Hypertension is one of the most common diseases in Indonesia and third leading cause death for all ages (7.4%). defined as blood pressure that exceeds 140/90 mmHg. Management hypertension can be done with pharmacological, non-pharmacological, tertiary complementary approaches. One therapies used cupping. Cupping a cleansing method by removing wind from body through surface skin sucking. This st...

Since ancient times, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM; bǔ chōng yǔ tì dài yī xué) have played an important role in human health and welfare. Many therapeutic approaches in healthcare outside the realm of conventional medicine persist in various parts of the world. There is considerable scientific and commercial potential in CAM, which needs to be explored precisely. Cupping therapy (...

A new method to reconstruct data acquired in a local tomography setup is proposed. This method uses an initial reconstruction and refines it by correcting the low-frequency artifacts, known as the cupping effect. A basis of Gaussian functions is used to correct the initial reconstruction. The coefficients of this basis are found by optimizing iteratively a fidelity term under the constraint of ...

background: perineal pain is a major morbidity in the first few days after delivery. this study aimed to investigate the effect of dry cupping therapy and acupressure at bl23 point on the intensity of postpartum perineal pain based on the short-form of mcgill pain questionnaire (smpq). methods: the present clinical trial was conducted on 150 subjects in 3 groups of 50  cases. after at least 4-8...