History of Cupping
Cupping was old as history and it was a divine nomistic norm applied by the venerated prophets and they recommended people to practise it. The Arab Messenger (Communication with Al’lah and Peace are through him) resuscitated the procedures of cupping after being forgotten for a long time. He directed its application according to its original rules. He was so virtuous in enacting cupping for moslems and the whole world. But on the elapse of many centuries on the Transfer of the Arab Messenger (CPTH), the rules of cupping were gradually forgotten due to negligence, dereliction and abstention until those rules were obliterated and lost except some few ones. There were certainly some sinful hands that foisted much lies in it until people abstained from using it and forgot it completely. It was true that few people practised it, but unluckily they did not get use of it, or they did not get benefit of it at all until people dislaimed it for they did not get its promising benefit. Another cause of negligence was due to inability to execute cupping within its set rules These rules were lost and died. People used to perform cupping in winter and summer,or after physical toil and fatigue, or after breakfast though nothing to be taken in before the cupping operation. The late savant Syrian Arab, Mohammad Ameen Sheikho revived the norn (sunna) in its precise rules which were mentioned in his book.
He revealed its rules and put them in their exact place on the human body for application. He also put forth the general secret of its healing mechanism which said “to rid one`s self from impure blood”. He returned this medical therapeutic art to its effective scientific role and disclosed its rules and priniciples to his acquaintances, relatives and friends. In turn, they informed their acquaintances, relatives, friends and neighbours and all the people until it spread in many countries and even all people. When people gained great physical, psychological and feasible benefits, they increased in number in using it during the last years. They realized marvels in curing hopeless diseases of the era as cancer, paralysis, angin pectoris,hemophelia, migraine, and the like.