Embarking on your first cupping therapy session can feel like stepping into the unknown. However, this ancient healing therapy, utilized for years in Traditional Chinese Medicine, offers a unique approach to wellness that countless individuals have lauded for its benefits. If you re preparing for your first cupping therapy appointment, this guide will elucidate what to expect and help put your mind at ease.
Cupping therapy is rooted in the belief that certain health problems can be caused by stagnant blood and poor energy flow throughout your body. To restore this balance, therapists use cups — often made of glass or silicone — to create suction on your skin, encouraging circulation and relieving muscle tension.
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José Adán Silva
MANAGUA, Mar 29 2007 (IPS) – With the support of international cooperation, the Nicaraguan government is preparing to launch an all-out offensive against hunger, as part of an ambitious plan to help the rural poor achieve food sufficiency.
Of the country s 5.4 million people, 46 percent or 2.4 million were living below the official poverty line in 2005. Of that 2.5 million, 1.7 million lived in rural areas, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Orlando Núñez, director of the Zero Hunger Programme to be launched in May by the government of Sandinista President Daniel Ortega, said the initial cost would be 50 million dollars.
The money will partly come from public funds that would have gone towards servicing the foreig…
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 2008 (IPS) – When the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) holds a two-week session beginning next Monday, one of the lingering issues high on the agenda will be the continued under-funding of women s activities at the United Nations.
The primary theme of the two-week CSW session Feb. 25 through March 7 is financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women.
We believe it is impossible to discuss financing for gender equality without discussing the structural mechanisms including within the United Nations system to deliver needed resources to improve women s lives on the ground, said June Zeitlin, executive director of the New York-based Women #39s Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO).
Without a strong…
Brahima Ouédraogo
OUAGADOUGOU, Mar 25 2008 (IPS) – Water is the origin of life I come from Central Africa where we have a lot of water, but it was when I came here that I really understood the meaning of this expression, says Antoinette Dinga Dzongo, the African Development Bank s representative in Burkina Faso, in reference to the need for improved water provision in this West African country.
Now, Burkina Faso has taken a significant step to addressing this problem, launching a national water and sanitation programme at a cost more than a billion dollars.
Encompassing both rural and urban areas, the initiative will provide 17,290 wells and connections to potable water supplies. This should enable 90 percent of the approximately 14 million inhabitants of the nation …
Wambi Michael
MBARARA, Uganda, Jun 28 2011 (IPS) – When the monthly contraceptive injection that Bernadette Asiimwe, a mother of four, got from government health centres in western Uganda was out of stock for weeks, she fell pregnant with her fifth child.
A nurse shows one of the mostly commonly used contraceptives. Credit: Wambi Michael/IPS
By the time Assiimwe decided to pay for the contraceptive and went to Reproductive Health Uganda, a family planning association, she was already four weeks …
Elizabeth Whitman
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 8 2011 (IPS) – Each day, one thousand women die in childbirth and one million people become infected with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including 7,000 cases of HIV. Yet these numbers are preventable, experts insist, when countries possess the resources and willpower to address and deal with them.
Dignitaries and high-level officials gathered this week to discuss reproductive health commodity security (RHCS), or, simply put, ensuring that people have access to essentials of reproductive health including contraceptives and drugs for safer maternal health and childbirth.
Sponsored by the (UNFPA), the underscored the importance of reproductive and sexual health, especially in developing countries, to improve public health …