Away too long but now I am back!

Greetings!

Wow! I have totally forgotten about this way too long. Oh! Here am I again. Will soon get back in here to scribble anything that may be of use to you readers.

I'll be back!

Cupping 2013!

Greetings and salam to all!

It is not yet too late to wish everyone Happy New Year!

What about eh!

It has been a wonderful 2012! Alhamdulillah! We are blessed with mountains of great health and rezeki from the almighty! It has been nice to note that cupping/hijama or bekam has gain its popularity in treating people who seeks to liven the sunnah or people who wanted to improve their health. I was blessed to have patients who got many of their health problems remedied with the Rahmat of Allah. Yes, I am just the practitioner who learn the therapy but Allah is the ultimate healer.

Just a refresher to new readers, cupping/hijama/bekam is an ancient healing methodology that was practiced thousands years back. It is a methodology to isolate and if need be let coagulated blood out of the blood vessel system. Coagulation is the process where blood form clots. The clots may damage the lining of the blood vessel and makes blood circulation sluggish. When this happens, abundance of possibilities may happen to us. Some got easily tired. Some fell sick and in some circumstances experience deep vein thrombosis which could be a silent killer.

Cupping helps. It has been around for so many years now. A good practitioner will normally do a dry cupping on his patients and if need arise will recommend to continue with wet cupping i.e. letting out the blood clots. It is however the patients' choice whether or not to do a wet cupping.

It is best to find a qualified practitioner as they are normally well trained. After your cupping therapy it is always advisable to drink some water and it is best if you can take a table spoon of honey. Pray to Allah to ease you of any pain or sickness after that. Allah is the ultimate healer.

May all of us be blessed with better health and wealth, amin yaa rabbul alamin.

Jazakallahu khair

Services

Dry Cupping/Bekam - RM30 for 7 cups (additional RM20 for blood letting - If you wish to cup on the head please have your head shaven prior to the cupping procedure)
Massage - RM50 for 1.5hr
Reflexology - RM25

House call - Service incorporating cupping/bekam + massage + reflexology @ RM150 within KL only

Hotel call - Service incorporating cupping/bekam + massage + reflexology @ RM199 within KL only


Call for appointment - 0179634598

Blood Clots 101

• Blood clots form when blood fails to circulate adequately.
• Arterial thrombi form when a plaque ruptures and promotes an acute clot formation.
• Venous thrombosis occurs when prolonged immobilization allows blood to pool in an extremity and then clot.

What causes blood clots?

Blood clots form when there is damage to the lining of a blood vessel, either an artery or a vein. The damage may be obvious, such as a laceration, or may occur on the microscopic level. As well, blood will begin to clot if it stops moving and becomes stagnant. 

An analogy to this process is a slow moving river. Over time, weeds and algae start to accumulate along the banks of the river where the water flows more slowly. Gradually, as the weeds start to grow, they begin to invade the center of the river because they can withstand the pressure of the oncoming water flow. 

Blood clotting may cause heart attack, stroke, or peripheral artery disease. 

Blood leaking out of a blood vessel will be beneficial when a person gets a cut or scrape wound, because the clot helps stop further bleeding at the wound site. The clotting mechanism works well following trauma as well. Broken bones, sprains and strains, and nosebleeds all result in bleeding that is controlled by the body's clotting mechanism. But those are indeed a very painful experience, don’t you think so?

Other medical problems from blood clots are bleeding occur in the urine from any of a variety of reasons (such as infection, trauma, or tumor) clots may form and prevent the bladder from emptying, causing urinary retention. Clot formation in the uterus may cause pain when the clots are passed through the cervix and can lead to vaginal bleeding, either as part of menstruation or as abnormal vaginal bleeding. 

What are the risk factors for blood clots?

The risk factors for arterial clots are those that are common to all diseases that cause narrowing of blood vessels, cholesterol plaque formation, and plaque rupture.

Removing blood clots

Alhamdulillah, the events in Israq Mikraj has revealed that cupping is the best way to remove blood clot and all the unwanted toxins that come with it. This is indeed the easiest and cheaper way of managing our health. As modern medicine evolves, new techniques were also introduced with the very same objective, insyaAllah.

REFERENCE:

eMedicine.com. Deep Vein Thrombosis and Thrombophlebitis.
<http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/758140-overview.>

Fauci, Anthony S., et al. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 17th ed. United States: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008.

Incorporating cupping therapy in rehabilitating fatigue

Alhamdulillah. I was blessed to have learned both cupping therapy and massage therapy. I usually offer both services to my visitors as a combination treatment to help them feel better after they left the treatment table, insyaAllah.

Through my practice, I have found that dry cupping therapy is indeed very effective in immediately rehabilitate a very tired athlete or sportsmen. The time of treatment is also shortened and I can treat a number of athletes at the same time.

All I would do is to cup areas at the neck, along the spine, middle meridian areas, lower back, the quadriceps and the calf. The treatment will take between 15 to 20 minutes.

After the treatment, I will apply light massage on the body and then complement it with light stretches. A glass of water at the end of the treatment will be a good help. Let them rest for about 15 to 20 minutes more before asking them to have a cool shower. The athlete will felt rejuvenated after that, insyaAllah

To all cupping therapist, please try this if it helps.

May Allah helps us all.


Jazakallahu kahiran for your attention.
 

Can Cupping Therapy really cure?

A devout Muslim will always pray to Allah s.w.t. to refrain him from getting sick. As a human, there is no way that we will remain healthy as time goes by. The food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breath, the environment that we are living in, somehow will influence our health. All toxin ans waste in our body will be flushed by a system that Allah s.w.t. has created. Subhanallah. Anyhow, most of the times, our body are unable to get rid of all of the toxins. Air will get trapped in our body. Some bad blood were unable to be flushed out because it becomes clotted by the coagulation process. When this happened the only sensible way is to undergo surgery to remove the clot or some easy way is to take aspirin (pardon me of my limited medicine knowledge).


Cupping therapy is one of the better and very cheap methodology to remove blot clot from the body. Cupping therapy can help remove blood clotting or some would term as dead blood cells if done properly and hygienically. After such cupping therapy, it is advisable or I would rather say that the subject to remain active as opposed to just rest or going to sleep.

As a cupping therapist, I use a cupping pen and needle lancet to puncture the skin where the cupping points is to be done accordingly. Prior to that, the area of which to let the blood out through the cupping cups will be sterilized. The depth is about 2mm. Using this methodology is more forgiving as it minimized the risk of cutting the patient’s skin if we have not mastered the skill of using a blade. It is also important that the cupping therapist must ensure all apparatus are kept clean and sterilized before each cupping session. 

The duration depends on each therapist. I prefer a 2-3 minutes repetition rather than leaving it for a longer duration. But this depends very much on the skin conditions of the patient.

After the session, the area cupped will  be sterilized and the patient will be given a glass of water. A dua will be recited to ask forgiveness from Allah s.w.t. and plea that any sickness or discomfort the patient has will be relieved from him.

May we meet again sooner or later. Jazakallahu Khairan for taking your time reading this.

Salam. 

Cupping therapy in Malaysia

Cupping therapy has been practiced in Malaysia for a very long long time. Then cupping were done using buffalo horns and occasionally drinking glasses. More often than not, it is done on the head.

It was despicable I thought. Men drawing blood from their head but none of them went dead after that. It then became an experience I never bother to ask or search for an answer.

The interest to learn cupping came to me when I started to indulge into complementary healing after I became bored with my corporate consulting job. The advent of internet has indeed given me tons of information about cupping. it seems that the ancient Chinese has been using this as one of the alternative healing methodologies in their traditional chinese medicine. Many literatures has been written and they made it popular using TCM as the vehicle.

The western world started to see the benefits and it has since becomes very popular with them. Even celebrities and sportsmen has used cupping therapy to heal their discomfort or sports injuries respectively. Many difficult injuries were able to benefits from this.

In the Muslim world, the stories of Israk-Mikraj reveals that Rasullullah Muhammad s.a.w. was asked by the angels to use cupping to heal sickness. Without the internet, little is known about this as it has never been told during the many tazkirah on Israk-Mikraj that talks about this important healing methodology. Nonetheless, much discussions have been around and this sunnah is obviously started to be told again. Alhamdulillah.

I got my training in cupping from the Faculty of Homeopathy Malaysia. It was a very good experience. My trainer and lecturer was a Homeopathy Doctor by the name of Nik Fairuz, the son of Malaysia famous Homeopathy professor, Dr Nik Omar who is also the person who makes homeopathy, acupuncture, and cupping popular in Malaysia. There has since many cupping practitioners that offers cupping as a complementary healing in this country.

The practices of cupping in Malaysia is generally the blood letting technique or also known as wet cupping. Most practitioners uses Chinese cupping apparatus. Hygiene aspects has also been emphasize to ensure it is done with utmost safety.

I hope to make use of this methodology to help people who suffer from sickness or discomfort to complement modern medicine or therapy they are using. Insyaallah.