Unani Medicine Alternative Medicine Birbahuti (Trombidium red velvet mite) is used as Unani Medicine. Unani or Yunani medicine (Urdu: طب یونانی tibb yūnānī) is Perso-Arabic traditional medicine as practiced in Muslim culture in South Asia and modern day Central Asia. Unani Medicine is pseudoscientific.
The Unani system of medicine originated in Greece and the term Unani is derived from ‘Unan’, Arabic and Urdu for ‘Greece’. The theoretical framework of Unani Medicine is based on the work of Hippocrates (460-377 BC). By his method of careful study and comparison of symptoms, he laid down the foundation for clinical medicine based on diet and rest.
The term Yūnānī means "Greek",as the Perso-Arabic system of medicine was based on the teachings of the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen.
He advocated that the chief function of a physician is to aid the natural forces of the body in combating a disease. Unani system follows the humoural theory which postulates the presence of four humours in the body: dam (blood), balgham (phlegm), safra (yellow bile) and sauda (black bile).
A number of Greek scholars after Hippocrates such as Galen (131-200 AD) followed by Arab physicians like Rhazes (850-932 AD) and Avicenna (980-1037 AD), enriched the system considerably. Rhazes and Avicenna authored Al-Hawi and Al-Qanun respectively, which were compilations of their observations.
These were later translated into Latin and other European languages and taught in medieval European universities. They are said to have great influence of western medical thought.
The Hellenistic origin of Unani Medicine is still visible in its being based on the classical four humours: phlegm (balgham), blood (dam), yellow bile (ṣafrā) and black bile (saudā'), but it has also been influenced by Indian and Chinese traditional systems.
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