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.
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