Hijama Therapy

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Hijama / Wet Cupping

Hijama – Arabic religious treatment procedure

Wet Cupping also known as Hijama involves firstly the process of Dry Cupping massage and Dry Cupping. The process of dry cupping is firstly performed and left on the skin for about 3-5 minutes. This then numbs the skin in preparation for Hijama Wet Cupping. The dry cups are then removed from the areas and then using a small scalpel blade superficial cuts are made on the first layer of the skin. The cup is placed back onto the area and using negative pressure capillary blood is forced out.  this removed stagnated blood from the areas of discomfort and increases the flow of detoxified blood, allowing fresh nutrients and oxygen to reach those areas and giving instant relief. This result in increased elasticity of your muscles and better performance of body organs.

  • Back and neck pains
  • Stiff muscles
  • Sore joints
  • Encourage blood flow
  • Reduces pain and inflammation
  • Migraines & Head Aches
  • Fatigue
  • Rheumatic diseases such as arthritis and fibromyalgia.
  • Fertility and gynecological disorders.
  • Skin problems such as eczema and acne.
  • Anxiety and depression.
  • Blood stagnation
  • High blood pressure.
  • Sedate the nervous system (which makes it an excellent treatment for high blood pressure). 
  • Menstrual cramps, PMS and other OBGYN issues
  • Cellulite

 Many people associate Hijama with the clearance of toxins and morbidities from the body via the microcirculatory system and they would be correct in their thinking! however there is more to Hijama than simply removing blood stasis. It allows the clearance of any occlusions in the lymphatic ducts which are part of the greater lymphatic system.

As blood is drawn into the cups here at Cure Co, we take pride in clients hygiene and safety. Cure uses only disposable products and equipment for each treatment. We dispose of all cups economically after each serviced re stock our equipment regularly to ensure each client receives a new and satisfied experience.

Top Surprising Benefits of Cupping Therapy

Cupping therapy produces heat in the region that allows a good flow of blood to circulate. Thus, it relaxes your muscles and loosens them.  Cupping therapy pressurizes your body parts in order to pull the muscles, tissues, and skin upwards. Here are top 10 surprising benefits of hijama wet cupping therapy. 

TREAT CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME:

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a progressive and miserable condition that disturbs sensation and strength of your hands. Also, it does not allow your hands perform various functions. 

Cupping therapy is an ideal solution to get rid of such extremely miserable conditions. It soothes pain and discomfort associated to the carpal tunnel syndrome. You can experience its therapeutic effects by doing a single session that roots out most of the discomfort from carpal tunnel syndrome. The effect of a session of this technique lasts for a week.

PREVENT ANTI-AGING EFFECTS:

Cupping therapy is stunningly favorable in mitigating anti-aging effects such as wrinkles, fine lines, etc. It fulfils the needs of your skin to a great extent by bringing more nutrition to it. Thus, it makes you experience younger appearance, soft and glowing skin. After this practice of cupping therapy, your skin soaks products such as essential oils, lotions, etc. in a much better way.

It erases wrinkles and fine lines on your skin by lifting motion that comes with suctioning. It is a natural method that is suitable for both oily and dry skin. It delivers your skin softer and younger appearance as well. The aesthetic benefits of cupping therapy relax your tense facial muscles.

SOOTHES DIGESTIVE DISORDERS:

It is an old age most popular practice that helps to cure a variety of digestive disorders that involves IBS or irritable bowel syndrome. Hijama Cupping therapy provides stress relieving effects that promotes your healthy digestion.

Hijama is helpful to get rid of constipation and bloating. Its positive effects make your digestive system function normally again. Alternatively, it soothes all the discomfort such as loss of appetite, gastritis, stomach cramps, diarrhea, water retention, a host of gastrointestinal diseases and many more concerns associated to the digestive system.

IMPROVE SKIN HEALTH:

Cupping therapy is also known to improve ill skin conditions such as diminishes cellulite, mitigates herpes breakouts, prevents skin inflammation, eliminates eczema as well as acne. You pressurize points on the body such as above the ankle, below the knee, and the top end of the spinal cord in case of eczema.

This practice helps to energize your skin tissues and regulate the flow of blood again in the affected areas by providing nutrients and oxygen as well. As a result, a lot of antibodies are produced in your body that promote healing procedure and supply you a charming and glowing skin.

INDUCE INFLAMMATION TO CURE FASTER:

Inflammation is listed in one of the major defense mechanisms in your body that helps to heal injury faster. It insists things to be active and works against injuries and illness. If you inflame your muscular injury, it will help to deluge the injured or ill muscles with platelets, nutrients, blood, WBC or white blood cells along with fibroblasts to aid in healing. Primarily, it works to bring the blood to the affected parts and consequently, it promotes to create new blood vessels.

A majority of athletes usually go for cupping therapy to experience unique relaxation, helping to cure adhesions and knots and makes your body to recover faster.

HELPS IN DETOXIFICATION:

Most of the time, you experience common concerns such as poor blood circulation. This problem of poor blood circulation leads you build up toxins inside the tissues of your body. You may face a variety of other serious illness that makes you feel discomfort all the time. In such a case, people prefer cupping therapy instead of utilizing medical prescription.

Cupping therapy kicks the stagnation as well as the proper flow of blood flushes toxins out of your body. Alternatively, it cuts down the dead cells and promotes growth of new cells. Thus, cupping therapy makes your body toxins free as it eliminates such unwanted elements naturally. The better idea will be to drink plenty of water just after cupping therapy so that you can have a sound body health far from impurities.

PROVIDES RELAXATION:

An enormous number of people are suffering from the sedentary lifestyle in this chaotic world. Everybody is busy in their daily schedule and nobody has time to look at their own health condition. They do not have time even to relax their body. These sluggish leads them to have stress, anxiety, chronic depression and a host of health conditions. Thus, people often prefer to have cupping therapy that delivers them wonderful and immense relaxing relief. The soothing nature of cupping therapy removes the pressure from the tense muscles too.

You just need to give at least a half an hour to experience the cupping therapy. It makes you feel comfortable and relaxing by sedating the central nervous system.

SOOTH COMMON ILLNESS:

Whenever you get cupping therapy, it stimulates not only your lungs but also other vital organs in your body to erase phlegm. The excess amount of phlegm helps in arousing chronic cough. So, cupping therapy encourages your body to works against cough, the nasty cold and many other allergic symptoms. It helps to promote the flow of lymphatic fluid as well as blood throughout the body that helps to improve your immune system to a great extent.

PAIN RELIEF:

Every third person complains that they are suffering from pain in various parts of the body. Using cupping therapy is an ideal solution that most of the people go for. The practice of cupping focuses on the soft tissues and apply pressure to the areas of swelling and pain points as well. It helps to draw the good flow of blood and fulfils the requirements of your body tissues and supply proper nutrition and oxygen to them.

It works to ease stiffness, relax tense muscles, and relieves your tissues deep within the body. Cupping therapy produces heat that passes through the injury region. As a result, it makes your body healthy and happy.

RELIEF FROM MIGRAINE HEADACHES:

It is not an easy task to deal with chronic migraine headaches. But cupping therapy is favorable in this notorious difficulty. It helps you get rid of migraine headaches and cuts down the factor to an excellent extent that are responsible for this miserable concern. As a result, it relives you over time.

The word "hijama" is derived from an arabic word "hajm" which means "sucking." Cupping is the process of applying cups to various sunnah points on the body by removing the air inside the cups to form a vacuum. A Remedy encouraged and prescribed by the Muhammad sallallaahu alayhi Wasallam who said, "Indeed the best of remedies that you have is cupping ..." (Sahih Bukhari). Cupping therapy uses suction to bring out toxic blood, phlegm to the surface of the body, then the immune system discharges the waste naturally in the days that follow. It is one of the best techniques which heals many internal conditions, chronic diseases and musculoskeletal pains. It helps in prevention of diseases and strengthening of immune system.

Cupping activates the dormant immune system which helps the body to heal itself. Cupping Therapy help in detoxification of blood which helps remove pain. Treatments through allopathic medicines, homeopathy, and physiotherapy often have side effects or sometimes they are ineffective on certain individuals. Hijama Cupping therapy offers an effective and immediate treatment for patients suffering with pain, chronic and other conditions too. For certain problems, A single session can provide a long-lasting cure for severe health issues, regular cupping helps strengthens the immune system which in turn helps in self-healing of diseases.

Cupping causes the release of endorphins in the body (natural painkillers) and other hormones such as serotonin which helps the body self-heal and prevent itself from diseases.

Quite simply yes! As the main form of treatment in the East for thousands of years, it could not have continued for so long if it did not work. There are many evidence’s that demonstrates that effectiveness of Cupping in treating certain conditions such as back pain, knee pain, asthma, sinusitis, the list goes on. We highly recommend for you to ask the people who have had their cupping or try cupping to feel the immediate results it has on the body.

The blades used for cupping are much finer than those normally used and are not painful. The sensation felt while cupping is done is often described as a sharp scratch around the area where it’s done. Many Patients often report feeling relaxed or invigorated during and after the cupping treatment. Cupping is not a painful or unpleasant experience.

The assessment which is carried out will normally be for around an hour as patient's full medical history is taken which includes all aspects of his/her health. We make sure that only a safe amount of blood is removed in each session. The subsequent sessions will be shorter.

It depends on the area being treated, you may need to undress only the part of the body on which the cupping is to be done. Female Patients will be treated by our female doctors.

It differs from person to person as each one of them have a unique disease to be healed. After each session you will be able to notice many improvements, for chronic conditions such as asthma you may need cupping once for a few months and then less often.

The time span is dependent on your daily typical toxin exposure. We advise you not to consume any red meats, dairy products, junk food and alcohol and to avoid any toxic chemicals such as cigarettes and narcotics for a brief period of 24 hours post-treatment. This is to ensure your body can concentrate on recuperation rather than trying to digest ‘difficult’ foods or to process other toxins through things like cigarettes. So, we recommend that you limit your toxin exposure so that you have a swift recovery. Although the initial 24-hour period may be a little tender on the Wet Cupping points, the time scale to fully heal ranges from usually 5 days to about 14 days. If you suffer from diabetes or you have skin which doesn’t usually heal very quickly, consider purchasing some of our local honey (which has amazing skin rejuvenation properties) or our coconut oil (which isn’t sticky like honey) and applying it topically on the scratches.

In the Wet Cupping Therapy treatment, we strictly only use surgical-grade Lancet. These are designed to prevent scarring due to the narrow and light Lancet. This leaves scratches superficial and decreases the healing time significantly as opposed to using non-surgical-grade equipment. They are also designed to prevent a deep incision which again, allows the healing time to decrease significantly. If it’s taking a little bit longer to heal than usual, apply some our local honey to the area before you go to bed every night until the scratches are not visible any more.

A Moving Cupping Therapy treatment or Fixed Cupping Therapy treatment will allow you to comfortably continue your work immediately after treatment. Wet Cupping Therapy treatments may result in a slight uncomfortable feeling for a few hours, but will not make you drowsy. However, we recommend that you rest immediately afterwards (especially after your first ever session) as you may feel quite tired after the treatment. If you need to stay awake for a long period of time after your session, why not brew one of our special hibiscus flowers into a delicious tea instead of relying on caffeine? You will benefit from an additional detox between sessions too!

All we ask is that you do not eat anything 2 hours prior to treatment. However, you can hydrate yourself up to (and even during) the session. It would be wise to have a good nutritious meal about 3 hours before treatment so that you can finish eating and have more than 2 hours for your body to process your foods.

A Moving Cupping Therapy treatment or Fixed Cupping Therapy treatment will allow you to comfortably continue your work immediately after treatment. Wet Cupping Therapy treatments may result in a slight uncomfortable feeling for a few hours, but will not make you drowsy. However, we recommend that you rest immediately afterwards (especially after your first ever session) as you may feel quite tired after the treatment. If you need to stay awake for a long period of time after your session, why not brew one of our special hibiscus flowers into a delicious tea instead of relying on caffeine? You will benefit from an additional detox between sessions too!In order to ensure a speedy recovery, we recommend the following: Do not eat any red meats or dairy products for 24 hours as these foods take a lot of energy to aid digestion, when the energy should be used for recuperation instead. Also, stay away from any C.R.A.P. foods too, as these have a tendency to put a negative strain on your body. Do not bathe for 24 hours post-treatment as it may be painful in the areas of wet cupping. A quick shower is allowed, however do not use any chemicals such as shampoo or conditioner for the first 24 hours so that we can limit the toxin absorption. If you prefer not to shower (it may sting when water gets into the scratched areas), try wiping down your body with baby wipes and applying baby powder or talcum powder to those areas prone to sweating in replacement of your shower in this period of time. Do not endure physical (or emotional) stress for the next 24 hours. Your body requires rest, and lots of it! If you really wanted to, you could use this session as an excuse to get out of washing the dishes or changing smelly nappies for a night; although when we talk about physical stress, we mean that you shouldn’t be working out at the gym, climbing mountains or engaging in intercourse. For at least 2 hours post-treatment, keep yourself awake and spend the time having a good nutritious meal to help your body kick-start the healing process. The best thing to start off with would be a spoon of our delicious local honey mixed with a glass of warm (never boiling!) water. Then follow that with something high in fibre like a few fruits. Fibre has the amazing ability of latching onto stray toxins and escorting them straight out of the body.

When practiced in a clean and hygienic environment under the guidance of a qualified health professional both cupping and wet cupping are safe and relatively risk free. A screening of previous medical history and medications is always conducted to ensure that the treatment is suitable for the individual patient. Vital signs such as blood pressure and heart rate are also conducted. In the case of wet cupping all materials used on each patient are single use and disposed of after each treatment eliminating any risks of cross contamination. The small pin pricks or light scratches created to release stagnant blood are so small that they do not release blood after the cups have been removed and are almost always dry by the end of each treatment. The quantity of blood removed is usually of a very minimal amount and this is usually no more than the quantity taken in a routine blood test. As a general precaution however patients iron levels are always taken into consideration. Our Therapy adviser give you after care advice which helps you in the getting healed.

Yes, it heals him, in most of the cases the person on whom the magic is done will vomit after cupping and sweat much.

Hijama has stimulating and strengthening effects so it successfully treats the following conditions: Constipation and Diarrhoea, Headaches, Sinusitis, Thyroid Disorders, Infertility, Cervical, Back pain, Arthritis, Injuries, Asthma, Cellulite, Fatigue, Anaemia, Gynaecological Disorders, Diabetes Mellitus, Depression, Atrophy, Sciatica, Common Cold and Flu, Skin Problems, Sexual Problems, Weight Loss and much more.

Not really. Of course, you will feel a suction sensation, but you shouldn’t feel any pain. In the event that your muscles are really tight and your tissues are very stagnant, you may experience a degree of soreness; however, it should be quite slight, and it should subside. If, for any reason, you do feel any pain, let your therapist know, and they can loosen the strength of the cups to make you more comfortable.

Once your session is complete, your therapist will remove the cups and you will be free to get dressed and return to your regular activities. At first, you’ll see red marks where the cups where, and those marks will turn into reddish-purplish circular spots. The colour will progressively decrease each day. On average, it takes about 7 to 10 days for the skin to return to normal. Make sure you stay well-hydrated after your session by drinking plenty of water. Doing so will help to maintain circulation; plus, drinking plenty of water is always good for you, even when you aren’t cupping.

If you’re an athlete and you’re making cupping a part of your training routine, scheduling an appointment for a session within about 24 hours of a serious workout is highly recommended, as you’ll want to give yourself a full day to recover from the therapy before you start working out or participating in your sport again.

It depends on your specific needs and goals. If, for example, you’re an athlete and you’re actively training, frequent sessions may be your best bet; however, if you’re interested in detoxing and want to promote relaxation, once a month may do you well. Speak with your therapist about your objectives and they will be able to advise you about the ideal frequency of sessions.