Cupping Therapy and Gua Sha
A special issue of Medicines (ISSN 2305-6320).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2017)
Special Issue Editor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
Interests: acupuncture therapy; gua sha; traditional East Asian medicine; integrative medicine; nonpharmacologic pain strategies for acute care inpatient settings and chronic pain in underserved populations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medicines is an international open access journal of evidence-informed medicine, both conventional medicine and historically traditional medicine based in a modern setting.
This Special Issue focuses on elucidating the evidence and mechanisms of Gua sha and Ba guan, instrument assisted techniques that use press-stroking and vacuum suction (cupping), respectively, for a healing effect. Both techniques are part of traditional East Asian medicine, but also have a history in traditional and early Western medicine.
We welcome papers reporting latest evidence for cupping and Gua sha, as well as manuscripts contextualizing their history, biomechanisms, and clinical application. Topics include, but are not limited to, the keywords listed below.
Dr. Arya Nielsen
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Gua sha, press-stroking
- Ba guan, cupping
- Traditional East Asian medicine
- Traditional Western therapies
- Transitory therapeutic petechiae
- Ferroheme metabolism
- Heme-oxygenase-1
- Anti-inflammatory
- Immune protection
