Dry/Wet Cupping – Hijama

Description

Through Dry/Wet Cupping – Hijama we can apply different techniques with effects on muscle tension and pain and other ailments.

Duration 45 minutes.

We will apply a dry cupping for contractures and muscle tension relieving joints and deeply relaxing the muscles. It is highly recommended for people who do intense sports, and its application on the back and legs is recommended. The session usually results in a feeling of release. Also to apply general therapies, such as for gastrointestinal disorders, emotional tension, menstrual disorders or headaches and migraines among others. We apply the dry cupping on specific points steadily for between 10 and 20 minutes to treat different diseases. We also can use the suction cups with oils, moving them while performing the suction, providing an intense massage similar to deep tissue massage.

With the wet cupping we release stagnant blood and detoxify the body, solving chronic pain and psycho-emotional disorders derived from energy stagnation. Wet cupping is used by making small incisions in the skin to extract accumulated, excessive, or stale blood. It has a powerful detoxifying effect, restores vitality, makes you feel lighter and perform better on a physical and mental level.

Through Dry/Wet Cupping – Hijama we can apply different techniques with effects on muscle tension and pain, and other ailments.

The cupping method of therapy has actually been mentioned in the historical records of various great civilisations of the world, including Egypt, China, India, Europe and America. So that various cupping terms are known in the world in various languages including kop, cucurbit,
cupping, fire-bottle, blood-letting, pa hou kuan (Mandarin). Through the study of some evidence of historical records, it was found that the beginning of cupping was known to world civilisations since the Sumerian kingdom was established around 4000 years BC. Then developed and expanded towards Babylon, Egypt, Saba and the land drained by the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers.

The Chinese traditional doctors practised cupping for a long time. Some sources even state that China was the first nation to introduce cupping in the world.

Egyptian civilisation applied cupping date back to the reign of the Pharaohs, around 2500 years BC.

We found the oldest evidence of the practice of cupping in Ancient Egyptian times in the Ebers Papyrus, dated 1550 BC. Ancient Egyptian wrote it and contains medical practices in Ancient Egyptian times. Those including 700 treatment formulas and therapies in various aspects. Some examples are contraception, pregnancy, body infections, skin and eye disorders, burn treatment, cancer and tumour treatment and surgical approaches. We found other evidence of Ancient Egyptian cupping practice engraved on the walls of a temple in the Kom Ombo (180 – 47 BC), Aswan region.

In the Islamic tradition, the practitioners use wet cupping or “hijama” following the recommendation of the Prophet Mohammad SAS. In this case, the recommendation is doing it during specific days of the month, related to the moon cycle. According to prophetic tradition, the hijama helps improves various ailments, improves circulation and promotes the maintenance of health.

Dry/Wet Cupping – Hijama is an intense, non-invasive therapy, with a high power to release tension, both physical and energetic. Both dry and wet cupping work provide positive aspects to our health. For example, the blood drainage from wet cupping has a special detoxifying and renewing effect.

We include cupping as part of our complete TCM acupuncture treatments.

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