15/12/2023
✨ wet cupping ✨
Wet cupping also know as al Hijaama (الحجامة) is a prophetic way of treatment mentioned in prophetic medecine that is adopted by many alternative and traditional medicine around the world
types of cupping we have over 10 different types of cupping as described by the writer of the *Chinese traditional medicine cupping therapy including dry cupping*, wet cupping etc but we want to describe the health benefit of wet cupping and some scientific backing behind it.
*1)at first* we said it is a prophetic medecine we have some ahadith where muslims were encouraged to treat them selves with it. The prophet (saw) practice it like in the hadith where he ask abu tayba to cup him and he paid him with one saa of food, the other he was in state of ihram and had headache so he was cupped to relief the headache etc.
In other narrations ( he said in your treatment modality the best is cupping, honey ,....etc, during isra a d miraj he said he didn't passed by a group of angel except that they were commanding him to command his ummah to use wet cupping (Hijaama). For the sanad of naration and other we can refer our selves to the book of *imam ibnul qayyum the prophetic medecine*
*2) Hijaama* is use to treat physical illnesses, psychological and spiritual but we will only focus on physical ailments
*3) diseases that are treated by Hijaama*
3.1) pain : being it chronic like in rheumatoid arthritis, chronic osteoarthritis, sciatica, migraines headache, chronic non specific back pain etc
or acute like trigeminal neuralgia, brachialgia, herpex zoster, dysmenorrhea(pain due to me**es) etc by helping to release endorphins and endogenous opioids during puncturing that will help relieve pain and by excreting also the inflammatory soup made up of ( inflammatory cytokines, causative agents, WBC)
3.2) infectious diseases like: cellulitis, chronic viral hepatitis etc it does that by helping to excrete the causative agents when mix with correct antibiotics or antiviral, it treats or help to manage the situation
3.3) some skin conditions: such as vitiligo etc
Hypertension, just to name few see the videos to know more
4) *mechanism of action*:it has 3 steps sucking, puncturing and sucking. it work by applying sucking cup on the skin that creat a negative pressure that lead to filtration of blood through the capillaries of the skin to the extra cellular space created. After puncturing a cup is applied for the second time which will help to remove the fluid collected previous and the actual filtrate which is made up of( inflammatory cytokines, some pathogens and RBC AND WBC and other normal blood content if a vein was being punctured during the procedure). So during the application of the cup for the first time lead to ischemia of the skin due to pressure causing the body to produce Nitric oxide and other vasodilators which will increase blood flow during the second sucking process(reactive hyperemia mechanism) and there is release of endorphins and endotheline and other strong pain killers naturally during the process which will help to relieve us from pain. The puncturing of the skin also help to reinforce the immunity and many thousand other benefits.
5) indication and contraindication: it is indicated for every one except some. Doctors said it should not be done on pediatrics population less than 7 years, pregnant women at their first trimester and anaemic patients due to the fact that there is risk of more blood loss again during the process
6: prerequisites: is better to do it with an empty stomach due to the hadith of the prophet saw (Hijaama on an empty stomach is a cure and add intelligence) and scientifically if you eat blood will be concentrated at the level of your gut instead of going to the skin for filtration.
*NB is just a resume of our videos for those who like to read instead of looking video for more information look at the full video in our page the beauty of Islamic messages
Ahmadou Tidjani
