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Cupping-A Traditional Therapy In Chinese Medicine-Has New Development. The infrared-vacuum cup has been evolved to improve the cupping therapy, a treatment in the traditional Chinese medicine, by the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, northeast China. The new cupping method produces marked curing effect on sciatica with hypertrophic spondylitis and the inflammation of the cervical vertebrate coming next. Clinical statistics collected from 110 patients of sciatica show that the rate of effectiveness is 94.6 percent and the rate of curability is 52.7 percent. Combining the techniques of infrared therapy and vacuum cupping in the traditional Chinese medicine, the improve treatment produces no pain, no side effect and is simple to operate and easy to popularize. Photo by Jiang Keyun