Cupping Therapy: Uses, Benefits, and More: Does Cupping Therapy Work? Side Effects, Benefits & Types
Hijama or Cupping therapy is the ancient practice of medical treatment, in which therapists put cups on your skin for a matter of few minutes to create suction.
The ultimate goal of this therapy is to get relief from mental tensions including pain and inflammation. Hijama helps in the proper regulation of blood, quite similar to deep tissue massage.
The Hijama cups are made of
- Bamboo
- Silicone
- Earthenware
- Glass
Hijama therapy is trending now, but it has too old history. It was also performed back in Chinese, Egyptian, and Middle Eastern culture.
Hijama Cupping Points:
The most frequent question asked by many patients and practitioners to the therapist is that
Q. Is there any specific base for underlying specific sites for performing Hijama?
Q. Do the therapeutic outcomes change on using different sites?
Q. Does those sites differ from disease to disease?
A little research is existed to answer these questions, we can get answers on understanding the basics of Hijama. For the general guide, the therapist put suction cups near anatomically possible to disease tissue to facilitate excretion of excess tissue fluids, intravascular tissues, or CPS.
For Example, the excretion of bacterial toxins and bacteria in cupped blood. Cupping therapy done over the inflamed cellulitis region dramatically relieved the inflammatory and toxic processes through excreting bacteria and bacterial toxins in cupped blood in sucking in addition to sucking edema fluid.
The scientific basis for selecting anatomical sites for Hijama or cupping therapy depends on the primary site of pathology, its distribution, and the degree of therapeutic benefits gained from blood and interstitial fluid clearance. The degree of clearance can be enhanced by the number, size, and pressure (to some extent) of cups.
The performance of Hijama or cupping therapy indicates treatment of more than one disease with variable etiologies and pathogenesis through non-specific excretion of each disease. The therapist should remove hair from the area to be cupped to ensure a perfect sterile atmosphere with no liability of the existence of hair (foreign body) at the skin puncture site. This is expected to facilitate easy rapid healing of skin scarifications done in the process of Hijama.
