma is described in TCM as an inflammatory lung condition with dampness and phlegm hindering qi, and how cupping on sternum and back moves qi to clear phlegm.

Discover Traditional Chinese Medicine approaches to acne, linking excess heat and dampness to inflammation, and learn cupping techniques and locations along the spine to balance yin and yang.

Learn anti-aging cupping to reduce wrinkles by boosting blood flow and nutrients to skin cells, daily, with moving silicone cups and light facial suction promoting collagen.

Explore cupping therapy techniques for neck and shoulder pain, using strong or mild suction for acute or chronic cases, including flash, smoothing, and bleeding cupping for rapid relief.

Explore musculoskeletal chest pain from pectoralis major and deltoid injuries due to weightlifting. Apply cupping with medium to strong suction for 10–15 minutes, moving and flash cupping for acute pain.

Discover how dehydration, fever, and high protein with low fiber contribute to constipation, and learn medium cupping techniques at the umbilicus and spine to promote bowel movement.

Explore cupping for eczema and psoriasis, addressing wind dampness and heat with medium to strong cupping for 10–15 minutes, and moving cupping along the back to remove the pathogen.

Explore how fatigue signals health imbalances and how cupping strengthens organs to boost chi, blood, yin, or yang. Learn organ-emotion links like lung with grief and spleen with overthinking.

Apply cupping for forearm-wrist pain, including carpal tunnel from median nerve compression; use moving cupping for 10–15 minutes with stronger suction for acute pain and milder suction for chronic pain.

Learn to apply cupping for neck and shoulder pain, targeting the trapezius with strong suction for acute pain and mild suction for chronic pain, 10–15 minutes.

Understand infertility, including aging risk, female and male factors, and how hormone imbalance and diet affect fertility, while cupping supports digestion and toxin removal to improve pregnancy chances.

Explore insomnia in traditional Chinese medicine, distinguishing primary and secondary forms and the heart's role, then learn cupping to calm the mind and clear heat in 10–15 minute sessions.

Irregular menstruation indicates body imbalances, including estrogen–progesterone disharmony, influenced by stress, diet, and conditions like PCOS or thyroid issues; cupping helps move chi and blood to regulate menstruation.

Explore how cupping eases knee pain from ligament injuries such as ACL and PCL, arthritis, and uric acid inflammation, by improving circulation, draining inflammatory substances, and targeted application techniques.

Explore lower leg pain causes from walking and improper footwear, and learn cupping techniques for the calf and lower leg with varying suction for acute to chronic pain.

Explore lower back pain from sports, heavy lifting, or desk posture and learn gentle cupping to relieve muscle strain and sciatica inflammation, and support kidney-related lumbar health.

Cupping helps regulate the body to relieve menopausal symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, irritability, and insomnia by targeting kidney essences with medium cupping along the back for 10–15 minutes.

Identify posture-driven neck and shoulder pain and learn how meridian chi and blood flow obstruction contribute to symptoms, plus practical cupping techniques for relief.

Explore how painful menstruation (dysmenorrhea) presents with cramps and related symptoms, and how cupping with medium to strong cupping can regulate menstruation and relieve pain for 10-15 minutes.

Explore anorexia as loss of appetite from infection, stress, chronic disease, and medications. Cupping moves chi and blood to release blockages, soothe the liver, and improve digestion and appetite.

Explore cupping techniques for stretch marks, breaking down scar tissue to improve blood flow and collagen production. Use moving cups with light to medium suction on affected areas.

Identify trapezius-related neck and shoulder pain from stress, and master cupping protocols from weak to strong suction, including flash cupping for cold-related neck pain.

Apply cupping to shoulder joint pain to relieve inflammation from bursitis and tendinitis, break down scarring from rotator cuff injuries, and treat anterior shoulder pain with moving and flash cupping.

Shingles, caused by varicella zoster virus dormant in nerve cells, presents as a unilateral painful rash; cupping aims to clear heat toxin, reduce inflammation, and relieve pain.

Cupping treats sports injuries and pain by activating nerves, releasing endorphins, raising pain thresholds, and guiding acupuncture points using the hand and anatomical landmarks.

Explore how cupping treats various conditions by restoring balance, removing pathogens, and supporting lymphatic drainage. Cellulite treatment is discussed with moving cupping, suction levels, and duration.

Apply cupping to the front, back, and sides of the thigh to treat quadriceps and hamstrings pain, using 10 to 15 minutes with moving and flash cupping for acute pain.

Explore cupping therapy techniques for upper back and scapular pain, addressing postural strain, stress, and trauma, while applying moving, bleeding, and flash cupping with varying suction for relief.

Learn to apply cupping for neck and shoulder pain with 10–15 minutes of medium to strong suction, moving cupping, flesh cupping, and stronger suction for acute or chronic pain.