Experts warned about mesotherapy, ozone and cupping treatment, popularly known as cupping.
In recent years, interest in acupuncture, mesotherapy, ozone and cupping treatment, popularly known as cupping, which has been practiced in Anatolia for years, has increased. Against the increasing interest, experts stated that the procedures applied by people who are not qualified in the field under inappropriate conditions threaten the health of citizens.
Experts who warned citizens not to have procedures performed by incompetent people said, “As a result of procedures performed by untrained people in unequipped places, patients face many negativities. We see that there are many people on TV, in newspapers, in the media, promoting that they provide treatment and even that they have their own products. People who introduce themselves as experts, of course, cause great harm to patients.”
“Wrong application causes pain that does not go away”
Pointing out that it is determined whether the patient is suitable for the procedure before the applications to be made, experts said, “Before applying wet cupping, we check whether the patient's blood level is normal, whether his age is appropriate, whether he has psychological readiness to do this, whether his blood pressure drops, whether he has diabetes. Cupping, as it is popularly known, is actually done on acupuncture points and this requires a very long training. It needs to be done very consciously. During the application of wet cupping, some scratches or holes are made on the skin with scalpels or some cutting and piercing tools. If the depth of these cuts and holes is too deep, scar tissue forms on the skin. This scar tissue causes lifelong pain in that patient, perhaps in this area. There is a constant desire to go and have a cupping, but this arises from the mistake made in the first application.”
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