COMPARISON OF DISULFIDE/THIOL HOMEOSTASIS AS A BIOMARKER OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN HIJAMA BLOOD AND VENOUS BLOOD

Year 2017, Volume: Volume 2 Issue: İssue 1 (1) - 2.İnternational Congress Of Forensic Toxicology, 286 - 286, 16.02.2017

Zeliha Kayaaltı , Fezile Özdemir Fatma Can Dilek Kaya- Akyüzlü Ceylan Bal Cemil Nural

Abstract

Hijama or wet
cupping therapy is a traditional alternative medicine method which is
administered as a treatment against many diseases over
the years, especially in Muslim countries and China. Epidermal tissue is gently
drawn and put on a cup over drawn area so “bad” blood is sucked by the help of
the vacuum or heat and collected in cup for cleaning cardiovascular system in
Hijama. Individuals’ pains relive or pull through the disease with the aid of
Hijama.

In this study we
aimd to determined disulfide/thiol homeostasis as a biomarker of oxidative
stress and comparing the level of disulfide/thiol homeostasis in Hijama blood
and venous blood. 16 blood sample collected in total, 8 of them collected by
the way of Hijama and the other 8 blood obtained through venisection in present
study. The concentrations of tiol and disulfide were determined with a novel
spectrophotometric automated measurement method.

The results
showed that the disulfide/thiol homeostasis is significantly higher in Hijama
blood than venous blood. Consequently, we can say that Hijama therapy could be
useful for get rid of the “bad” blood in body and Hijama blood is better
indicator than venous blood for determining the oxidative stress biomarkers.

Keywords

COMPARISON OF DISULFIDE/THIOL HOMEOSTASIS AS A BIOMARKER OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN HIJAMA BLOOD AND VENOUS BLOOD

References

• Zeliha KAYAALTI, Fezile ÖZDEMİR, Fatma CAN, Dilek KAYA- AKYÜZLÜ, Ceylan BAL, Cemil NURAL
• Institute of Forensic Sciences, Ankara University, Turkey Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Ankara, Turkey