Investigation of Wet Cupping Therapy on Heavy Metal Levels of Steel Industry Workers

Karabuk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heavy Metal Toxicity

Treatments: Procedure: Wet cupping therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03693079

KBU-BAP-17/1-KA-071

Details and patient eligibility

About

This interventional study investigates the efficacy of Wet cupping therapy on heavy metal levels.The levels of the selected heavy metals will be measured in the blood samples obtained from the participants before and after the interventions

Full description

Wet cupping therapy (WCT) is a traditional therapy which was used for centuries especially for detoxifiying purposes.Current literature also points out its blood clarifiying capacity in order to illuminate the underlying mechanism of this ancient treatment.

Steel industry workers, different from the general population are exposed to heavy metals more often.Conducting a study in this special group where we will evaluate the levels of selected heavy metals in blood before and after the three sessions of WCT might let us know its detoxifiying capacity based on measurable parameters.

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy individuals
• Iron and Steel industry workers

Exclusion criteria

• having any chronic disorder
• being on daily medication
• wet cupping application in the last 6 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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44 participants in 1 patient group

Wet Cupping

Experimental group

Description:

wet cupping therapy will be applied to all participants

Treatment:

Procedure: Wet cupping therapy