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The effect of wet-cupping therapy (hijama) in modulating autoimmune activity of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

A pilot controlled study

Amal M. Obeid, Faiza A. Qari, Soad K. Aljaouni, Sawsan Rohaiem, Ahmed A. Elsayed, Maha M. Alsayyad and Ezzuddin A. Okmi
Saudi Medical Journal January 2022, 43 (1) 45-52; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.1.20210755
Amal M. Obeid
From the Department of YAJ chair for Prophetic medical applications (Obeid, Alsayyad), Cupping Therapy Clinics; from the Department of Hematology (Aljaouni), Yousef Abdulatif Jameel Scientific Chair of Prophetic Medicine Application, from the Department of Medicine (Qari); from the Department of Physiology (Rohaiem); From the Faculty of Medicine (Alsayyad), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, from the Department of Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (Okmi), Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Radiology (Elsayed), The Royal Wolverhampton Trust, New Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
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Faiza A. Qari
From the Department of YAJ chair for Prophetic medical applications (Obeid, Alsayyad), Cupping Therapy Clinics; from the Department of Hematology (Aljaouni), Yousef Abdulatif Jameel Scientific Chair of Prophetic Medicine Application, from the Department of Medicine (Qari); from the Department of Physiology (Rohaiem); From the Faculty of Medicine (Alsayyad), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, from the Department of Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (Okmi), Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Radiology (Elsayed), The Royal Wolverhampton Trust, New Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
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Soad K. Aljaouni
From the Department of YAJ chair for Prophetic medical applications (Obeid, Alsayyad), Cupping Therapy Clinics; from the Department of Hematology (Aljaouni), Yousef Abdulatif Jameel Scientific Chair of Prophetic Medicine Application, from the Department of Medicine (Qari); from the Department of Physiology (Rohaiem); From the Faculty of Medicine (Alsayyad), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, from the Department of Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (Okmi), Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Radiology (Elsayed), The Royal Wolverhampton Trust, New Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
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Sawsan Rohaiem
From the Department of YAJ chair for Prophetic medical applications (Obeid, Alsayyad), Cupping Therapy Clinics; from the Department of Hematology (Aljaouni), Yousef Abdulatif Jameel Scientific Chair of Prophetic Medicine Application, from the Department of Medicine (Qari); from the Department of Physiology (Rohaiem); From the Faculty of Medicine (Alsayyad), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, from the Department of Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (Okmi), Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Radiology (Elsayed), The Royal Wolverhampton Trust, New Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
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Ahmed A. Elsayed
From the Department of YAJ chair for Prophetic medical applications (Obeid, Alsayyad), Cupping Therapy Clinics; from the Department of Hematology (Aljaouni), Yousef Abdulatif Jameel Scientific Chair of Prophetic Medicine Application, from the Department of Medicine (Qari); from the Department of Physiology (Rohaiem); From the Faculty of Medicine (Alsayyad), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, from the Department of Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (Okmi), Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Radiology (Elsayed), The Royal Wolverhampton Trust, New Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
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Maha M. Alsayyad
From the Department of YAJ chair for Prophetic medical applications (Obeid, Alsayyad), Cupping Therapy Clinics; from the Department of Hematology (Aljaouni), Yousef Abdulatif Jameel Scientific Chair of Prophetic Medicine Application, from the Department of Medicine (Qari); from the Department of Physiology (Rohaiem); From the Faculty of Medicine (Alsayyad), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, from the Department of Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (Okmi), Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Radiology (Elsayed), The Royal Wolverhampton Trust, New Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
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Ezzuddin A. Okmi
From the Department of YAJ chair for Prophetic medical applications (Obeid, Alsayyad), Cupping Therapy Clinics; from the Department of Hematology (Aljaouni), Yousef Abdulatif Jameel Scientific Chair of Prophetic Medicine Application, from the Department of Medicine (Qari); from the Department of Physiology (Rohaiem); From the Faculty of Medicine (Alsayyad), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, from the Department of Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (Okmi), Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Radiology (Elsayed), The Royal Wolverhampton Trust, New Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
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vol. 43 no. 1 45-52
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.1.20210755
PubMed 
35022283

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received September 29, 2021
  • Accepted November 23, 2021
  • Published online January 11, 2022.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

Author Information

  1. Amal M. Obeid, MD,
  2. Faiza A. Qari, MD,
  3. Soad K. Aljaouni, MD,
  4. Sawsan Rohaiem, MD,
  5. Ahmed A. Elsayed, MD,
  6. Maha M. Alsayyad, MD and
  7. Ezzuddin A. Okmi, MD⇑
  1. From the Department of YAJ chair for Prophetic medical applications (Obeid, Alsayyad), Cupping Therapy Clinics; from the Department of Hematology (Aljaouni), Yousef Abdulatif Jameel Scientific Chair of Prophetic Medicine Application, from the Department of Medicine (Qari); from the Department of Physiology (Rohaiem); From the Faculty of Medicine (Alsayyad), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, from the Department of Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (Okmi), Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the Department of Radiology (Elsayed), The Royal Wolverhampton Trust, New Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ezzuddin A. Okmi, Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control Department, Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: dr.e_okmi{at}hotmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2634-3143
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Saudi Medical Journal Jan 2022, 43 (1) 45-52; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2022.43.1.20210755
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