The difference between moxibustion and cupping in terms of efficacy, method and tools are two different treatments. 1. Different treatment diseases: moxibustion can be used to treat symptoms such as cold condensation and blood stagnation, external wind-cold episodes, middle-anxiety cold, meridian paralysis and obstruction, spleen and kidney yang deficiency (deficiency of yang qi in the spleen and kidneys), qi deficiency and subsidence, health care, and so on. Cupping is mainly used for external wind-cold, headache and dizziness, eye swelling and pain, photophobia, wind-cold-dampness paralysis (wind, cold, dampness three evils invade the body resulting in paralysis of the limbs), joint pain, coughing and asthma, abdominal pain, intestinal hollowing and other conditions. 2. Different methods: moxibustion is produced by the heat of moxa to stimulate the body acupuncture points or specific parts of the body, by stimulating the activity of the meridian qi to adjust the body’s physiological function of the disorders, so as to achieve the cure of the treatment method. Cupping is the use of fire, pumping and other methods to generate negative pressure, so that the adsorption of the body surface, resulting in local congestion or stasis, to achieve the therapeutic effect of the therapy. 3. Different tools: moxibustion is made of moxa leaves, moxa sticks, moxa cones of the therapeutic tool. Cupping is a kind of can as a tool, such as bamboo cans, glass cans, pumping cans of treatment. Moxibustion and cupping are both effective treatments in traditional Chinese medicine, and can be treated in regular Chinese medicine hospitals.