EFFECT OF WET CUPPING (AL-HIJAMAH) ON COAGULATION PROFILE AMONG DIABETIC MELLITUS AND HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS IN KHARTOUM STATE
Mujtaba Khalid Musa, Nibras Altayeb Abd Alslam, Salma Adel Yousif, Sanaa Hashim Suleiman, Abuzar Elnager
ABSTRACT
Background: Al-Hijamah therapy is the prophetic medicines in which the cups were to withdraw the blood from the body for therapeutic purposes. Objective: This study aimed to determine the effect of Al-Hijamah on coagulation profile among diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertensive patients in Khartoum state. Methodology: A total of (66) DM and hypertensive patients were participated in this study. Three (3) ml venous blood was collected into tri sodium citrate from each subject at four period of times (before, immediate after cupping, after one week and after two weeks of wet cupping), then was centrifuged for 15 min to obtain platelet poor plasma (PPP). The APTT, PT and fibrinogen were measured using Coagulometer (biobase–Spain). The data was analyzed using RM ANOVA and paired t test. Results: The results for DM patients showed there were slight increased of PT and APTT within different period of time after blood collection and statistically insignificant (p > 0.05). The fibrinogen level showed increasing among DM and statistically insignificant (p>0.166). The results for hypertensive patients showed there were insignificant reduction of APTT and insignificant increasing of PT according to time of blood collection (p>0.05). The fibrinogen result showed significant decreasing according to time of blood collection (p<0.001) which indicated the positive effect of Al-Hijamah. Conclusion: This is study concluded that the APTT, PT and fibrinogen level were within the normal range of normal subjects which might indicated that the Al-Hijamah has positive effect among DM and hypertensive patients and there is no side effect on patients.
Keywords: Cupping, DM, Hypertensive PT and APTT.
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