BACKGROUND Diabetes is known as one of the most common diseases in the world and its treatment is one of the most important healthcare issues. Consequently, different treatment methods of complementary medicine and recent medicine have been used by scientific communities to control and predict the disease. This article considered the effects of dry cupping and wet cupping, based on traditional ...

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...

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...

BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of two different forms of dry pulsatile cupping in patients with chronic low back pain (cLBP) compared to medication on demand only in a three-armed randomized trial. METHODS 110 cLBP patients were randomized to regular pulsatile cupping with 8 treatments plus paracetamol on demand (n = 37), minimal cupping with 8 treatments plus paracetamo...

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...