Cupping, also known as cupping and air inhalation therapy, was called angular therapy in ancient times. This is a kind of therapy with cups and jars as tools, which generates negative pressure by heating the air discharged from them, so that it can be sucked on the skin and cause blood stagnation. Ancient doctors used it to suck blood and expel pus when treating sores and abscesses, and later it was extended to medical diseases such as tuberculosis and rheumatism. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, cupping therapy has made new development, further expanding the scope of treatment and becoming an important therapy in acupuncture treatment.

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.