About Unani Medicine

Unani treatment originated from Greece (Unan). It aims to aid body's natural processes with medicines that have no side effects. Unani is known by many different names, Greco-Arabs medicine, Arab medicine, Ionian medicine and Oriental medicine. According to Unani system, diseases are natural processes and the symptoms are body's reaction to them. Human body has self-preservation power (Quwwat-e-Mudabbira) that maintains the balance of these humours. Unani treatment facilitates body to regain or strengthen this balance. It follows the humoural theory that postulates presence of four humors in the body namely; • Blood (Dum). • Phlegm (balgham). • Yellow bile (safra). • Sauda (black bile).

How is Unani system of medicine practiced?

Unani or unanipathy is practiced by diagnosing the patient through various examinations like checking the pulse, conducting urine and blood test. As unanipathy deals with the balance in the internal, external surroundings and ecological system of a person, it deals with not only curing and healing the body disease, but also focuses on restoring the complete health condition of the person. And thus it also inquires about the diet, sleeping and activity patterns of the person for getting a deep knowledge of the disease and its causes. In Unanipathy features like signs, symptoms, temperature etc are the important things to be taken care of while diagnosing.The diagnostic skills required by a practitioner of Unani medicine are quite subtle, so studying the style of pulse analysis used by the Hakims is very helpful for practitioners of other Oriental medicines. As with many of the Oriental systems, practitioners are taught to focus on the patient and their particular manifestations of disease. Questioning, palpation, and observation are the three modalities utilized to investigate the nature of the imbalance. As with Tibetan and Chinese theories of disorder, the body in health is hypothesized to be in a dynamic equilibrium, and disorders arise when environmental or intrinsic factors influence a shift out of that equilibrium. The qualities of the blood, complexion, and body substance which need to be analyzed by Unani physicians is quite sophisticated and comparable to the highest levels of physical diagnosis taught in the West.