Cupping for Healing and Cell re-generation
Cupping is an ancient practice that may help one improve their Overall Health and Wellbeing.
You have probably heard of Cupping in Chinese Medicine or seen athletes with purple-reddish looking marks on their bodies and wondered, What the ?!? Cupping is an alternative therapy or pseudoscience method used to enhance wellbeing and health. It has been around for hundreds of years and often traced back to Greek, Egyptian and Chinese origins. Wet cupping or Hijama in Arabic is encouraged by Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) himself.
Dry and Wet Cupping
Nowadays, Cupping is performed as Dry or Wet. Wet cupping is the process of eliminating the toxins out of the body through superficial incisions. These incisions do not hurt and feel like a scratch to your skin by your nail. The incisions fully heal within days or weeks. Dry cupping moves the stagnation at the triggered points to help the blood flow better without extracting the toxic blood from the body.
Benefits of Wet cupping (Hijama) according to Islam
Helps with the following:
Circulatory diseases
blood pressure and infection of the heart muscle
Diseases of the chest and trachea
Headache and pains in the eyes
Pain in the neck and stomach, and rheumatic pain in the muscles
Some diseases of the heart and chest, and pain in the joints
In addition, cupping may offer a unique treatment which may reduce pain, and it generally does not have any side-effects.
Medical benefits
The medical benefits of Hijama According to MASNAD Health Clinic are:
Reduce high blood pressure
Help regulate blood sugar levels for Diabetic Patients
Remove Uric Acid in your blood system for those with Gout and Heavy metals
Helps patients with inflammatory digestive disease such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Assist with joint and musculoskeletal pain by removing stubborn inflammation from the body
Boost fertility
Boosts your immune system
Wet cupping in detail
The practise of Cupping uses Plastic suction cups or horns or glass cups, or bamboo to bring blood flow to surface of the skin, The cups are then removed and small incisions are made within that circular suctioned area. The Cups are then re-applied on the area and unwanted toxins from blood automatically draw out of the skin into the cups. This allows body to get rid of stagnation and waste in blood. This process takes less than 20 minutes.
Things to note before and after Hijama
The purple or red looking marks are not bruises or scars, rather they are an indication of intensity of blood stagnation in that area. These marks disappear within days or weeks.
Does it Hurt? Cupping is not painful, the small incisions are superficial and feel like scratching yourself with your nails. You may feel a little pain or light drowsiness afterwards due to small cuts but the overall benefits outweigh it all.
You must drink a lot of water to flush everything out and help your body heal as your immune system would be working very hard to repair.
Their is limited evidence and research regarding Hijama, though many believe that it helps with cell regeneration and inflammation. People from all over the world have used it hundreds of years ago and they still do to this day, which makes you wonder, Has it been researched enough?
Generally, After cupping the area treated should instantly feel better and you should not experience any extreme pain, rather you may feel lethargic, hungry and thirsty.
So Have you tried Cupping, dry or Wet? Would you try it after everything you have heard. It’s addictive once you do it once and start feeling energised and better, you will want to keep at it and do it every month!!
Please note this article is not medical advice and each individual will need to self assess their situation or circumstances at their own risk.
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