cupping glass

But I question including "banki" (hot cupping glasses applied to the skin in the belief that the suction improves blood circulation) with folk medicine.

"Wet" cupping, a form of bloodletting, was performed by making a slight incision in the skin and drawing blood by applying a heated cupping glass.

A preheated cupping glass would then have been placed over the wound and the cooling action of the air inside would have produced a vacuum capable of sucking the blood out.

"Dry cupping", the placement of a heated cupping glass (without an incision) on a particular area of a patient's body to relieve pain, itching, and other common ailments, was also used.

A Western scholar who visited Moscow in 1986 was instructed in the art of "banki," hot cupping glasses applied to the skin in the belief that the suction improves blood circulation.

The tingling of Tommaso's breath in her ear persisted as she made her way home; though she could see no one around her, she felt eyes at her back, sucking out her secrets like cupping glasses burning against her skin.

It is neatly stocked with gardening tools, writing and painting implements, cupping glasses, an oil cruet, soap boxes, scales, strainers, funnels, vintner's tools, barber's instruments, farrier's tools, locksmith tools - in sum, the world, as a mirror of divine reason, a cabinet of wonders, for princes who had everything.