What is it about?
Wet cupping therapy is a traditional application which has been used for centuries in different indications.This trial has investigated its efficacy on oxidative stress. It has been concluded that wet cupping therapy increased antioxidants and decreased oxidative stress.
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Why is it important?
Our study revealed the antioxidant capacity of wet cupping therapy. This is a new indication for the application of wet cupping and furthermore it may illuminate the mechanisms of various clinical benefits observed in different interventional studies with wet cupping therapy.
Perspectives
These results suggests that wet cupping therapy may exert prophylactic and therapeutic effects on several pathologies induced by free radicals, a finding rather interesting and a good starting point for studies in larger scales.
Assist. Prof. Suleyman Ersoy
Karabuk Universitesi
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This page is a summary of: Investigation of wet cupping therapy’s effect on oxidative stress based on biochemical parameters, European Journal of Integrative Medicine, September 2019, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.eujim.2019.100946.
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