During the age of high end prosperity in the medical world one would have to feel little indistinct while accepting the fact through these painful photographs showcases that the ancient tradition of bloodletting is not only still in existence but positively thriving in the streets of Delhi in India. That's not just enough because Mr Ghyas, 79, claims the technique can cure most forms of arthritis, heart disease and even the early stages of blood cancer. Hakim Ghyas' open air clinic outside the city's largest mosque offers treatments for hundreds of patients each day. Irrespective of the fact about rapid advancements in healthcare in India, bloodletting has remained popular with many people who have chosen to evade modern medicine in favour of the archaic therapy. Mr Ghyas known to be not taking any fees for his treatment giving priority to their illness and poor status. Rather intending to make money, Mr Ghyas depends on one son who is a shopkeeper while another son is following in the footsteps of his father and helps with the bloodletting.
Now, coming to Bloodletting it happens to be an ancient custom that was first mentioned in ancient Greek and Sanskrit medical texts thousands of years ago. It involves to cause by incitement controlled bleeding in an attempt to eliminate the body of what practitioners refer to as 'polluted blood'. The fact that the technique was modeled on the process of menstruation. Interestingly, the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates had confidence in the truth that menstruation functioned to purify women of bad humors. The basic premise of the therapy is that not pure blood is the root cause of all physical illness. It seems if we eliminate our body of bad blood, we produce new blood as well as in turn bring back our health into existence.
Critical session to undergo for the best success:
In Europe, bloodletting was seen as undeserving of trust at the end of the 19th century as doctors felt it resulted in making patients weak as well suffering from infection, but it has had a tendency to rise again accompanied by people attempting a version of it with blood-sucking leeches. On the similar line, at the Delhi clinic, patients must first stand in the sun for half an hour to make the blood flow more easily. Afterward the patient who are still standing upright, is tied from the waist down with a rope, and the actual cuts are committed using a razor blade.
Research intending towards fact about the benefits to the treatment.
While research has been conducted preceding year a study of 60 overweight people found that the bloodletting reduced blood pressure, as well as levels of ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol and increased ‘good’ HDL cholesterol. The results of the study, published in the journal BMC Medicine, amazed even the researchers. Even another study from the Journal of the American Medical Association, those who donated blood every six months at the same time in effect bloodlet had fewer heart attacks and strokes.
It is thought that this is because iron levels in the blood are reduced. High iron levels have been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
Other surprising facts to consider:
Therapies conducted using blood-sucking leeches have gained popularity in Britain in not long past years and a number of studies have justified practitioners' claims. Even it was revealed that a single session of leeching nothing but the medical application of bloodsucking leeches can significantly reduce knee pain caused by arthritis for at least two months. The University of Duisburg-Essen researchers in Germany demanded by supported facts that improvement levels were comparable to those succeeded with daily moderate doses of painkillers such as ibuprofen. Presently, investigation is under process at the university as to explore the actuality about nerve pain caused by shingles could as well be counteracted by leeching.
(AW:Samrat Biswas)
