Cupping
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To weigh, with one's hands, someones testicles
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(in Chinese medicine) a therapy in which heated glass cups are applied to the skin along the meridians of the body, creating suction and believed to stimulate the flow of energy.
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when [a women] [touches] a males genitals and [gently] massages his balls.
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to cup a breast/[boob]/[tit] as in [feeling up]
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Cupping (a manipulative and body-based practice) is used in traditional Chinese medicine. Cupping is believed to increase blood flow to the area on which a cup is placed, thereby improving healing in that area.
The air inside a cup is heated, often using a rubber pump in modern practice. The heated cup is immediately inverted and placed on the skin. The resulting vacuum sucks the skin partway into the cup, which may be left in place for several minutes.
Cupping has been used to treat herpes zoster, facial paralysis, acne, cervical spondylosis, respiratory symptoms, and pain.
Cupping will redden and may burn the skin.
(See also Overview of Integrative, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine.) -
present participle of cup
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a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface
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Fire cupping, a traditional therapeutic treatment called in which heated glass cups are applied to the skin, supposedly to draw blood towards the surface.
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the operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess
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