Effect of Blood Cupping on Some Biochemical Parameter

Objective: Blood cupping as an accepted therapeutic practice preferred sometimes for its safety, effectiveness use and faraway of manufactured drugs toxicity. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of blood cupping on some serum biochemical parameters. Subjects and Methods: This study was a randomized controlled trial included 60 healthy subjects, aged between 18 to 50 years and were randomly assigned and subjected to blood cupping. Venous blood was collected and routine blood biochemical assessment was performed once at the baseline time of blood cupping and then 10 days after cupping. Result: There was significant difference in the reduction of blood pressure 10 days after blood cupping compared with the baseline in both systolic (p 0.05) and diastolic (p 0.01). On the same line, there was a substantial significant decrease in serum total cholesterol (p 0.01), triglycerides (TG) (p 0.001) and low density lipoproteins (LDL) (p 0.05) and an enhanced serum high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels (p 0.05). In addition, serum creatinine levels (p 0.05) and uric acid (p 0.01) were significantly reduced after cupping compared to the baseline levels, meanwhile blood urea and glucose levels were non-significantly decreased by 15% and 7%, respectively. Conclusion: These data suggest that blood cupping is a technique might be associated with decreased risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity and enhanced and improved kidney function test.