{"id":3280,"date":"2026-04-27T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taichi.al\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:43:50","slug":"cosa-mi-ha-insegnato-una-nonna-albanese-sulla-coppettazione","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taichi.al\/it\/2026\/04\/27\/what-albanian-grandmother-taught-me-about-cupping\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosa Mi Ha Insegnato una Nonna Albanese sulla Coppettazione"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3280\" class=\"elementor elementor-3280\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;ha_cmc_init_switcher&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2c76d3 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b2c76d3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-531796b exad-sticky-section-no exad-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"531796b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n\/* Minimal styling \u2014 let the theme handle fonts, sizing, and colors *\/\n\n.tag-line {\n  font-size: 0.9em;\n  color: #888;\n  margin-bottom: 0.5em;\n  letter-spacing: 0.3px;\n}\n\n.subtitle {\n  font-style: italic;\n  color: #5A4A40;\n  margin-bottom: 0.5em;\n}\n\n.byline {\n  color: #888;\n  margin-bottom: 2em;\n  padding-bottom: 1em;\n  border-bottom: 1px solid #f0f0f0;\n}\n\n.divider {\n  text-align: center;\n  font-size: 1.5em;\n  color: #E8177A;\n  margin: 2em 0;\n  letter-spacing: 1rem;\n  opacity: 0.5;\n}\n\n.highlight-box {\n  background: #FDE8F2;\n  border-left: 4px solid #E8177A;\n  padding: 1.2em 1.5em;\n  margin: 1.5em 0;\n}\n\n.highlight-box-label {\n  font-size: 0.8em;\n  text-transform: uppercase;\n  letter-spacing: 1px;\n  color: #E8177A;\n  font-weight: 700;\n  margin-bottom: 0.5em;\n}\n\n.cta-box {\n  background: #049A43;\n  color: #ffffff;\n  padding: 1.5em;\n  text-align: center;\n  margin: 2em 0 0;\n  border-radius: 4px;\n}\n\n.cta-box p {\n  margin: 0 0 1em;\n  color: #ffffff;\n}\n\n.cta-btn {\n  display: inline-block;\n  background: #E8177A;\n  color: #ffffff !important;\n  font-weight: 700;\n  letter-spacing: 1px;\n  text-transform: uppercase;\n  padding: 0.8em 2em;\n  text-decoration: none;\n  border-radius: 4px;\n}\n\n.cta-btn:hover {\n  background: #c01266;\n}\n\n.cta-info {\n  display: block;\n  margin-top: 0.8em;\n  font-size: 0.9em;\n  opacity: 0.85;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<p class=\"tag-line\">Una Lettera dallo Studio \u00b7 Yang Wang<\/p>\n\n<h1>Cosa Mi Ha Insegnato una Nonna Albanese sulla Coppettazione<\/h1>\n\n<p class=\"subtitle\">Una riflessione personale su tradizione, memoria e ci\u00f2 che \u00e8 sempre stato casa.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"byline\">Di Yang Wang \u00b7 Chinese Massage \u2013 Tai Chi Tirana<\/p>\n\n<p>Era un tranquillo mercoled\u00ec pomeriggio allo studio quando me ne accorsi per la prima volta.<\/p>\n\n<p>Una cliente \u2014 un'insegnante di Tirana, sui cinquant'anni \u2014 era sdraiata sul lettino dopo la sua seduta di coppettazione. I segni erano di quel tipo viola scuro, quelli che compaiono su un corpo che ha portato tensione per troppo tempo. Li guard\u00f2 nello specchio e rise.<\/p>\n\n<p>Poi disse qualcosa che mi ferm\u00f2.<\/p>\n\n<p>\"Mia nonna lo faceva per noi. Con le coppette di vetro. Al villaggio.\"<\/p>\n\n<p>In Cina, da dove vengo, questo non avrebbe sorpreso nessuno. Ogni nonna cinese conosce il \u62d4\u7f50 \u2014 <em>ba guan<\/em>\"tirare le coppette\". Ma quando sono arrivata in Albania nel 2020, avevo pensato di portare qualcosa di nuovo. Qualcosa di estraneo. Un dono cinese a un paese curioso.<\/p>\n\n<p>Quel pomeriggio, iniziai a fare domande.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"divider\">\u262f<\/div>\n\n<h2>Ho Iniziato a Chiedere a Tutti<\/h2>\n\n<p>Nelle settimane successive, chiesi a tutti. Ai miei clienti. Ai miei vicini su Rruga Astrit Sulejman Balluku. All'uomo del banco della frutta. Alla donna che gestisce il qebaptore all'angolo.<\/p>\n\n<p>La risposta era quasi sempre la stessa. <em>\"Ah s\u00ec \u2014 kupa. O ventuza. Mia nonna. Mia zia. Al villaggio.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">In nearly every Albanian family, somewhere, there was a memory. Someone's <em>n\u00ebn\u00eb<\/em> who would warm a glass cup over a candle and place it on a sore back. Always glass cups. Always at home. Always with the same purpose: to pull the badness out of the body.<\/p>\n\n<p>Ma ecco la cosa che mi confondeva.<\/p>\n\n<p>Nei villaggi, la pratica era viva \u2014 in silenzio, nelle cucine, dalle nonne. A Tirana, a Durazzo, a Scutari, quasi nessuno la faceva pi\u00f9. La gente ne parlava come si parla di una vecchia ricetta \u2014 con affetto, ma con una piccola distanza.<\/p>\n\n<p>In Cina, la coppettazione non \u00e8 mai scomparsa. Ogni quartiere ha qualcuno che la pratica. Allora perch\u00e9, in Albania, era diventata \"una cosa da nonne\"? Perch\u00e9 le citt\u00e0 avevano lasciato andare qualcosa che i villaggi avevano conservato cos\u00ec attentamente?<\/p>\n\n<h2>Quello Che Ho Scoperto Quella Sera<\/h2>\n\n<p>Non sono una storica. Sono una praticante. Ma quella domanda rimase con me, e un marted\u00ec sera mi sedetti con il mio computer, preparai una tazza di t\u00e8 e iniziai a leggere.<\/p>\n\n<p>Quello che trovai mi sorprese pi\u00f9 di qualsiasi cosa mi avesse mai detto un cliente.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Ippocrate<\/h4>\n\n<p>La prima sorpresa fu Ippocrate di Kos \u2014 nato intorno al 460 a.C., il \"padre della medicina\". Praticava la coppettazione. Non come curiosit\u00e0. Non come medicina popolare. Come uno dei suoi strumenti principali. La usava per mal di schiena, dolori al collo, problemi polmonari, dolori mestruali \u2014 le stesse cose che tratto nelle mie sedute oggi.<\/p>\n\n<p>Mi sedetti l\u00ec con il mio t\u00e8, pensando: <em>Ippocrate? Il greco? La Grecia non \u00e8 lontana da Tirana. Puoi arrivarci in auto in poche ore.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<h4>Galeno e una Strada Romana Attraverso l'Illirico<\/h4>\n\n<p>Galeno di Pergamo (129\u2013200 d.C.) fu il medico pi\u00f9 influente nella storia europea prima del Rinascimento. Cur\u00f2 imperatori romani. Fu un praticante appassionato di coppettazione e salasso. Critic\u00f2 persino pubblicamente altri medici che non praticavano abbastanza la coppettazione.<\/p>\n\n<p>Ed ecco cosa non avevo capito: l'Impero Romano raggiunse l'Albania. La provincia si chiamava Illirico. I medici romani formati nei metodi di Galeno percorrevano le stesse strade che percorro io ora. Applicavano le coppette ai pazienti nelle stesse citt\u00e0 dove le nonne dei miei clienti \u2014 secoli dopo \u2014 le avrebbero applicate ai loro nipoti.<\/p>\n\n<p>La tradizione non era venuta da altrove. Era sempre stata qui.<\/p>\n\n<h4>La Rivelazione del Barbiere<\/h4>\n\n<p>La terza sorpresa \u00e8 quella di cui continuo a parlare a tutti.<\/p>\n\n<p>Nell'Europa medievale, la coppettazione e il salasso si trasferirono nei monasteri. I monaci li praticarono per secoli \u2014 fino al 1163, quando un concilio della Chiesa decise che i sacerdoti non dovevano far uscire sangue. Cos\u00ec la pratica pass\u00f2 ai barbieri.<\/p>\n\n<p>Per i successivi seicento anni, i barbieri in tutta Europa non tagliavano solo i capelli. Estraevano denti. Applicavano coppette ai pazienti. Facevano salassi. Erano conosciuti come <strong>barbieri-chirurghi.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"highlight-box\">\n<div class=\"highlight-box-label\">Il Simbolo Nascosto<\/div>\n<p>Quando un barbiere-chirurgo medievale eseguiva un salasso, dava al paziente un bastone di legno da stringere. Dopo la procedura, le bende bianche macchiate di sangue venivano appese fuori dalla bottega ad asciugare. Stoffa bianca, macchiata di rosso, che si attorcigliava nel vento.<\/p>\n<p>Alla fine un simbolo dipinto sostitu\u00ec le bende. Un palo di legno. A strisce rosse e bianche.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quel segno non \u00e8 mai scomparso.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Voglio che ogni albanese che legge questo faccia qualcosa per me.<\/p>\n\n<p>La prossima volta che camminate per Tirana \u2014 o Durazzo, Scutari, Kor\u00e7a \u2014 contate le barberie. Guardate i pali rossi e bianchi che girano fuori di esse. Ognuno di essi \u00e8 una pubblicit\u00e0 di 900 anni per la coppettazione e il salasso. Abbiamo semplicemente smesso di vederlo.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Cinquecento Anni di Hijama<\/h4>\n\n<p>Per cinque secoli e mezzo \u2014 dal 1385 al 1912 \u2014 l'Albania faceva parte dell'Impero Ottomano. La medicina ottomana aveva una profonda tradizione di coppettazione, chiamata <em>hijama<\/em>. Il chirurgo turco \u015eerefeddin Sabuncuo\u011flu scrisse in dettaglio su di essa nel XV secolo. Le sue tecniche erano praticate in ogni grande citt\u00e0 ottomana. Tirana. Scutari. Berat. Argirocastro.<\/p>\n\n<p>Quindi quando una nonna albanese scaldava una coppetta di vetro e la posizionava sulla schiena di suo nipote nel 1962, stava facendo qualcosa che sua nonna aveva imparato da sua nonna, in una linea ininterrotta che risaliva attraverso l' <em>hijama<\/em>ottomana, la medicina bizantina, i medici romani, Galeno e Ippocrate.<\/p>\n\n<p>Duemilacinquecento anni di pratica. Su questo suolo.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sono arrivata qui nel 2020 pensando di portare un dono cinese. Mi sbagliavo. Stavo riportando qualcosa che era sempre stato casa.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"divider\">\u262f<\/div>\n\n<h2>Quello Che Voglio Che Sappiate<\/h2>\n\n<p>Questo \u00e8 ci\u00f2 che amo di pi\u00f9 dell'Albania, e uno dei motivi per cui sono rimasta.<\/p>\n\n<p>Il paese \u00e8 generoso in un modo che mi ha sorpreso quando sono arrivata per la prima volta. <em>Mikpritja<\/em> \u2014 l'accoglienza che si d\u00e0 a un ospite \u2014 \u00e8 reale qui. La gente mi ha offerto cibo prima di conoscere il mio nome. Amicizia prima che l'avessi meritata. Mi hanno insegnato l'albanese ripetendo le parole con pazienza, come avrebbe fatto mia nonna nel Liaoning con un bambino.<\/p>\n\n<p>Ma ci\u00f2 che non mi aspettavo era che l'Albania avrebbe accolto anche il mio lavoro in questo modo \u2014 come qualcosa di familiare. Non strano. Non estraneo. Come qualcosa che si adattava.<\/p>\n\n<p>Quando mi siedo con un cliente allo studio e posiziono le coppette, non sto introducendo nulla di nuovo. Sto continuando una conversazione tra i corpi albanesi e queste tecniche che \u00e8 iniziata quando i romani costruirono la loro strada attraverso l'Illirico. Le nonne non sbagliavano a farlo. Le citt\u00e0 non sbagliano a tornarci.<\/p>\n\n<p>E non sono io quella che l'ha portato. Sono quella che per caso conosce la sua forma cinese moderna \u2014 la teoria dei meridiani, la precisione diagnostica, l'attrezzatura pulita \u2014 e sono grata, ogni giorno, che l'Albania mi abbia accolto per riportare questa forma a casa.<\/p>\n\n<p>Se vostra nonna faceva <em>kupa<\/em> al villaggio \u2014 s\u00ec, questa \u00e8 la stessa cosa.<\/p>\n\n<p>Se avete sempre pensato alla coppettazione come qualcosa di esotico dalla Cina \u2014 s\u00ec, \u00e8 anche greca, romana, ottomana e albanese.<\/p>\n\n<p>Se avete un collo rigido dopo troppe ore davanti allo schermo \u2014 beh, Ippocrate avrebbe saputo cosa fare. Anche vostra nonna. Anch'io.<\/p>\n\n<p>Venite a trovarci, su Rruga Astrit Sulejman Balluku. La tradizione \u00e8 pi\u00f9 antica dell'edificio. Ed \u00e8 vostra.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cta-box\">\n<p><strong>Continua la Tradizione<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prenota una seduta di coppettazione al Chinese Massage \u2013 Tai Chi Tirana<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taichi.al\/it\/prenota-ora\/\" class=\"cta-btn\">Prenota ora<\/a>\n<span class=\"cta-info\">Oppure chiama: 068 541 4141<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Letter from the Studio \u00b7 Yang Wang What an Albanian Grandmother Taught Me About Cupping A personal reflection on tradition, memory, and what has always been home. By Yang Wang \u00b7 Chinese Massage \u2013 Tai Chi Tirana It was a quiet Wednesday afternoon at the studio when I first noticed. A client \u2014 a teacher from Tirana, in her fifties \u2014 was lying on the table after her cupping session. The marks were that deep purple kind, the ones that show up on a body that has been carrying tension for too long. She looked at them in the mirror and laughed. Then she said something that stopped me. &#8220;My grandmother used to do this for us. With glass cups. In the village.&#8221; In China, where I am from, this would not have surprised anyone. Every Chinese grandmother knows about \u62d4\u7f50 \u2014 ba guan, &#8220;pulling cups&#8221;. But when I came to Albania in 2020, I had assumed I was bringing something new. Something foreign. A Chinese gift to a curious country. That afternoon, I started asking questions. \u262f I Started Asking Everyone In the weeks that followed, I asked everyone. My clients. My neighbors on Rruga Astrit Sulejman Balluku. The man at the fruit stand. The woman who runs the qebaptore around the corner. The answer was almost always the same. &#8220;Ah yes \u2014 kupa. Or ventuza. My grandmother. My aunt. In the village.&#8221; In nearly every Albanian family, somewhere, there was a memory. Someone&#8217;s n\u00ebn\u00eb who would warm a glass cup over a candle and place it on a sore back. Always glass cups. Always at home. Always with the same purpose: to pull the badness out of the body. But here was the thing that puzzled me. In the villages, the practice was alive \u2014 quietly, in kitchens, by grandmothers. In Tirana, in Durr\u00ebs, in Shkod\u00ebr, almost no one was doing it anymore. People spoke about it the way you might speak about an old recipe \u2014 with affection, but with a small distance. In China, cupping has never gone away. Every neighborhood has someone who does it. So why, in Albania, had it become a &#8220;grandmother&#8217;s thing&#8221;? Why had the cities let go of something the villages had so carefully kept? What I Found That Night I am not a historian. I am a practitioner. But that question stayed with me, and one Tuesday night I sat down with my computer, made a cup of tea, and started reading. What I found surprised me more than anything any client had ever told me. Hippocrates The first surprise was Hippocrates of Kos \u2014 born around 460 BC, the &#8220;father of medicine&#8221;. He practiced cupping. Not as a curiosity. Not as folk medicine. As one of his main tools. He used it for back pain, neck pain, lung problems, period pain \u2014 the same things I treat in sessions today. I sat there with my tea, thinking: Hippocrates? The Greek? Greece is not far from Tirana. You can drive there in a few hours. Galen, and a Roman Road Through Illyricum Galen of Pergamon (129\u2013200 AD) was the most influential doctor in European history before the Renaissance. He treated Roman emperors. He was a passionate practitioner of cupping and bloodletting. He even publicly criticized other doctors who did not practice cupping enough. And here is what I had not understood: the Roman Empire reached Albania. The province was called Illyricum. Roman doctors trained in Galen&#8217;s methods walked the same roads I walk now. They cupped patients in the same towns where my clients&#8217; grandmothers \u2014 centuries later \u2014 would cup their grandchildren. The tradition had not come from somewhere else. It had been here. The Barbershop Revelation The third surprise is the one I keep telling everyone about. In medieval Europe, cupping and bloodletting moved into the monasteries. Monks performed them for centuries \u2014 until 1163, when a Church council decided priests should not be drawing blood. So the practice moved to the barbers. For the next six hundred years, barbers across Europe did not just cut hair. They pulled teeth. They cupped patients. They drew blood. They were known as barber-surgeons. The Hidden Symbol When a medieval barber-surgeon performed a bloodletting, he gave the patient a wooden stick to grip. After the procedure, the bloody white bandages were hung outside the shop to dry. White cloth, stained red, twisting in the wind. Eventually a painted symbol replaced the bandages. A wooden pole. Striped red and white. That sign never disappeared. I want every Albanian reading this to do something for me. The next time you walk through Tirana \u2014 or Durr\u00ebs, or Shkod\u00ebr, or Kor\u00e7\u00eb \u2014 count the barbershops. Look at the spinning red-and-white poles outside them. Every single one is a 900-year-old advertisement for cupping and bloodletting. We just stopped seeing it. Five Hundred Years of Hijama For five and a half centuries \u2014 from 1385 to 1912 \u2014 Albania was part of the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman medicine had a deep tradition of cupping, called hijama. The Turkish surgeon \u015eerefeddin Sabuncuo\u011flu wrote in detail about it in the fifteenth century. His techniques were practiced in every major Ottoman city. Tirana. Shkod\u00ebr. Berat. Gjirokast\u00ebr. So when an Albanian grandmother heated a glass cup and placed it on her grandchild&#8217;s back in 1962, she was doing something her own grandmother had learned from her own grandmother, in an unbroken line going back through Ottoman hijama, Byzantine medicine, Roman doctors, Galen, and Hippocrates. Two and a half thousand years of practice. On this soil. I came here in 2020 thinking I was bringing a Chinese gift. I was wrong. I was returning something that had been home all along. \u262f What I Want You to Know This is what I love most about Albania, and one of the reasons I have stayed. The country is generous in a way that surprised me when I first arrived. Mikpritja \u2014 the welcome you give a guest \u2014 is real here. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taichi.al\/it\/2026\/04\/27\/what-albanian-grandmother-taught-me-about-cupping\/\">LEGGI TUTTO<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What an Albanian Grandmother Taught Me About Cupping - Chinese Massage - Tai Chi Tirana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cupping has been practiced in Albania for 2,500 years\u2014from Hippocrates to your grandmother&#039;s kitchen. 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