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What about the ethics of donating blood that others will use? If I understood correctly?

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Dean Mouscher here again - Thank you again for this great article. In Chinese Medicine, “blood stasis” - failure of the blood to circulate freely or some resistance or blockage - is a huge source of pathology. The primary functions of acupuncture are twofold - to unblock the free flow of qi, and to unblock the free flow of blood, i.e., to remove blood stasis. Qi is unblocked with the insertion of needles in certain points, but blood stasis can only be removed by releasing blood from certain points, i.e. bloodletting. Covid is without question a disease of blood stasis. Hence, it stands to reason that bloodletting is a valuable therapeutic approach, which dovetails beautifully with Dr. Haider's explanation above. This is by no means as obscure as Western observers may think - in addition to bloodletting (mostly wet-cupping) being done in Chinese medicine, the Islamic version of wet-cupping - Hijama - is widely practiced across the Islamic world. Tens of millions of plastic disposable cupping cups are sold every year, mostly to practitioners of Hijama (an Alibaba search for “disposable cupping cups” shows what a large and competitive market this is) https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&CatId=&tab=all&SearchText=disposable+cupping+cups

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