Cupping therapy is one of the medical heritages of the motherland, which has been used for a long time among Han people in China. Ge Hong, a medical scientist in Jin Dynasty, wrote Cupping Health Pavilion for Elbow Backup and Urgent Prescription.
, there is a way to record the angle. The so-called horn method is an external treatment method of sucking abscess with hollowed-out animal horns. In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Dao wrote "The Secret of Outer Taiwan", which also introduced the treatment of cupping with bamboo tube. For example, the article says, "Take a big blue three-fingered bamboo tube, leave one end blank, and the headless bamboo tube is as thin as a sword. Boil the tube several times and then heat it. Press on the ink spot of the cage for a long time. Break the corner with a knife and cook it, and it will be yellow and white. Judging from the above-mentioned angle method and cupping made of green bamboo tube, cupping was popular in Jin and Tang Dynasties in China.