This is a letter in response to article http://dx.doi.org/10. 1093/qjmed/hcu227. The authors inform us that the standardization of cupping therapy will reduce the occurrence of adverse effects and help promote the therapy. Cupping therapy or blood-letting therapy has been used for many centuries by well-known people including George Washington and Mozart. Now the celebrities of our current age ...

Menstruation is a process where the uterine lining decays. often occurs during childbearing age, it not uncommon for discomfort to be felt, one of which dysmenorrhea . Dysmenorrhea pain in abdomen due cramps and menstrual blood disorders Several therapies that can used reduce include pharmacological non-pharmacological methods. Pharmacological therapy taking ibuprofen, mefenamic acid other drug...

BACKGROUND In conditions such as phantom limb pain and low back pain body image is distorted. This qualitative study investigates body image in patients with chronic non-specific neck pain (CNP), its influence on their everyday life and any changes linked to traditional cupping therapy. METHODS The study was conducted with a convenience sample of 6 patients with CNP from a larger randomised c...

Sin.?I have had much pleasure in reading Surgeon-Major Davis's article on the above subject, and, as he asks for results, I beg to inform him that in three cases which have lately been under my care dry cupping was used with advantage in all after the cold" douche, and in one of the cases sinapism in addition. T find that it takes away the pain more quickly than the slower counter-irritation pr...

Hypercholesterolemia is a condition in which cholesterol concentrations the blood exceed normal levels, resulting death if total levels 240 mg/dl. The purpose of this study was to determine effect cupping therapy on hypercholesterolemia patients at Islamic Medication Clinic Reflection and Cupping Samarinda. This quantitative with pre-experimental group combined pre-test post-test groups. number...

The objective of this study was to assess the evidence for or against the effectiveness of cupping as a treatment option for pain. Fourteen databases were searched. Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) testing cupping in patients with pain of any origin were considered. Trials using cupping with or without drawing blood were included, while trials comparing cupping with other treatments of unprove...