AlHejamah: Cupping Therapy

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Al-Hejamah Cupping Therapy
A presentation by the British Cupping
Society Sade Hayat Seminar Istanbul June 2009
Kaleem Ullah, Dr. Ahmed Younis, Mohammed Wali,
Dr. Amir Sheikh, Dr. Sirfraz Nazir
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Acknowledgements

• The BCS would like to express its gratitude to
  Sade Hayat for providing the opportunity to
  present at this seminar and establish a good
  relationship with you all.
• The BCS

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Presentation Overview

• Presentation Format
• Introduction to the British Cupping Society
• Introduce Al-Hejamah - Cupping Therapy
• History and Theories of Cupping Therapy
• Literature/Evidence Overview
• Demonstration
• Open Discussion

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The British Cupping Society (BCS)

• Mission Statement
• The British Cupping Society is a national
  organisation representing the Cupping profession
  in The United Kingdom. Its mission is to
  preserve, protect, improve and promote the
  philosophy, knowledge, science and practice of
  Cupping for the benefit of humanity.

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The British Cupping Society (BCS)

• Purpose
• To provide leadership within the Cupping
  profession
• To promote a positive vision of Cupping and its
  holistic approach to
• health and wellbeing
• A source of collection and dissemination of
  research
• lectures, seminars, conferences, workshops
• Create and implement a dynamic strategic plan
  to ensure the
• professional growth and success of Cupping
• Team of qualified Medical and Health
  Professionals

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Why Cupping?
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And whatsoever the messenger gives you, take
it. And whatsoever he forbids, abstain...
Qur'an 597
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas (The Prophet said),
"Healing is in three things A gulp of honey,
cupping, and branding with fire (cauterizing).
But I forbid my followers to use (cauterization)
branding with fire. Sahih Al-Bukhari
771584 - Reviving the Sunnah
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The best of treatments..

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• Narrated AbuHurayrah The Prophet (peace be upon
  him) said
• The best medical treatment you apply is cupping.
• Abu Dawood
• (Book 39, Hadith 3848 )
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Healing is in three things..
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What is Cupping?

• Being non-judgemental
• Definition
• Al-Hejamah (Cupping) literally means to suck
• Ancient method of treatment and cure
• broad range of conditions
• blood diseases, sterility/impotency, skin
  diseases, arthritis/rheumatism, back pain,
  migraines and general well-being
• Aim to remove blood that is potentially harmful
  to the body system leading to an improvement in
  well-being

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History of Cupping

• Has been used in almost every culture throughout
  history
• The Lancet was traditionally utilised in
  venesection and to prick boils
• In the Middle-East and Far East, part of medical
  practice for three millennia
• Hippocrates (400 BC) and ancient Egyptians -Ebers
  Papyrus (1550 BC) Cupping (Curtis, 2005)
• In the Middle and Far East, the practice has
  continued and is flourishing again

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Ancient Egyptians
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Cupping in India and Africa
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Cupping in Europe
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Cupping in Ancient Greece
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Cupping in China
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Cupping in India and Africa
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Cupping in Ancient Greece
Hippocrates (400 BC)
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Cupping in Europe 1
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Types of Cupping Therapy
Wet Cupping
Dry Cupping
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Benefits of Cupping

• Benefits of cupping are diverse but unproven.
• Circulatory function and autonomic nervous
  system.
• Pain
• Relaxation of muscle
• Effects upon the skin
• Effects upon Joints
• Effects upon the GI system (digestion)
• Detoxification application

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Contraindications

• No major side effects, minimal discomfort
• local anaesthetic can be administered
• slight light headedness
• Pregnant women or menstruating women,
• cancer (metastatic) patients and patients
• bone fractures or muscle spasms
• site of DVT, where there are ulcers, arteries or
  places where a pulse can be felt (Chirali,
  1999,).

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Cupping Theory How does it work?

• A number of theories have been proposed
• Pain relief/Pain-Gate Theory
• Blood detoxification Theory
• Correction of Electro-Magnetic Fields Theory
• Maintenance of Balance of Physiological Systems
  Theory
• Activation of Immune System Theory
• Muscle Relaxation Theory

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How does it work cntd.

• Biological level by activating
• the immune system ?
• Enkephalin secretion ?
• neuro-transmitter release ?
• vasoconstriction and dilatation ?
• the gates for pain in the CNS which interpret
  pain sensation
• (NIH Consensus Development Panel, 1998 Schulte,
  1996).

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Theory continued

• Stimulation of Acupoints ? overwhelming of pain
  gates ? closure of the gates? pain reduction
  (Oumeish, 1998 Cadwell, 1998), and thus an
  improvement in quality of life.
• Similarities between Cupping Therapy and
  Acupuncture.
• Similar mechanism of biological action.

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The impact of Cupping Therapy Well-Being (Tables
1 and 2)

• Difficult to quantify exactly the extent of exact
  impact on well-being
• An increase of overall 1/10 was achieved and was
  maintained
• Supported by the paired sample t-test (p
  0.05).
• Therefore
• Biological benefits of cupping therapy in
  conjunction with the psychological uses of
  cupping collectively induce a feeling of physical
  and psychological well being.

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Instrumentation
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Other Published Research

• Lüdtke., 2006 Brachialgia paraesthetica nocturna
  can be relieved by "wet cupping"-Results of a
  randomised pilot study. Complement Ther Med. 2006
  Dec 14 (4)247-253 17105694
• Zhang et al., 2006 Effects of drug cupping
  therapy on immune function in chronic asthmatic
  bronchitis patients during protracted. Complement
  Ther Med. 2006 Nov 26 (11)984-7 17186726
• Immunomodulatory Effects of Blood Letting
  Cupping Therapy in Patients with Rheumatoid
  Arthritis.
• Sahbaa M. Ahmed, Nour H. Madbouly, Soheir S.
  Maklad and Eman A.
• Abu ..Shady. Department of Microbiology, Faculty
  of Medicine "For Girls", AI-Azhar University,
  Cairo, Egypt.

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More Research

• The effectiveness of wet-cupping for nonspecific
  low back pain in Iran a randomized controlled
  trial. (Farhadi K, Schwebel DC, Saeb M, Choubsaz
  M, Mohammadi R, Ahmadi A.)
• The efficacy of wet-cupping in the treatment of
  tension and migraine headache. (Ahmadi A,
  Schwebel DC, Rezaei M.)
• The effect of wet cupping on serum lipid
  concentrations of clinically healthy young men a
  randomized controlled trial. (Niasari M, Kosari
  F, Ahmadi A.)
• The advantages of cupping therapy for
  fibromyalgia (Jane Thompson )

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Recent Publications on Bloodletting

• History of bloodletting by phlebotomy.
  Bloodletting by phlebotomy has been an obsession
  with medical...8th January, 2009, Bradford NHS
  Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford
  University, Bradford,- Br J Haematol. 2008,
  Nov143(4)490-5. Epub 2008 Sep 6. (DOI Direct
  Link)
• From leeches to lancets the lost donors.
  P-glycoprotein (P-gp), encoded by the multiple
  drug resistance gene ABCB1...3rd January, 2009.
  Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Abdulaziz
  Medical City, Jeddah,- Transfusion. 2008.
  Dec48(12)2490-1. (DOI Direct Link)
• Cupping an alternative surgical procedure used
  by Hippocratic physicians. Pierre Louis, in his
  1836 publication, "Researches on the effects
  of...30th December, 2008. School of Medicine,
  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.- J
  Altern Complement Med. 2008. Oct14(8)899-902.
  (DOI Direct Link)

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Recent Publications on Bloodletting

• Evaluation of cupping therapy as an adjuvant
  therapy in management of bronchial asthma
• THESIS Submitted for Partial Fulfilment of
  Master Degree in Chest Diseases
• By Mohamed Elsayed Mohamed Abd Elgawad M.B.B.ch
• Supervised by
• Prof. Dr. Adel Mohamed Saeed. Professor of Chest
  Diseases, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Elsayed Badawy.
  Professor of pharmacology and Dr. Nevine M.
  Mohamed Abd Elfattah. lecturer of Chest Diseases
• Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University 2008

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Recent Publications on Bloodletting

• Relationship between P-selectin and cardiac
  function in hemorrhagic shock resuscitation
  experiment with rats. OBJECTIVE To investigate
  the relationship between the left
  ventricular...23rd December, 2008. Intensive Care
  Unit, First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou
  Medical College,- Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2008
  Apr 188(13)919-22.
• Instruments, books and other objects memorable
  to (almost) forgotten opinions, therapies,
  buildings, etc. Blood letting instrument.
  Leeching has enjoyed a good reputation in the
  past where it had been used...29th October, 2008-
  Tijdschr Diergeneeskd. 2008 Sep 1133(17)728.
• In defense of Pierre Louis who pioneered the
  epidemiological approach to good medicine. Pierre
  Louis, in his 1836 publication, "Researches on
  the effects of...24th October, 2008.

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Recent Publications on Bloodletting

• Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, School
  of Earth and- J Clin Epidemiol. 2009
  Jan62(1)1.e1-5. Epub 2008 Oct 22. (DOI Direct
  Link)
• Leeching in the history--a review. Leeching has
  enjoyed a good reputation in the past where it
  had been used...18th October, 2008. Regional
  Research Institute of Unani Medicine, University
  of Kashmir,- Pak J Biol Sci. 2008 Jul
  111(13)1650-3.
• Bleedings, purges, and vomits Dr. Benjamin
  Rush's republican medicine, the bilious remitting
  yellow-fever epidemic of 1793, and the non-origin
  of the law of informed consent. To the
  consternation of many physicians, the modern law
  of informed...26th September, 2008 George Mason
  University School of Law, USA.- J Contemp Health
  Law Policy. 2008 Spring24(2)209-50.

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Recent Publications on Bloodletting

• Effect of HOE642 on cardiac myocyte apoptosis in
  rat non heart-beating donors OBJECTIVES To
  investigate the effect of HOE642 on cardiac
  myocyte...18th September, 2008 Department of
  Cardiothoracic Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central
  South- Zhongguo Yi Xue Ke Xue Yuan Xue Bao. 2008
  Aug30(4)474-8.
• The death of George Washington an end to the
  controversy? The controversy surrounding the
  death of George Washington was immediate,...17th
  September, 2008. Surgical Intensive Care Units,
  Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando,- Am
  Surg. 2008. Aug74(8)770-4.
• Cupping therapy-induced iron deficiency anemia in
  a healthy man. The controversy surrounding the
  death of George Washington was immediate,...16th
  September, 2008- Am J Med. 2008 Aug121(8)e5-6.
  (DOI Direct Link)
• Unusual diagnosis and therapy in globus
  sensation. For cupping-bloodletting therapy of
  Saudi Arabia, the patient takes a...30th August,
  2008. HALLESCHE Krankenversicherung,
  Reinsburgstrasse 10, 70178 Stuttgart.-
  Versicherungsmedizin. 2008 Jun 160(2)88-9.

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Recent Publications on Bloodletting

• Observation on therapeutic effect of
  blood-letting puncture combined with red-hot
  needle therapy on knee osteoarthritis .
  OBJECTIVE To observe the therapeutic effect of
  blood-letting puncture...22nd August, 2008.
  Section of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Guangdong
  Provincial Second- Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2008 .
  Jul28(7)493-5.
• Cupping-bloodletting therapy of Saudi Arabia and
  its clinical application . For
  cupping-bloodletting therapy of Saudi Arabia, the
  patient takes a...6th August, 2008 Section of
  Acupuncture and Moxibustion, TCM, Nanning 530023,
  China.- Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2008 .
  May28(5)375-7.
• Thrombocytosis For cupping-bloodletting therapy
  of Saudi Arabia, the patient takes a...19th July,
  2008. Klinik und Poliklinik fur Innere Medizin,
  Universitatsspital Zurich,- Praxis (Bern 1994).
  2008 Apr 297(7)343-9 quiz 350-1.

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