The cupping operation must
be done before the breakfast. The Messenger of God (cpth)
said, “Cupping before breakfast is optimal, and it has cure and
benediction.”
It is forbidden
for a person to be cupped to take in any morsel whatsoever in the morning of
cupping, but to remain fasting until it is performed upon him. He is permitted
to drink a cup of coffee or tea for the sugar it contains is little and it does
not need complicated digestive operations which stir
the blood, activate the blood circulation, affect the blood pressure, and the
heart beats. Also this little quantity of tea or
coffee contains a simple nerve stimulant which makes the person undergo cupping
in a wakeful case.
For this reason
the Prophet (cpth) prohibited eating before applying
cupping for it activates the digestive system and the blood circulation in
order to recompense the digestive operations which lead to the increase in
heart beats, blood flow, and a high blood pressure. This case will move the
precipitated residues of the sluggish and retired blood in the superficial and
deep blood vessels and capillaries in the region of the upper back (these
unwanted materials of blood gather during sleeping). Also
blood flow is activated during the distribution of the digested nutrients in
order to feed the body tissues. Such a situation does not fit cupping.
If cupping is performed in similar
condition, the blood isn’t filtered by this operation
(Cupping), so the withdrawn blood is the working blood (not the spoiled blood
which is full of impurities as dead red blood cells and R.B. cell ghosts …) and
we have lost the expected benefit from cupping. In this case, the cupped person
will also suffer from slight vertigo or syncope as a result
of the insufficient quantity of blood which irrigates the brain.