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How we perceive time affects how fast we heal after a cut or bruising
July 26, 2024
And that’s just the beginning. In a first-of-its-kind experiment, psychology professor Ellen Langer from Harvard University and her team used what’s called cupping therapy to test their theory. Cupping — which has been used for thousands of years in China and ancient Egypt to treat diseases, pain, and more — employs the placing of glass cups on various parts of the body. When the rim of each cup is in position, the vacuum “sucks” the skin into the cup, breaking the capillaries in the area and causing a blood blister that sometimes lasts several hours, manifesting as a red mark on the skin. The object of the experiment: to see how quickly participants would recover from this controlled “injury”; they were given 28 minutes.
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