http://www.zhijama.co.uk

kindly
we are trying to help regulate this field

http://www.aidsonline.com/pt/re/aids/fulltext.00002030-200407020-00019.htm;jsessionid=JG8PTvmDwpjMT0vLfgvnnvwFCPNWnDjtxvYqrhhgBWd1wpyJSHRr!136317464!181195628!8091!-1

A good article on leeches (microsurgery) and maggots (wound healing), historically and contemporaneously by a Muslim Egyptian Dr Aisha El-Awady which was originally published at Islam online:
http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2003/july/leech.htm
Also deals with the “yuck factor” and tickling.

But we do not cut skin , it’s something new to me.
CUPPING is believed to be a traditional, out-dated procedure but is now coming back once we are losing trust in antibiotics. Today, you can buy the cups at the chemist’s and you can administer them to you child without scaring him or her to death because the cups (cupping glasses) are equipped with a small pump to make vacuum so there’s no need to use an open flame. My sister’s child was ill for a couple of weeks and her GP advised her to try the cupping treatment and it helped and they did not have to use antibiotics.

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Thanks for the interesting post. We are a group of people in Leicester England who are interested in this therapy, which I would personally describe as the “oil-change for the human-body” or “fastest and most direct detox known to humankind”.

We are looking for local experienced therapists for this therapy (not an easy task!) and we have therefore set up a blog-site to promote and relay more information on the therapy as and when we find it: http://www.ahealth.co.uk.

The way I see it, and especially in the modern world of today, a lot of toxins, carcinogens (have I said this word correctly?) and dead blood cells and waste build up in our bodies and is floating around in our blood throughout the years of our lives. So as a preventative detox therapy, forget all the fancy diets (which mostly fail to work!), what could be a faster and more direct method (although admittedly slightly painful) than going direct into the body and sucking out the “bad guys’?

I have it done about 4 years ago in Makkah, twice in UK with a Br Abdul Hakeem from London, and just last Sunday with another local therapist that I located recently called Adel Abu Aasem! I feel much lighter and better for it (maybe it’s just psychological – ‘placebo’ effect I believe it’s called!)!

Obviously the big concern remains that whether the ‘barber-surgeons’ you saw in Saudi Arabia practice hygiene or not, however if this therapy (which is now recognised in some circles as a valid complementary therapy – see: http://www.naturalhealthnaturesfinest.co.uk who actually teach the therapy!), was carried out in a clinical environment where hygiene / infection fears are non-existent, then surely it would rank as:

“The fastest and most direct detox known to humankind!!”

If you want to receive more information on this, please leave your email address on our newish blogsite:
http://www.ahealth.co.uk …
… and we will update you as we go along!

Oh and if you have some information on this (that we might not be aware of), please feel free to share it via a comment, or if substantial, we would be happy to have you as a guest contributor to our blog.

Thanks

Shuaib