To Apply Cupping operation
you have to consider four appointed times:
The Messenger (cpth)
said: “How good the wont in cupping is!”
Thus, it is usually
performed from year to year for both the healthy and the patient. It is
a prophylaxis for the healthy and a medicine (treatment) and a protection
(prophylaxis) for the patient.
The Messenger (cpth)
said, “Relieve yourselves from the intensity of heat by cupping.”
Therefore cupping must be
performed before the summer season because heat is most intense at this time of
the year. Hence the best season is the spring.
Cupping must be
performed every year in the spring season, namely in April and May (In
Syria and other countries around it).
Before giving the scientific
interpretation of this appointed time (its physiological effect on our bodies),
we must give a simple glimpse about the function of the blood in regulating the
animal heat.
As it is known
water constitutes the maximum proportion in the blood, (90%) of its plasma.
Since water has basic properties that differentiate it from other liquids known
in nature, these properties make water the best assistant liquid to help
regulating the animal heat in a living being. This property has a high faculty
of storing heat than any other liquid or solid material. Therefore it stores
the heat it receives in its passage through the more active
and warm tissues and carries it to other tissues of less warmth in its
movement through the various parts of the body. Therefore
blood has (the proportion of water in its formation and its round trip in the
tissues of the body) a high faculty in transmitting heat higher than any other
faculty of various tissues in the body. Therefore
blood is the first recipient and the first main influenced tissue by the
outside heat (of all the body tissues) which is effective on the body. It sucks
heat from the body tissues to transport it to the less warm ones, and vice versa it sucks coolness from the body tissues to transport
it to the warm ones.
In view of the continuous blood
circulation, it acts in regulating the animal heat by warming the cool parts or
cooling the warm parts until the animal heat remains constant. The chance for
cupping is realized two times in the year, i.e. in April and in May, and
perhaps a third time in late of March if the warmth comes at the end of it with
only the decrease of the crescent.
In this time of the spring, we trace the
lunar month until it becomes the 17th day of it, and then one can undergo
cupping operation in one of these days (from the seventeenth day until the
twenty-seven day inclusive).
If he misses the first month, the advent
of the (17th) of the next lunar month (in which cupping is permissible), he can
also make up for the chance. Naturally, there are some
irregular years when April is also intensive in chilliness, then we must
wait until May, or we could perhaps perform the cupping operation in April.
If the (17) of the lunar month in April
has cold weather, we wait until the weather becomes moderate and warm during
the period of this lunar month (17-27) then we start cupping. Therefore, the matter is limited by the general rule which we
cannot overcome for it is springtime (April, May and perhaps late of March and
the early of June) from the seventeenth day until the twenty-seventh day of the
lunar month exclusively depending on the rise in temperature in March and the
drop of it at the beginning of June if both changes occur along with the
decrease of the lunar month. In this way, we get use of one-third of the
year to perform the cupping operation.
The Messenger of God (cpth) said, “Cupping is most detestable at the beginning
of the crescent, but it is curing when the full moon begins to decrease.”
Therefore, we must follow up the
recommendation of the Messenger (cpth) on the lunar
month when the time of the annual cupping comes (springtime in its two months,
April and May).
For example, when April comes we follow up the progression of the lunar month which
comes in this month (April), and when the seventeenth day of the lunar month
comes, it will certainly be the first day for performing Cupping. Therefore,
cupping starts from the seventeenth day (inclusive) until the twenty-seventh
day (inclusive).
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