A HEALTHY New Year from Ahealth.co.uk!
I would like to wish you a Healthy 2009 (on the premise that Health is the Ultimate Wealth and Source of Happiness)!
Looking back, we all ran the Wealth Rat Race for the past 10 years or so, and at the end of it all, most are none the better off than when we started all those years ago.
And it's going to get worse we are told:
2009 is predicted to be the Year of the Meltdown of all those cardboard-box skyscrapers that we all rushed around to build in our quest for Happiness via the Wealth route! It appears that was all in vain and at detriment to our Health. The coming year is expected to cause even more stress to our collective mental and physical health.
Sorry for turning philisophical and poetic, but I on a personal note have decided to have no more of it - I hope you have too. After years of overwork and a sedentary unhealthy lifestyle, I have had to do a major rethink of my priorities, especially as for the past year or so I have developed a strange 'excessive burping' condition in my stomach / digestive system.
This has led to researching the alternative therapy of cupping and the setting up of this blog which you are now reading.
So moving on to my New Year Resolution:
As Wealth (as we know it) has finally melted away and all but evaporated, my personal mission in 2009 and beyond is to reclaim my Health (and yours!) via natural means (or as is more commonly known, 'alternative medicine'), including but not limited to Cupping.
And talking of Cupping and other Therapies, here is something I have recently learnt:
What is the link between Cupping and Acupuncture (apart from the coincidental 'cup' in A'cup'uncture)?
Well it seems cupping (or hijama as known in the Arab / Muslim world - or Bekam if you are Malaysian) is actually descended from Acupuncture which is part of Chinese medicine.
And what's the proof of that, you may ask: Well both therapies seem to be using the Energy Meridians theory of the body, and both therapies seem to be using the acupoints (as they are known)on these meridians.
Well that has flummoxed me somewhat further now: Firstly it was about trying to understand the highly mysterious therapy of cupping, which I finally figured out (or so I think), is like an Oil-change and a Direct Detox for the Human Body.
Now I have to deal with understanding why needles are stuck into the body and how they are supposedly re-aligning and balancing the energy in the body (known in Chinese as Qi)!
As if understanding cupping wasn't a mission enough!
Secondly, while there seem to be ample acupuncture clinics in our towns and our high streets (I am talking about England here), there don't seem to be any cupping clinics around (although said acupuncture clinics also provide cupping treatments, albeit the less painful and bloodless 'dry' version of it).*
* Dry-cupping involves suction via cups, but excludes blood removal which is done in Wet-cupping by making small incisions at the site of the suction.
So to summarise my plans for 2009:
1) Understand Cupping
2) Understand how Acupuncture works (and how it links to cupping)!
3) Locate a Cupping Clinic in UK (or anywhere in the world)
4) And if no Cupping Clinic exists in UK, then create one (ie arrange a permanent venue, find the therapists, and then find the patients)!
5) And finally find a better name for Cupping Clinics so that it has a similar ring to "Acupuncture Clinic", since Cupping seems to sound confusing to a lot of people (don't you think?). Cups of coffee often come to mind, although I'm sure we WILL be providing free green herbal teas at this future-clinic.
How about we change it to Cupupuncture (since cups are used then the skin is 'punctured') or even Detosuction since it's like a Detox using Suction via cups?
Anyone looking to visit a Cupupuncture Detosuction Clinic soon? Then watch this space.
What do you think? And what is your New Year Resolution? What health concerns do you currently have in your life? Please share your thoughts via a comment below.
Also if want to come on this journey of natural 'alternative' healing therapies in 2009, then please leave your name and email address above (if you already haven't done so) so I can alert you whenever I post new information.
Thanks
Shuaib
PS: This post went somewhat longer than I expected. However if it was useful and interesting then again please leave a comment to that effect (or otherwise!), so that with your feedback, I can improve on my future posts, thanks.
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Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu,
ReplyDeleteI offer hijama therapy to sisters in the privacy of their homes. Alhamdulillah I have completed training and have an authenticated certificate of completion from 'Ibn Sina For Cupping', Madina, Saudi Arabia.
Umm Husamuddin, Manchester.
Mobile: via email
Email: hijamatherapy@hotmail.co.uk
Salams Umm Husamuddin
ReplyDeleteThank you for this info which female blog readers (especially in the Manchester area, unless of course you also travel to other cities), will find useful to know that there is a female therapist that they can contact.
For the benefit of our readers, what particular illnesses/ conditions (if any), do you specialise/had the most experience in?
And do you find that in your experience, the conditions/illnesses that you have come across respond well to hijama therapy? And if so, what are they?
Also what would you say about using hijama as a general preventative therapy (which by getting rid of bad blood/ toxins in the body may help prevent conditions like high cholesterol/ heart disease / cancer in the long term)? And how often would you recommend this (once a month? once/twice a year?)
Thanks again for any advice you can give on this.
Shuaib
UPDATE:
ReplyDeleteUmm Husamuddin has kindly agreed to shortly author a guest-post entitled: "An Introduction to Hijama by a practising therapist". So watch this space (or leave your name & email address above right-hand side so I can alert you by email)!
Shuaib