Scientific Basis of Cupping
Some of the scientific aspects regarding the mode of action of Al-Hijamah (Cupping Therapy) as follows: Dr. Naseer Saleh has written that; Al-Hijamah (cupping therapy) is the process to extract nitrate toxicosis in humans which occurs through enterohepatic metabolism of nitrates to ammonia, with nitrite being an intermediate. Nitrites oxidize the iron atoms in hemoglobin…