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L to R Paola Castellanos, Maria Isabel Balbuena and Ramona Incarnacion. Ramona is the Director of the Domination of Origin Committee and is trained as a "cupper". She attended university on a FT Premium scholarship and is an Agronomist.
That's crazy -- I never expected to be #1 in individual changesets, and that's our team at #2 on the team changesets!
finally...I can shoot in RAW format.
funny because THIS is RAW...but not quite bleeding.
Some crazy folklore treatment calling Cupping-- to get the toxins out of my back. I'm fighting some kinda sick, so my acupuncturist suctioned my back...
and gave me the biggest hickeys ever! Hilarious...but it felt good. Thank god it wasn't leeches anyway.
"Don't show your friends that you would want to come here!"
--"ohhh you don't know my friends..."
Another day at school- talk about a new detox program- Chinese Traditional Medicine -cupping -WHAT FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Notice the very light one, second from the left? Casper stopped his roast too early by mistake and the result was a quite under-roasted coffee.
Most commonly, cupping is used for aches and pains of various types.
Bleeding cupping is indicating for blood stasis conditions where pain is sharp and stabbing.
A small amount of blood letting is done first, using a pricking needle, and then the cup is applied over the site.
This technique is said to promote blood circulation, remove stasis, and alleviate swelling and pain.
This is day three of this set of samples so by now one cup each is sufficient since I'm not hunting for defects as intensely as before.
Ray and Jeff. I love this place. I've been trying to make it down here at least once a week, which should be easy enough since there are two cuppings every day.
Oh yeah, apparently Duane just brought back some spittoons from Yemen to use instead of paper cups. I have to say that they are oddly satisfying.