Medicinal cupping in the eyes of graph theory

Authors

  • N.M Hanafi Centre for Mathematical Sciences, College of Computing and Applied Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300 Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
  • Y. Yusof Centre for Mathematical Sciences, College of Computing and Applied Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300 Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
  • M.S. Mohamad Centre for Mathematical Sciences, College of Computing and Applied Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300 Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
  • M.F.A Bakar Motorola Solutions Malaysia Sdn. Bhd, 2A Medan Bayan Lepas, Bayan Lepas Innoplex, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
  • M.A. Ibrahim Pusat Bekam Al-Yakin, Kampung Damak, 27030 Damak, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15282/daam.v1i01.5325

Keywords:

Medicinal cupping; nerve graph; nerve vertex; nerve edges; graph

Abstract

Medicinal cupping is one of the traditional treatment methods that is trusted to give many benefits to the human health and still practising by various culture and societies around the world. The purposes of this treatment are to allow the toxin leaves the body,to stimulate the muscles and also helping in healing process for various diseases. The process start by placing special heated cups on specific points to create suction, then the points will be punctured. Each disease has specific cupping points to be cupped which located on the human nerves system. All the points actually connected to each other where a simple graph can be formed. Since there are limited studies that discuss medicinal cupping in a mathematics view, thus this research is conducted to introduce the easiest way  on demonstrating the cupping points on the human nerves system by using the idea of graph. Hence, new definition of nerve vertex, nerve edge and nerve graph will be defined. Moreover, the idea of graph colouring will be applied to determine the optimal number of cupping points.

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2020-12-26 — Updated on 2022-07-04

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