concept
Cupping (banki)
Cupping
also: банки, cupping-glasses, kровососные банки
A folk-medical practice using heated glass cups applied to the skin to draw blood or relieve internal congestion by suction; performed on Shchiptsov's chest by the theater barber Yevlampy/Rigoletto, typical of amateur provincial medical care.
Reading notes
- An Actor's Doom §50 банок
Cupping (postavit' banki) was a folk-medical practice using heated glass cups applied to the skin to raise blisters or draw blood by suction, believed to relieve internal congestion; performed here by a barber rather than a physician, typical of provincial medical care of the period.