Sooo .. this would simply BE .. 'wet cupping' .. ? .. very old system
of bloodletting .. ching and chang kinda stuff ..

http://skepdic.com/cupping.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijama

http://www.myanmar.gov.mm/Article/Article2004/July/july31.html

<<snip>>
The procedure involves collection of 200 ml (approximately one cup of
water) every week for 6 consecutive weeks to reduce the iron content
and followed by maintenance phase where phlebotomy of same amount was
carried Out every month.
During the induction period 200 ml of phlebotomy will be carried Out
every 2 weeks during the first 24 weeks.
During maintenance phase 200 ml of phlebotomy will be done every 3
months for the next 12 months.
A clinical trial is in progress at the DMR with promising results.
After completion of the trial the standard operation procedures will
be established. DMR is also providing help to those who need
phlebotomy.
The procedure could be adopted by various hospitals in Myanmar.
The cost of such therapy is very minimal and affordable by the
majority of patients.
The beneficial effects of phlebotomy could be extended to extra-
hepatitis manifestations of hepatitis C infection.
Hilzenrat and his colleagues from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Israel, demonstrated that phlebotomy improved extrahepatic
manifestations of HCV infection namely myalgia and seronegative
nonerosive symmetrical polyarthritis. Professor Okada from the Okayama
University, Japan, a famous pathologist, suggested that based on the
pathophysiological basis of the disease process, the benefits of
phlebotomy could also be applicable to patients with hepatitis B virus
infection. Research work is underway which could lead to particle
application in the near future.
<<snip>>

Hmmm ..

http://www.healthmeanswealth.co.uk/

<<snip>>
Is cupping (hijama) a cure for every disease?

Cupping (hijama) is a cure for every disease by Allah's permission.
<<snip>>

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http://www.sil.si.edu/SmithsonianContributions/HistoryTechnology/text/SSHT-0041.txt

Cupping
"Cupping is an art," wrote the London cupper
Samuel Bayfield in 1823, "the value of which every
one can appreciate who has had opportunities of
being made acquainted with its curative power by
observing its effects on the person of others, or by
realizing them in his own." ^7 The curious opera-
tion of taking blood by means of exhausted cups
had been part of Western medicine since the time
of Hippocrates, and has been found in many other
cultures as well. It is still practiced in some parts
of the world today.

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