The 4th International Conference on Nursing

Author :

Nurona Azizah

Affiliation :

School of Nursing, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia

Abstract :

Introduction Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that most occurred in children and statistically showing an increase in young adult. In term of asthma therapy, patients reported unsatisfied with the side effects, effectiveness and the dependence of the asthma drugs. To this date, the use of Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) is increasing as a combination with conventional medicine or as an independent therapy and proved to be effective. One of the well-known CAM that has been proven for relieving and curing many diseases is cupping therapy, especially wet cupping therapy (WCT). Despite WCT has been recommended in managing asthma, however, It’s not been applied yet officially in Indonesian health care practices. Methods We reviewed experimental studies that investigated the use of WCT in managing asthma disease. The method was a literature review and the sources were derived from scientific articles, systematic review, and book. Results A total of 9 studies investigating the role of WCT to manage asthma were identified. Published scientific articles related to WCT effectivity in managing asthma were extremely rare, especially in English language. Conclusion WCT has been considered as an effective method in managing asthma and had high-level safety, especially for those with mild asthma. WCT has proved effectively enhance pulmonary functions and improve the cellular and humoral immunity in asthma patients. Researchers and health practitioners are essentially needed to improve research in large scale towards the use of WCT to manage asthma thus the effectivity would be more trustworthy to be officially practiced in healthcare settings.

Keywords :

Wet Cupping Therapy; Asthma