Acupuncture is an old therapeutic method that includes both needle and nonneedle acupuncture. Nonneedle acupuncture includes moxibustion, cupping, and acupressure. In the field of dermatology, acupuncture has been reported to be beneficial for the treatment of acne, postherpetic neuralgia, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and urticaria. In acupuncture treatment of dermal diseases, both the filifor...

In this paper we will prove that the plus cupping degrees generate a definable ideal on c.e. degrees different from other ones known so far, thus answer a question asked by A. Li and Yang.

Although it has been inferred that alteration of erythrocyte shape causes cell clearance. no direct measure of the effect of varying shape on clearance has been made. In this study, the protein oxidant, diamide, was employed to fix rat erythrocytes in altered shapes produced by the addition of different amphipaths or by changes in membrane structure. Clearance of cells in vivo as measured by 51...

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A novel plasma treatment method/plasma source called cupping-assisted plasma treatment/ source for skin disinfection is introduced. The idea combines ancient Chinese ‘cupping’ technology with plasma sources to generate active plasma inside an isolated, pressurecontrolled chamber attached to the skin. Advantages of lower pressure include reducing the threshold voltage for plasma ignition and imp...

Slit-lamp examination and stereoscopic fundus photography were found to be helpful in differentiating between physiological and glaucomatous cupping of the disc. Vertical ovalness of any cup in the disc should raise the suspicion of glaucoma, and the magnitude of the vertical cup: disc ratio is of particular significance.