{"id":29,"date":"2026-08-29T05:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/2026\/08\/29\/cupping-marks-explained-and-why-they-are-not-bruises\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:09:41","slug":"cupping-marks-explained-and-why-they-are-not-bruises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/2026\/08\/29\/cupping-marks-explained-and-why-they-are-not-bruises\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupping marks explained, and why they are not bruises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The round marks cupping leaves behind look dramatic, but they are not bruises. A bruise comes from impact damage to blood vessels; cupping marks come from suction drawing stagnant blood and fluid up towards the surface, where the body clears it away.<\/p>\n<h2>What the colour tells us<\/h2>\n<p>Pale pink marks that fade in a day suggest good circulation. Darker, purple marks that linger for a week point to long-standing stagnation \u2014 usually in the areas that feel tightest.<\/p>\n<h2>Aftercare<\/h2>\n<p>Keep the area covered and warm, drink plenty of water and skip hot baths for the rest of the day. The marks are painless and fade within three to seven days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The round marks cupping leaves behind look dramatic, but they are not bruises. A bruise comes from impact damage to blood vessels; cupping marks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-treatments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-acupuncture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}