Precaution of cupping therapy [1]

1. To choose primary points and secondary points according to symptoms and syndromes, in general, 2 to 3 areas are suitable.
2. to make proper posture, clean skin and make it dry, sterilize skin when needling or bleeding cupping is used.
3. to have quiet and warming environment.
4. to inquire cupping response of patient, carefully observe skin change, withdraw cup if patient feels very tense and pain or other comfortable sensations.
5. if patient is over-fatigue, hungery or drinks too much alcohol, we should ask for patient to take rest or eat something, then apply cupping with gentle manipulation.
6. to be careful of not burning patient when we use fire cupping.
7. we can finger-press, circularly knead points such as Fengchi (GB20) [3], Tai Yang, Hegu (LI4) Yuan-Source Point [4] or Lieque (LU7)Luo-Connecting Point the Eight Confluent Point [5] because cupping is not easily done on these points.