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Is It Safe To Use Local Anesthesia Before Hijama/Wet Cupping Therapy?
Local anesthesia before Hijama/wet cupping therapy is not recommended for long-term benefits.
What Is Local Anesthesia?
Local anesthesia can be used in the form of a cream or a spray to numb a part of the body to avoid pain during any surgical procedure, in our case to prevent pain during the process of Hijama cupping therapy.
How does Local Anesthesia Work?
When anesthesia spray or cream is applied to any body part, it blocks the nerves that carry pain signals to the brain. Local anesthetics stop the transmission of neuronal signals by interfering with the function of ion channels in the neuron membrane. To prevent depolarization, local anesthetic molecules are thought to bind to sodium channels, stabilizing them in an inactive state. The local anesthetic must get through the cell membrane to have an impact because this effect is mediated from within the cell.
Nerve fibres exhibit varying sensitivities to local anesthetics: small fibres are more susceptible than larger ones, and myelinated fibres are blocked before their non-myelinated counterparts of the same diameter. Consequently, the loss of nerve function progresses in a specific order: first, loss of pain sensation, followed by…
