12/02/2026
Wet Cupping Accelerates Pregnancy, Study in Saudi Arabia Records 20 Percent of Patients Pregnant After Cupping
A pilot study conducted at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Saudi Arabia, states that wet cupping (hijamah) helps some women with infertility to achieve pregnancy.
The research was led by Hassan Abduljabbar and a team from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University.
The team examined the effectiveness of hijamah as a complementary therapy for women with female factor infertility.
Infertility itself is defined as the failure to become pregnant after one year of regular sexual in*******se without contraception and affects about 10–15 percent of couples of reproductive age.
So far, complementary therapies such as acupuncture have been studied earlier in the context of infertility.
Several studies show that acupuncture can increase pregnancy rates from 26.3 percent to 42.5 percent if performed before and after in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures.
Nevertheless, the use of hijamah for the treatment of female infertility has not been widely studied.
Involving 59 Patients
This prospective study was conducted from September 2013 to August 2015 at a Prophetic Medicine clinic in Saudi Arabia. A total of 59 women aged 20–50 years with female factor infertility were recruited in this study.
Of that number:
52.5 percent experienced primary infertility
47.5 percent experienced secondary infertility
The duration of infertility ranged from 1 to 22 years (average 5.87 years)
Before undergoing hijamah, most patients had tried other therapies, including:
Ovulation induction (76.3%)
Intrauterine insemination (32.2%)
Laparoscopy for endometriosis (8.5%)
In Vitro Fertilization/IVF (33.9%)
Hijamah was performed at 13 body points, including the back of the head, the kidney angle area, the lower legs, and the dorsum of the feet.
The therapy was carried out on the second day of menstruation and repeated every month if pregnancy had not yet occurred.
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