Open AccessA Preliminary Study of Optimizing Back Pain Medicinal Cupping Points Disease via Graph Colouring
Author(s) -
Nurfatihah Mohamad Hanafi,
Yudariah Mohammad Yusof,
Mimi Mohaffyza Mohamad,
Muhamad Faiz Abu Bakar,
Mohd Adhha Ibrahim
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1366/1/012077
Subject(s) - cupping therapy , graph , complaint , medicine , back pain , computer science , mathematics , alternative medicine , theoretical computer science , pathology , political science , law , acupuncture
Medical cupping is an ancient method that is still used by many people. It is an alternative method in healing process for much type of diseases by using special cups on the specific points of the skin to create suction. Every disease has their specific cupping points. As a habit, practitioners will cup based on patient request or complaint, where it give effect to the cost and time. Thus, the aim of this paper is to study the effective ways on finding the optimum number of cupping points for back pain disease through graph colouring. In addition, a formulation in C# language is given too in validating the graph model result. The finding shows that the optimum number of back pain medicinal cupping points is two.