By: Taufiq RN

CUPPING (AL-HIJAMAH)
There
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many typesis anof
cupping
approachtherapy, but eight
for diagnosis,
types of cupping
treatment, are commonly
and prevention of
used in clinical
disease practice:
that employs empty
horn,
cupping,
bamboo, or moving
glass cupping,
cups on
retained
patients' cupping, needle
skin to create negative
cupping,
pressure moxa
insidecupping,
the wet
cupping,
cups. herbal cupping, and
water
(Gao LW.cupping.
Practical Cupping Therapy [book in
Chines)

Wet cupping, also called full or bleeding cupping, was the most
favored and practiced cupping method used by the early practi-
tioners, who particularly in Europe employed the bleeding cup-
ping technique in order to purge foul blood, considered the
source of disease, from the body.
REVIEW OF CUPPING (AL-HIJAMAH)
RESEARCH FOR HERPES ZOSTER

Background:
Results :
Methods:
wet cupping
Eight
We is a traditional
RCTs
included involving
randomized Chinese
651controlled medicine
patients were therapy
trialsincluded,
(RCTs) onand
wet
Conclusion:
the methodological
commonly
cupping
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used in
for herpes
of randomization,
(Issue
quality
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3, 2008),
of trials
treating
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analysis.
and
clinical
Wet studies
cupping have
appearsshown to that
be wet cupping
effective in may have
the
Meta-analyses(CNKI),
Infrastructure showed Chinese
wet cupping was superior
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treatment
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(RR 2.49, 95%
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extracted symptoms
data and assessed (RR
the
large,
1.15, 95%
trials' rigorously
CI 1.05
quality designed
to 1.26, P= Rev.
independently. trials
.003),Man
and are
reducing
5.0.18 the incidence
software (The
warranted.
rate of postherpetic
Cochrane neuralgia
Collaboration, (RR 0.06,
The Nordic 95% CICentre,
Cochrane 0.02 to 0.25, P
=.0001). Wet Denmark)
Copenhagen, cupping plus
wasmedication wasanalysis
used for data significantly
with better
effect
than medication
estimate alone
presented
( Altern Ther Health Med. 2010;16(6):48-54.)
on number
as relative riskof cured
(RR) andpatients (RR
mean difference
1.93,95%
(MD) withCI 1.23 confidence
a 95% to 3.04, P =interval
.005) but demonstrated no
(CI).
difierence in symptom improvement (RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.92 to
1.08, P = .98). There were no serious adverse effects related to
wet cupping therapy in the included trials.
Conclusions: Although bleeding,
erythema, edema, and ecchymosis
are created on purpose to achieve
acu-puncture point
microcirculation, complications
such as burn injury and
thrombocytopenia also have been
reported. We report a case of
cupping-related blisters as a
result of changes in atmospheric
pressure related to the
unexpected descent of an
airplane.