Hijamah or cupping therapy has a therapeutic effect on cholesterol. However, there is still lack of studies that investigate the potential in managing apolipoprotein B as proatherogenic agent and A-1 an anti-proatherogenic agent. This study aims to explore lipid profiles apolipoproteins hypercholesterolemic patients. A pre-post experimental design without controls were used. Consecutive samplin...

Acupuncture is an old therapeutic method that includes both needle and nonneedle acupuncture. Nonneedle acupuncture includes moxibustion, cupping, and acupressure. In the field of dermatology, acupuncture has been reported to be beneficial for the treatment of acne, postherpetic neuralgia, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and urticaria. In acupuncture treatment of dermal diseases, both the filifor...

OBJECTIVE Wet cupping is a traditional bloodletting method recommended for controlling of respiratory disease complications. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of wet cupping vs. venesection on arterial O2 saturation level of smokers. METHODS This is a randomized controlled clinical trial which started with simple sampling of smokers. After administering spirometery, participants (N = 1...

This community service activity aims to increase people's knowledge of how do cupping properly and correctly, create a healthy village during the pandemic, as an effort prevent transmission COVID-19 by promoting preventive health measures. The method implementing this is combining theories (discussion) 25% practice 75%, well entrepreneurial provisions. There were 25 participants in training. ev...

The research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cupping therapy (CT) in changes on skin surface temperature (SST) for relieving chronic neck and shoulder pain (NSP) among community residents. A single-blind experimental design constituted of sixty subjects with self-perceived NSP. The subjects were randomly allocated to two groups. The cupping group received CT at SI 15, GB 21, and LI 15...

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This is a comment on " Addendum: Safety Standards for Gua Sha (Press-Stroking) and Ba Guan (Cupping) " [1]. Interventions of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are facing h...

INTRODUCTION Cupping is used in various traditional medicine forms to relieve pain in musculoskeletal diseases. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cupping in relieving the symptoms of knee osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS In a two-group, randomized controlled exploratory pilot study patients with a clinically and radiological confirmed knee OA (Kellgren-Lawrence Grading...