Hijama for the treatment of migraine - a testimonial

Hijama for the treatment of migraine - a testimonial by a patient of Darul Hijama Cupping Therapy

"I had been suffering from regular migraine attacks for twenty years. Some of my symptoms included intense pain on either one side or the back of my head, and sometimes throbbing pain behind one of my eyes.


When I experienced these symptoms, I became disabled, rendered useless and bed-bound. The intense pain was unbearable, as the symptoms also included flashing lights, high temperature in my head, nausea and severe vomiting for up to three days. 

These attacks would occur randomly from once a month to 4 – 5 times a week, lasting up to three days and nights. After each attack, I would lie down in a dark room for hours on end, with my life completely on hold until the attack subsided.

Sometimes I would find relief in medication, but that was only periodic. My body would find a way to become immune to the high doses of painkillers I would take just to numb the pain in my head.

I realised after some time spent observing that there were many variations that triggered a migraine attack. These included the weather, my sleeping pattern, stress, excitement, hormones, certain smells, hydration, skipping meals and some foods (dairy, nuts and high sugar content).

For years I took daily anti depressants and triptans for my migraines, until very recently, when a family friend introduced me to Hijama Cupping therapy. Initially I was sceptical and reluctant to try it, as no medication had cured me of my illness so far. I finally decided to try blood cupping, after a rather distressing migraine attack I was up for giving anything a go.

During the session cups were applied to my head, neck, shoulders and along my back. My first session revealed literally no blood stasis from my head, with only minimal from my back and neck. Even so after my session I felt a relief and a weight lift off my head and off my shoulders. I had only two attacks that month, that were triggered by hormones. I soon realised certain foods and lifestyle changes no longer threatened my health.

So far I have attended four cupping sessions, with a three week interval between each one. Alhamdulillah the more I go, the more blood stasis is revealed. 

I am now at a point where I get maybe one migraine attack a month. 

I hadn’t eaten Ice-cream in 18 years and after my first session I was able to have my first bowl.

Thanks to cupping therapy I can now stop worrying about when my next attack will occur. For once I am able to take care of my children and family rather than them taking care of me. It is the only remedy which has been able to relieve me of my migraines after trying everything the doctors had to offer for over twenty years. I would recommend this to anyone as it is a hundred percent safe and pain free. I owe my new life to Darul Hijama Cupping therapy.

- Sameeha Mangera

FEATURED HIJAMA THERAPISTS:

Darul Hijama Cupping Therapy

CONTACT DETAILS:

150 Blackburn Road

Bolton

BL1 8DR

07590977293

darulhijama@hotmail.co.uk

www.facebook.com/darulhijama

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Our thanks to Sameeha Mangera a patient of Darul Hijama Cupping Therapy Clinic in Bolton for sharing the above post. If you have any questions or want to leave some feedback for her, then please do so via a comment* below.

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Case Study: Hijama for the management of Migraine by Dr Nazri Nizar

Hijama for the management of Migraine - a case study by Dr Nazri Nizar

The following is a hijama case study kindly contributed by Dr Nazri Nizar, a male cupping therapist from Colombo, Sri Lanka

A migraine is a severe, excruciating pain, lasting for hours or even days. In most cases, the symptom often precede / accompanied by a kind of sensory sign such as flashes of light, tingling in the arms and legs, vomiting, sensitivity to light and sound etc.

Patient Name: Johanna from Germany
Age: 28
Sex: Female
Place of treatment: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Case History: The patient has been suffering from Migraine since the age of 5 years. Stress was the likely cause that triggered a kind of emotional stress, due to frequent argument and fisticuffs between the parents. As a result the patient, who was a child at that time, having witnessed these flare ups, grew up in an hostile environment not conducive to a peaceful living background. Here we have to analyze the patient’s psychological state of mind which was in a highly disturbed state. Again Stress is the likely cause which subsequently converted to migraine over the period of time, is also linked with improper and untimely food intake or consuming too much junk food, child often being neglected due to mother being traumatized etc.

The patient has sought treatment regularly in her native Germany for the Migraine where she has undergone MRI scanning and other check-ups and continued on medication with little success. Later having moved to Abu Dhabi, she was advised by a collegue to try Kerala Ayurveda Therapy which was often in the form of oil head massage which gave her temporary relief but the symptoms remained intact. Her condition aggravated further due to stomach ulcer, blind spots, lack of sleep etc.

Treatment:
First of all after seeking Almighty Allaah’s blessings, The patient was advised to have her food early. Later in the evening, the patient was made to sit so as to carry out physical checks on nerve activity to ascertain the right place to administer Hijama.

After the hijama therapy was over, the patient was given a head massage using herbal oil for 20 minutes which proved to be very beneficial. The patient showed a sense of relief and told me that she felt as if a big boulder was removed from her head. Al Hamdu Lillaah, It is Allaah who decrees the cure.

After a period of two months, the patient had a recurrence of the migraine and on my second visit the same therapy was applied. Al Hamdu Lillaah ever since the second therapy was administered the patient has fully recovered and no recurrence of migraine so far. In her last communication with me in March 2010, she has fully recovered from migraine and feeling fine.

Al Hamdu Lillaah.

Dr. Nazri Nizar
Colombo, Sri Lanks


FEATURED HIJAMA THERAPIST:
Dr Nazri Nizar

LOCATION
Colombo
Sri Lanka

CONTACT DETAILS:
Website: www.asshifaherbals.com
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Our thanks to Dr Nazri Nizar from Colombo, Sri Lanka for sharing the above post. If you have any questions for Dr Nizar or indeed have been treated by him and want to leave him a testimonial, then please do so via a comment* below.

If you are a hijama therapist or patient and are happy to share your knowledge or experience via a guest blog-post like the one above, please send me an email to: hijama.mail@gmail.com.



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Hijama for the treatment for severe migraines by Br Misbah Ali

Hijama for the treatment for severe migraines

This is a guest-post in the form of a written interview with Br Misbah Ali about his experience of hijama therapy in London, England.

- What condition did you suffer from (if any)?

Severe migranes, drowsiness and fatigue, likely from seher, as was suffering from it during that time.

- What other treatment did you try before trying hijama therapy?

I had tests etc. from doctors, everything seemed ok to them, prescribed me with all these different types of medicine from tablets to little wafers you stick on the tongue and once dissolved apparently help with migraines (they didn't work by the way!)

- Where do you live and where did you go for the hijama therapy?

I live in East London, Newham and I got my hijama done privately from a brother who used to practice hijama on in East London, but he isn't there no more.

- What did the treatment involve?

It involved me being in a room and had to expose my back to apply the cups, I also had cups placed on my neck, in total I think I had about 5-6 cups applied in 1 session, it was a nice experience as I had all these cups applied to me and I looked like a robot (LOL) while I was waiting for the blood etc me and the brother had some nice Islamic discussions and I wasn't even bothered about the cupping blood etc.

- What was the result?

Mashaallah as soon as the treatment was over and he applied antiseptic cream Alhamdullilah it was like all my ailments washed away with the blood that came out of me, I was a bit light headed but I could just tell the migraines and other illnesses were gone Alhamdullilah.

- What was your overall impression of the therapist and his practice?

Hmmm honestly I think the place I performed it at would have failed western health and safety practices but honestly I thought it was ok and I didnt mind getting it done there, the brother Mashaallah was very nice and understood it was my first time so explained EVERY part of the procedure before he done it. Before he makes tiny little cuts on you he told me 'bro this might hurt a little but if it's too much let me know and I will stop' but to be honest 1. I wasn't even scared and 2. They didn't even hurt more like someone placing a pen on your neck and the drawing a line

- How did the therapist get to learn hijama therapy (was it a course he attended or was it something handed down from generation to generation in their family)?

I think he was taught by someone in Yemen or something I cant exactly remember but I know it wasn't at a course or anything. But to be honest I don't really care where he was taught it as long as he did it right and mashallah he did.

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Our thanks to Br Misbah Ali from London, England for sharing the above post. If you have any further questions to ask about his experience, then please do so via a comment* below.

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Abu Yaqoob, a Hijama (Cupping) Therapist in Toronto, Canada

This is a guest-post in the form of a written interview with Abu Yaqoob - a male cupping therapist based in Toronto, Canada.

- Please give us a short introduction about yourself:

As Salam Alaikum

Al Humdulillah I've learned Hijama(cupping) while I was in Egypt from a doctor of natural medicine, and have been helping people with this blessed practice for many years now.

I have my diploma in Natural health with horns, so if you are interested in Hijama please e-mail me abuyaqooob@yahoo.ca. I'm located in Toronto Canada.

- What particular illnesses/ conditions (if any), do you specialise / had the most experience in?

Praise be to Allah and peace and blessings be upon His messenger Muhammad.

Cupping is a blessed medicinal cure for the one who has faith in it, and is especially effective when they have faith in it from the start, and not as a last resort when all else fails as is the case with most people.

I have performed Cupping for many different ailments, but also being a natural health consultant I've found that the ones who try living a healthier lifestyle with regular cupping treatment will get the best results.

- And do you find that in your experience, the conditions/illnesses that you have come across respond well to cupping (hijama) therapy? And if so, what are they?

Well in my experience cupping is a very effective treatment for migraine headaches and high blood pressure, and a person can get cured with just one session, but can also be effective for one with knee or back injuries.

- Also what would you say about using cupping 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?)

The motto of most general natural health consultants is Health is wealth so don't waste yours.

We must know that the companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon Him) were not a people who regularly ate to satiety, but these days people have the least bit of control over their stomachs and as a result causes a great many diseases in their bodies, so a healthy diet with regular fasting and exercise along with cupping especially on the recommended day of the month of the lunar calender i.e. 17, 19 21 will do a body a lot of good.
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FEATURED HIJAMA THERAPIST:
Abu Yaqoob

LOCATION
Toronto
Canada

CONTACT DETAILS:
Email: abuyaqooob@yahoo.ca
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My husband's recent experience of Hijama (Cupping) Therapy

After the last post which was a written interview with a hijama therapist, below is a written interview about a patient of hijama therapy... and a short introduction to a hijama therapist specialising in pain! :

"My husband's recent experience of Hijama (Cupping) Therapy". - By Ameela Farooq from West Yorkshire

What condition does your husband suffer from?

My husband suffers from headache, shoulder and neck pain and a condition called tinnitus.

Where do you live and where did you go for the hijama therapy?

My husband and I live in West Yorkshire and went to Birmingham to see Dr Nagi - we have been twice now.

What did the treatment involve?

Dr Nagi recommended cupping on the top of the head and shoulder area. I was quite surprised at just how little blood came from the shoulder area, and it seemed very thin? However, on the head, quite a lot of congealed blood came out.

What was the result?

My husband felt relief on the head, the headaches went for maybe 5 weeks and then seemed to return. The tinnitus which is gushing sounds in the ear, its actually something to do with the circulation of blood, really didn't improve. Dr. Nagi did say when we left that, he expected the headaches to stop and the noise to improve. Fortunately the headaches did stop but the tinnitus remained. Really there has been no difference in regards to the neck or shoulder area, the pain did not decrease.

What was your overall impression of the therapist and his practice?

Dr Nagi is a helpful and pleasant person, but very busy and appointments are limited. Hygiene was excellent, and he has a nice consultation room. He is very specific regarding what type of hijamah he does, which is basically, the top of the head and shoulder, which is what my husband needed.

How long did the treatment last and how much did it cost?

The initial appointment lasted about 2 hours and the second appointment about 15 minutes. The charge is £30.00.

Overall impression of the therapy?

It has been a beneficial experience, but we are hoping to find someone more local. It was quite a long day driving from West Yorkshire to Birmingham.

Our thanks to Ameela Farooq for sharing her experience of hijama therapy. If you have had hijama done, please share your experience (whether positive or negative!) via a comment* below, thanks .

If you suffer from headache, neck or shoulder pain and want advice or want to arrange treatment, please see below a short introduction from Dr Hussein Nagi in Birmingham together with his contact details
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FEATURED HIJAMA THERAPIST: Dr Hussein Nagi

LOCATION
My address in Birmingham is Linthurst Rd, Blackwell. Bromsgrove B60 1QH, about 45 minutes from Leicester on M42 exit 2.
EXPERIENCE
I have been practicing Hijama for 5 years.
SPECIALTY
I do cupping therapy only for chronic pain e.g. low backache, headache, migraine, whiplash etc as this is my specialty.

Dr Hussein Nagi
Pain Management consultant
City Hospital
Birmingham
hnagi11@hotmail.com
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