Almaiman Amer A
Department of Applied Medical Sciences, Community College of Unaizah, Qassim University, Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail.
Saudi Med J. 2018 Jan;39(1):10-16. doi: 10.15537/smj.2018.1.21212.
Wet cupping (Al-hijamah) is a therapeutic technique practiced worldwide as a part of the Unani system of medicine. It involves bloodletting from acupoints on a patient's skin to produce a therapeutic outcome. A thorough review of research articles on wet cupping with relevance to proteomics field that are indexed by Google Scholar, PubMed, and/or Science Direct databases was performed. Eight original research articles were summarized in this paper. Overall, wet cupping did not have a significant effect on C-reactive protein, Hsp-27, sister chromatid exchanges, and cell replication index. In contrast, wet cupping was found to produce higher oxygen saturation, eliminate lactate from subcutaneous tissues, remove blood containing higher levels of malondialdehyde and nitric oxide, and produce higher activity of myeloperoxidase. The proteomic effects of wet cupping therapy have not been adequately investigated. Thus, future studies on wet cupping that use systemic and sound protocols to avoid bias should be conducted.
湿拔罐（Al-hijamah）是一种作为尤纳尼医学体系一部分在全球范围内应用的治疗技术。它涉及从患者皮肤上的穴位放血以产生治疗效果。对谷歌学术、PubMed和/或科学Direct数据库索引的与蛋白质组学领域相关的湿拔罐研究文章进行了全面综述。本文总结了八篇原创研究文章。总体而言，湿拔罐对C反应蛋白、热休克蛋白27、姐妹染色单体交换和细胞复制指数没有显著影响。相比之下，发现湿拔罐可产生更高的氧饱和度，消除皮下组织中的乳酸，去除含有较高水平丙二醛和一氧化氮的血液，并产生更高的髓过氧化物酶活性。湿拔罐疗法的蛋白质组学效应尚未得到充分研究。因此，未来应开展使用系统且合理方案以避免偏差的湿拔罐研究。
