Naval Cupping
This engaging, animated course will provide 1 CEU credit in the AOM-ACU category, as required by NCBAHM. You will learn and develop valuable and necessary steps in using navel cupping in your practice as an adjunctive acupuncture application.
Naval Cupping: Warms the Uterus/Reproductive Health: Used to dispel cold/dampness in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which is thought to assist with infertility, irregular periods, and cramps.Digestive Support: Stimulates digestive organs to potentially relieve constipation, improve digestion, and reduce abdominal pain.Postpartum Recovery: Helps strengthen the uterus after childbirth.Immune/Metabolism Booster: Some practitioners use it to enhance blood flow and improve energy.
Safe Cupping technique – and contraindications are presented.
Naval Cupping: Warms the Uterus/Reproductive Health: Used to dispel cold/dampness in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which is thought to assist with infertility, irregular periods, and cramps.Digestive Support: Stimulates digestive organs to potentially relieve constipation, improve digestion, and reduce abdominal pain.Postpartum Recovery: Helps strengthen the uterus after childbirth.Immune/Metabolism Booster: Some practitioners use it to enhance blood flow and improve energy.
Safe Cupping technique – and contraindications are presented.
1 CEU Credit/ $40
NCBAHM Approved
Course Objectives
Explore This 1 credit ceu AOM-ACU course presents cupping, discusses the history, explains the effectiveness of navel cupping, and presents cases for practice implementation. The course provides the what, why, how and when of navel cupping. In each sub-topic, this course delves deeper into specific situations to prepare practitioners for a step-by-step approach to ensure safety through patient assessment and proper technique in application.
Use The course content includes hands-on videos showing exactly how to set up and implement navel cupping, safely.
This course helps the learner to navigate the initial screening process of a potential patient to identify the practitioner's ability to adequately treat the patient's concerns with navel cupping.
The learner will be able to identify patient populations whereby navel cupping would be useful.
This course helps the learner to navigate the initial screening process of a potential patient to identify the practitioner's ability to adequately treat the patient's concerns with navel cupping.
The learner will be able to identify patient populations whereby navel cupping would be useful.
Understand 1.
The student must understand that self-care is tantamount to acupuncture safety.
2. The student must understand that patients undergoing care for the treatment of cancer require special care to ensure safety.
3. Patients with a history of lung issues or smoking may have indications for the practitioner to alter needling specific points located above lung structures.
4. Patients with mental disorders must be assessed by the practitioner to determine if the practitioner is equipped and trained to accommodate what this patient population may need.
5. The basics of acupuncture safety are reviewed with real-life examples, and the practitioner will learn and review CNT and other practice standards.
6. A step-by-step guide is presented for practitioners to have ready at their fingertips protocols to do in case of emergency.
2. The student must understand that patients undergoing care for the treatment of cancer require special care to ensure safety.
3. Patients with a history of lung issues or smoking may have indications for the practitioner to alter needling specific points located above lung structures.
4. Patients with mental disorders must be assessed by the practitioner to determine if the practitioner is equipped and trained to accommodate what this patient population may need.
5. The basics of acupuncture safety are reviewed with real-life examples, and the practitioner will learn and review CNT and other practice standards.
6. A step-by-step guide is presented for practitioners to have ready at their fingertips protocols to do in case of emergency.
Course Lessons
Meet the instructor
Carol Goldman DACM, LOm., Dipl. Ac.(NCCAOM), C.P., L.Ac, MS
Carol Goldman is an experienced academic leader, tax-exempt management professional, and clinician whose multidisciplinary career spans higher education, healthcare, nonprofit advocacy, and corporate finance. Since 2018, she has served at the Won Institute of Graduate Studies as Program Director, DEI Chair, CEU Director, Herb Club Director, and Title IX Coordinator, where she oversees academic program design, curriculum development, compliance, and student-success initiatives, while also managing budgets, grants, and the Institute’s international CEU learning platform. She brings additional academic experience from Pacific College of Health and Science, where she advised doctoral candidates, developed coursework, and taught in the T-DAcCHM/DAC program. Carol also contributes to global humanitarian efforts through her long-standing work with the African Human Rights Coalition, supporting finance operations, fund development, and grant-based educational initiatives. Earlier in her career, she held senior tax leadership roles, including Director of Taxation for Amerimar Enterprises and Tax Manager for Ernst & Young, specializing in real estate and tax-exempt organizations. A licensed acupuncturist and former hospital-based clinician, she holds a BS in Accounting, an MS in Counseling Psychology, and a Doctorate in Acupuncture and East Asian Herbal Medicine. Her service includes board roles with the Parkinson’s Foundation (Philadelphia Chapter) and the Acupuncture of Pennsylvania Association.
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