Table 1.

Effects of Al-hijamah on some immunological parameters of thalassemic patients

Patient’s number	Before Al-hijamah				After Al-hijamah
	CD4+ T cell count (cells/mm3)	CD8+ T cell count (cells/mm3)	CD4/CD8 ratio	TAC/MDA ratio	CD4+ T cell count (cells/mm3)	CD8+ T cell count (cells/mm3)	CD4/CD8 ratio	TAC/MDA ratio
1	150	108	1.39	8	183	118	1.55	42.14
2	31	28	1.11	13	343	258	1.33	35.08
3	35	70	0.5	13.7	185	125	1.48	45.088
4	42	88	0.48	11.5	168	105	1.6	51.8
5	44	71	0.618	6.8	965	729	1.32	72.86
6	60	32	1.878	10.2	150	76	1.97	50.7
7	200	184	1.09	5.4	709	293	2.41	30.6
8	53	43	1.23	7.1	116	550	0.21	39.33
9	108	73	1.45	13	724	235	3.08	47
10	77	35	2.2	9.5	532	79	6.73	85.14
11	450	552	0.82	6.2	124	322	0.39	80.26
12	15	33	0.45	8.6	186	113	1.65	28.14
13	425	200	2.13	0.5	350	258	1.36	58.4
14	283	73	3.88	9.6	183	125	1.46	42.96
15	31	58	0.53	4.9	343	105	3.27	73.45
16	50	61	0.82	8.2	185	729	0.25	52.03
17	60	32	1.88	4.7	67	150	0.45	52.98
18	300	200	1.5	11.11	709	293	2.42	87.34
19	53	43	1.23	10.15	116	550	0.21	80
20	15	22	0.68	8.4	186	235	0.79	49.29
Mean	124.1	100.3	1.29	8.5	326.2	272.4	1.70	55.23
SD	135.32	120.04	0.82	3.3	259.11	207.41	1.49	18.34
SEM	30.27	26.85	0.18	0.37	57.97	46.34	0.33	4.1