I have been offered suction as a solution to approximately seven different problems this year. I have accepted it as a solution to none of them. There was the cupping session — "genuinely transformative," per a colleague — which left marks for eleven days, cost £65, and transformed only my opinion of the word transformative. There was the facial tool, the lymphatic drainage, the cold plunge. I have been offered a Gua Sha stone twice, and the second time I said yes to make it stop.
The Sucking Sweet is £52 and also has suction. I was not, in principle, interested in more suction. And yet. It arrived in a small box. No booklet about meridians. No disclaimer about individual results. A remote — which was unexpected, and in the box, not £18 extra — and a card explaining the sixty-day guarantee.
I used it. It worked. Not in the eleven-days-with-marks way. In the immediate, no-caveats, actually-does-what-it-says way that £65 of cupping emphatically did not.
