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Introduction
As man from the first day, hungry and thirsty,
felt the need of something to feed his mouth,
being exposed to rains and heat of the sun, ran
for shelter, and on being tired and sleepy, desperately
felt the need of some safe sheltering cover; likewise
on getting ill or feeling any physical discomfort
or disease, he started searching for some medicine,
herb or remedy. Following the natural rules of
survival and God gifted instinct, he made use
of all available trees, their branches, leaves,
flowers and herbs which resulted sometimes in
complete cure, sometimes no result yielded and
sometimes it resulted into death. Patients failing
to get relief were left at the mercy of circumstances,
considering ‘death’ to be due to some
unseen, hidden and divine power. Medicines / herbs
yielding desired relief or results were remembered
for future reference. Thus, this natural way of
healing was transferred from person to person
and place to place. Persons acting as physicians
or guide were much respected and were even given
the status of ‘a god’. As time passed,
search for new herbs was intensified and numerous
groups at different places were formed. Accordingly,
different branches dealing in particular ‘system’
of treatment came into existence in China (Chinese
Medicine), Egypt (Egyptian Medicine), Iran (Iranian
Medicine), Italy (Roman Medicine) and India (Ayurveda).
One such system of medicine was also formed in
Greece (Unan). Great and renowned physicians did
further research work in this field as a result
of that, a permanent branch of Tibb (system of
medicine), widely known as the UNANI SYSTEM OF
MEDICINE, came into existence. Hippocrates (Buqrat,
460-377 BC), a Greek physician who is also known
as the Father of Medicine, further developed this
branch of knowledge. For treating the patients,
he specially built a compound where patients declared
‘uncurable’ used to be under his treatment.
Besides, people from distant places also used
to come to him to learn this art (Unani System
of treatment). This way, the system progressed..
Eminent personalities like Aristotle (Arastu),
Galen (Jalinus, 131-210 AD), Ibn Betar (Ibn Baitar)
made an epoch in this domain and their successors
were Zakarya Razes (850-925 AD) and Avicenna (980-1037
AD). Since these physicians had done all the work
and rendered their services purely on humanitarian
ground for the ailing humanity, they secured all
their knowledge and experience in books for their
successors.
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Introduction
What is Unani
System of Medicine?
Treatment
Hamdard and Unani
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