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As in any type of therapy, treatment success is impossible to predetermine in cupping. In one case, a treatment will immediately have good results, but in another case that appears identical based on the symptoms, the course is completely different. This depends on each specific case of disease.

Nevertheless, cupping at the location or the segment associated with the disease is bound to fail if the true disease is located somewhere else completely. If the first treatment shows no improvement, we must consider whether there may be a distant disturbance outside the segment.

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In such a case, we must search for the focal disturbance!

Any disease and any location of our body can turn into a focal disturbance. Any local treatment is bound to remain ineffective if we fail to eliminate the cause. This is also a necessary precondition for reducing distant symptoms.

On the living human body, it is not easy to visualize the segments. We have to be intimately familiar with the anatomical relationships to draw specific diagnostic conclusions on the basis of complaints that arise in the segments, which is necessary for therapy. For the quick detection of certain segments, I have found the following simplified clues helpful:

• The noticeably protruding seventh cervical vertebra can serve as the border between the segments C7 and C8.

• The third thoracic vertebra, which is located on the connecting line between the two shoulder ridges, can be considered as the border between the segments T2 and T3.

• The seventh thoracic vertebra, located on the lower connecting line between the two shoulder blades, can serve as the border between the segments T6 and T7.

• The 12th thoracic vertebra, which can be felt as the attachment of the last rib, can be considered as the border between the segments T11 and T12.

• The fourth lumbar vertebra, located on the connecting line between the highest points of both iliac wings, can simultaneously also be considered as the border between the segments L3 and L4.