A treatment method recorded in the silk book "Fifty-two Diseases Prescription" in the Western Han Dynasty is called "scorching method", which is considered to be the earliest origin of cupping. Although cupping is very popular in China, it is not unique to us. Cupping therapy is also popular in the west, ancient Greece and Rome. Similar methods have been recorded in other Asian countries, such as India and Japan.

At first, cupping (angle method) was not a treatment, but an operation to remove blood stasis. When the patient has congestion, the doctor will grind the middle of the horn, grind a small mouth at the tip, cover the wound and suck out the congestion, and squeeze it out, which is mostly used for surgical carbuncle.

As for the use of cupping as a treatment method, it was first recorded in Ge Hong's "After Elbow" in Jin Dynasty, and it was also the first time to propose cupping with bamboo pots and pottery pots, which also expanded the role of cupping from the initial treatment of blood stasis to the treatment of colds, rheumatism, abdominal pain and other diseases. But cupping is only a relatively small method at this time, and most people don't like to use cupping to treat their diseases.

The Compendium of Materia Medica in Qing Dynasty made cupping popular among the people, among which cupping was called cupping gas, and the methods and benefits of cupping were recorded and discussed in detail. Since then, cupping has quickly become a popular treatment and health care method for the broad masses of the people.

Now with the continuous progress of materials and technology, cupping has also undergone many changes. Cupping is mostly a gas extraction tank, which directly draws the air out of the tank, without creating negative pressure in the tank with fire, thus avoiding the risk of scalding the body. But this method is not as warm as cupping, which has become a daily preventive and health care therapy, and can be used to treat rheumatism, low back pain, facial paralysis and other diseases.