How to beat cholesterol!

Wet cupping or Hijama is the way out for a healthy heart

BY ZAHID H JAVALI
For the longest time, no matter what I did, my cholesterol was always 10% above the borderline mark. I ate oatmeal for three months and checked my lipid profile again. The blood test did show an improvement albeit a minor one.

One day, someone recommended ‘Hijama’ or ‘wet cupping’. The hijama practitioner essentially drains out the thick blood inside your body using small glass cups. The first point of application is always your back. He heats up your back by keeping a hot water bottle. Once enough blood has rushed to this area, he pin pricks your back and makes tiny incisions, so the thick blood can ooze out and collects in the glass cup fixed to your back. The scene is bloody and there is pain when the pricking happens, but it’s not much. Those who hate the sight of blood will not get to see it since everything is happening behind their back.

I had gone for this technique to fix my decade-long lower back issue. Though those issues remained, the cholesterol has been normal ever since. I recommend Hijama highly just for this. Ofcourse, there is another school of thought that there is no such thing as good or bad cholesterol. That all cholesterol is good and it all depends on your level of physical activity. While the jury is still out on that, it’s best to be safe than sorry. Just pick a good wet cupping or ‘hijama’ centre and get yourself insured. Then again, there’s no guarantee that you won’t get a heart attack because your cholesterol is normal. All of that is in the hands of god. But you can do what is at your command. In this case, it’s wet cupping.

If you prefer a bloodless therapy, try out dry cupping.

P.S: This article is for information only and does not purport to be medical advice.