The Hijama

Hijama, ancestral method, it is also called cupping therapy or extraction by suction cups and incisiotherapy. Cupping therapy allows, by removing the blood accumulated at specific points in the body to relieve pain, balance the body's balancing functions, stimulate the production of certain hormones by stimulating the endocrine glands such as the hypothalamus, the pituitary, pancreas, thymus, adrenals. Wet hijama is the extraction of toxic and harmful substances from the body. This explains why for a long time, it is its purifying function which was recognized (reduction of bad cholesterol, uric acid, creatinine, excess sugar, etc.). In this method, superficial micro scratches are applied to the skin and then place the suction cups. It restores iron deficiency (by slowing down the leakage of iron and stimulating its digestive absorption after the session), it increases the hemoglobin level (often low in case of anemia), it restores and normalizes the level of platelets, it lowers blood sugar, creatinine, uric acid and cholesterol levels. It increases the level of white blood cells, it also stimulates the veino-lymphatic circulation, by regulating the activity of the thymus.