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Acupuncture is a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your body.
In Acupuncture treatment needles are inserted to various depths at strategic points on your body.
The needles are very thin and people often don’t feel them inserted at all.
Only disposable or one time use needles are used for this purpose.
When the needle is inserted into the body there is slight pain. In addition to pain, there are four types of sensation viz. Pain, Numbness, Heaviness & Distention. It indicates that the needle is inserted at the correct point and to the correct depth. During needling, the patient experiences a minute prick on some points whereas on the majority of other points it is painless. Sometimes bleeding occurs on withdrawal of the needles. Slight Bruising at the sight of acupuncture is fairly common and has no dangerous implications.
One sitting of acupuncture takes around 20-30 minutes. The duration of the treatment varies depending on the history, chronic or acute ailment, and the person’s body response to the treatment.
There are no negative side effects of acupuncture but the positive side effects are the increase in sleep, improvement of skin and hair texture, increased vitality, etc.
Acupuncture treatment has a hypoglycaemic effect so one should never take acupuncture treatment on an empty stomach. Secondly, do not cross your hands or legs while taking the treatment as it creates blockages in the flow of energies.
Acupuncture involves applying mild electrical pulses to the needles and may potentially interfere with a pacemaker’s operation.
So it’s better to inform the practitioner well in advance regarding your pace maker so that the practitioner will decide accordingly.
Some acupuncture points are thought to stimulate labor, which could result in a premature delivery.
So it’s very important to inform the practitioner about your pregnancy well in advance.
Hijamah is an Arabic word mainly stands for wet cupping or blood cupping, in therapy blood is drawn by vacuum from small skin incisions for therapeutic purpose.
If done properly pain is minimal to minimal so as any one can tolerate it. In the years of my practice I can say most of Hijamah points are very negligibly painful but Hijamah on head, like on vertex (ilyfokh) or on occipitalregion (qumhoodah) on foot (zahrul quadam)are little painfulbut their benefits definitely surpasses the pain caused by them.
It depends on the nature of the disease and the health of the patient but mostly the frequency is once a month to once in three months.
No. Any person who is suffering from kidney disease, severe anemia, aged men or women, or small children can’t be cupped. People suffering from Diabetes or Blood Pressure can do Hijamah provided they do not have high blood sugar or high blood pressure at the time of Hijamah. People who are using thrombolysers like aspirin or clopidrogil, etc. cannot be cupped until these medications are stopped 2 to 3 days before the procedure and can be resumed the next day of the procedure but in these patients, there are some risks involved before, during and after the procedure, Patients should be well aware of these factors. Hijamah should never be performed on pregnant women. Kidney failure patients can only be dry cupped. No wet cupping on them.