🇵🇭 Philippines · Traditional
Bentosaベントーサ（フィリピンの吸角）
Filipino traditional cupping: a coin and candle on the skin, a glass over them, the flame creating suction, said to 'draw out' lamig (cold).
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Fact sheet
- Origin
- 🇵🇭 Philippines
- Era
- Traditional
- Classification
- Related therapy / Traditional healing system
- Techniques
- Tool / Heat
- Practitioner body parts
- Tool
- Medium
- None
- Clothing
- Clothed
- Setting
- Table
- Also known as
- Ventosa · Filipino cupping
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World Massage Encyclopedia
Related forms and lineages
Related reference entry: Cupping
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