6/14/2006: Traditional Chinese medicine

[Owl]

Originally Posted by Ibram

Chinese medicine will never stop amusing and interesting me.

One traditional chinese procedure is to use extremely powerful suction cups / vacuums on your skin, leaving GIANT round bruises.

Hey there! Yep it's called cupping and it works--well for my gf's asthma, anyway (no, not by me--by (don't laugh) Dr. Kong...)

and yes bruises/marks that look much like the Salt-sucker monster from that one Star Trek