The history of cupping is very wide and expansive. Various forms of cupping have been practiced in China for more than 3,000 years as one aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In the West, Egyptians would use cupping therapy to aid in all sorts of illnesses and other various conditions. The Egyptians then passed the techniques of cupping onto the Greeks and Romans who then passed it onto Muslim Arabs and Persians. Since losing popularity in western medicine with the rise of