Cupping Therapy

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I was away last week in bintulu. A so called working holiday for me. Lucky for me, Residence of Bintulu were busy preparing themselves in the Bintulu Regatta 2006. An annual event filled with 3 days of boat racing and week long fun fair.

I don't really have the opportunity to watch all the event in the water. Speedboat racing, longboat/dragonboat racing and lots of others also. Bintulu being a small town weren't equipped to hold such occasion, since there will be a massive crowd of people and tourist coming from various places including Sabah And Brunei, and of course parking space will be inadequate.

It was one hot sunny day, and i could not bare even for 30 minutes. i though KL is hot, but try Bintulu. Or maybe i forgot to bring my sunglasses along...

well, there's nothing much to said about the racing...its all the same. winner and loser. wait for next, its better..

So i went to the Fair for some sightseeing and looking for something to buy. It was Bintulu old airport strip, nothing much also co's i've seen better. And suddenly something caught my attention, theres one booth there giving foot massage services. hahahah...just the thing i've been looking for. But i wasn't going for foot massage, its something i want to try for a very long time. Bekam!

Bekam or Locally known as Cupping Therapy is a method of sucking blood out using vacuum (not a vacuum cleaner). i don't want to tell how its being done. But the experience are worth trying. No pain No Gain....

its kinda exciting also, but a bit painful when they swiftly sway the gillette knife just above the skin to make opening for blood vessels. its a bit hard to tell here, since i myself can't see them do it.....so pictures tell thousand words...

just a beginning, nothing happen yet

See the blood?

look painful? actually i don't feel a thing, except for the knife swaying. i could really feel the warm blood behind my back over my skin. Luckily i don't take any pictures of the collected blood. it would be very gory. Then the Tabib explain to me what are the advantages of doing this berbekam, it takes out all those bad blood. Actually what it meant it is taking all those toxin from underneath the skin. Thats why blood that had been sucked out, don't get dry easily, instead from jelly like structure it melts like ice. i got 24 cups behind me...hehehehe...all the process took about 45 minutes. so i get myself a temporary tattoed at the back with circle shape. My back feels like i've been slashed thousand of time with a katana. Thousands of tiny cuts....i was screaming that night, when my brother put a healing balm on the red spot (see pix below)....i think that would be my first and last time...

Buddhist monk have those circle2 on their head, try me...24 cups altogether...at my back