Hijama For Migraine Or Headache

Migraines are very serious headaches that can be related to nausea, vomiting, numbness, or tingling sensation. People suffering from migraines also feel irritated to light or sound. Migraine is a neurological condition. Migraines are often hereditary, but sometimes family history cannot be discovered behind the patient who suffers from migraines. It can affect the people of all age groups but are most common in women.
Migraine occurs when there is an inadequate supply of blood to the brain. That is why they are also known as vascular headaches. Whenever someone experiences the beginning of the stress or tension, the muscles at the base of the skull get shrink and hence blocked the supply of blood to the brain. The vessels in the brain expand as to compensate for lack of blood and oxygen supply to the brain. These expanded vessels apply pressure on nerves, this causes severe pain or migraine.
Migraine headaches are so disturbing that a person suffering from this withdraws from all activities that he or she is engaged with and choose segregation. The person suffering from migraine becomes aggressive due to disturbance or discomfort that occurs during a migraine.

SYMPTOMS OF MIGRAINE:-

There are some symptoms that occur before an actual migraine attack. These can include.

1. Distraction in thinking or paying attention.
2. Seeing unusual lines or light.
3. Numbness in face or hand.
4. Feels different types of smell or taste.
5. Constipation.
6. Depression.
7. Irritability.

TREATING MIGRAINE:-
The physician or neurologist can provide a person with better medicines to get relief from migraine pain. A person suffering from migraines needs to change and manage the lifestyle to reduce the frequency of migraine attacks. At the same time, a holistic approach to treat migraines is also common and helpful.

HIJAMA FOR TREATING MIGRAINE:-
Migraine or headaches are among the many troubles that have counter well to hijama or cupping therapy. Patients who undergo with such a type of treatment-experienced remarkable relief from the vigor and recurrence of headaches that they have experienced for years. Hijama or Cupping Therapy is a form of non-invasive therapy. Hijama or Cupping Therapy helps in reducing the intensity of migraines or headaches effectively. Considering Hijama or Cupping Therapy in an account, different study groups held many studies on it. Many doctors and medical students came to the conclusion that hijama has a positively and effectively worked on migraines. The best time to take cupping treatment on oneself as per to the Sunnah is 17, 19, 21 of each Hijrah (Muslim month).

The cups that are used in the treatment are made up of soft material like silicone. The professional cupping therapist applies some natural ointment, and then applies cups. These ointments produce lubrication which helps cups to slide around easily. This type of cupping is also known as gliding or massages cupping. The cups are applied on the face, forehead, and neck which create suction. These results in relaxing muscles and increasing the supply of blood. Now the therapist slides the cups all over the face like forehead, cheekbones, and under the eyes. The cups also glide over the left and right carotid. Hijama or wet cupping is very effective in the treatment of migraine. But people who scared of scars on the face can go for Dry Cupping or Massage Cupping instead of Wet Cupping.

PROOF OF HIJAMA OR CUPPING THERAPY ON MIGRAINE OR HEADACHES:
Many studies have been regulated to show the effectiveness of Hijama or Cupping Therapy on migraines. These studies gave some positive results about Hijama or Cupping Therapy. A study held by The American Journal Of Chinese Medicine on 70 patients in a control group, showed that two-thirds of the patients felt a reduction in the intensity of their migraine or headaches also slow down. A study has been held in 2010, by the World Family Medicine Journal on the patients suffering from migraine or headache. These patients experienced that there were less severe headaches after Cupping Therapy.

PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES:
Before performing Hijama on Migraine patient, great care, and safety precautions have to be taken, such as:-
1. Sterilization is a very important aspect that should be kept in mind before performing Hijama or Cupping. Cups, surgical blades, etc. should be sterilized from time to time.
2. Use cups that are suitable for the area that has to be treated.
3. Clean and shave the area that has to be treated before applying cups.
4. Apply a thin layer of any natural ointment on the rims of the cups.
5. If the patient is suffering from fever than he or she should not get cupping.
6. The therapist should take into account any medical history of the patient like tension, headache, any head injury in the past, any head surgery that had been taken place in the past, cervical spondylitis, brain tumor, or any other headache disorder, etc. before performing Hijama or Cupping for migraines.
7. The therapist should clean and wash their hand and forearms with hand wash or soap and dry them with clean and disposable towels.
8. The process of cupping should be done for not more than 15 minutes on the area that has to be treated.
9. The patient should avoid taking any blood-thinning drug 24 hours prior to cupping.
10. If the patient is diabetic he or she should get their blood glucose in level before performing Hijama or Cupping Therapy.
11. The therapist should withdraw cups, if the patient shows any discomfort symptoms like pain, itching, etc.
12. Cupping should be avoided on the cut, inflamed, swollen, bruised, or ulcerated skin.
13. Extra cares have to be taken while performing incision with a blade on the skin and do not cut any vein or artery.
14. Do not apply cups on the patient who is tired, too hungry or too full.
15. Use disposable gloves while performing Hijama or Cupping.
At Fatima Hijama Centre, our team of professional therapists takes all the above precautionary measures into account before performing Hijama or Cupping on the patient.