Unani Herbal Medicines - Highly Beneficial
Unani herbal medicines have their own importance and value. The Unani system of medicine can be traced back to 5000 years. Our history has rich evidence of Unani medicinal system to treat many diseases. Until the introduction of contemporary medicines, Unani and herbal medicines were the only established medications available for people of that time to address all their health matters. In fact, people of that time were healthier than the people of this period.
The traditional and time-tested Unani herbal medicines are now considered a much safer approach to address various diseases and disorders. Even the medicines that were once accessible only to the members of the royal families are now openly available to a common person. The fewer and less severe side effects if any, the better curative properties, and the effectiveness of these medicines are the main reasons for their gaining fast popularity even in the Western world.
These medicines are highly beneficial not only to treat the sickness but also to treat the root cause of a disease. Many chronic and untreatable diseases can be addressed satisfactorily by this natural way of treatment. Due to their numerous benefits, the world is now turning towards such natural preparations. New research and studies are being conducted and the use of these traditional medicines is being fully established and duly recognized by the modern world.
Many serious challenges are now being faced by healthcare authorities worldwide, both in the developed and developing countries. At the turn of the last century, many diseases resulted from infective organisms of infestations that reduced life expectancy considerably. Today's lifestyle has to take lot of blame. Our dietary values changed, cheap and calorie-rich foods are added to our menu, and people are now less inclined to physical exercise. Now, we are not capable of dealing with an increasingly obtrusive stress in occupational and daily social life. At the same time, the use of recreational drugs, alcohol and tobacco has become pervasive.
Due to faulty lifestyle, toxins accumulate in our body that very negatively affects the vital body functions like the digestive, circulatory, and urinary systems. Toxin accumulation adversely affects various organs and tissues of the body, leading to structural damage. The Unani approach to chronic and serious diseases is both preventive and curative. The Unani treatment fully accepts the importance of the mental, physical and spiritual dimensions of a patient. Unlike the other contemporary treatments, Unani system of treatment not only addresses the symptoms of a disease but also it identifies and effectively deals with the underlying causes. It stresses more on the elimination of the cause of a disease, not just treating the symptoms. This is the great advantage of Unani medicines.
Unani herbal healing system explains the significance of herbal therapy. It uses herbs, minerals and animal elements to address a disease effectively and safely. Unani herbal preparations produce the best possible results without any intoxication or addiction. When the medicines are used as per the instructions, patients get very satisfactory results safely and quickly.
The main objective of Unani system has always been to approach the disease gently and safely, and that is what Hippocrates had believed. Centuries of practice has proved that Unani medicine is not only gentle and safe, but also extremely effective in healing numerous acute and chronic diseases.
Today, people are under heavy stress and suffer greatly from a chain of complexes and anxieties that lead to maniac depression, nervous breakdown, functional disorders of the vital body organs, and so on, the list is very long.
Medicon Nutraceuticals (P) Ltd is specialized in procuring and marketing rich traditional medicines for the benefit of mankind. It has taken the task to make the highly beneficial Unani herbal medicines known to people so that they can benefit with these traditionally practiced natural medicines.
Medicon is committed to make available as many traditional medicines as possible for the benefit of the people. Every effort is being made to ensure people get the best possible preparations and live a healthy life without worrying for the side effects or reactions that are so common now with many conventional medications. Apart from a specialized range of carefully prepared medicines, Medicon offers a great variety of Unani herbal preparations that can be used to cure many diseases.
History of Unani Medicine
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Though the threads which comprise Unani healing can be traced all the way back to Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, who lived in the second century of the Christian Era, the basic knowledge of Unani medicine as a healing system was developed by Hakim Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in the west) in his medical encyclopedia The Canon of Medicine. The time of origin is thus dated at circa 1025 AD, when Avicenna wrote The Canon of Medicine in Persia. While he was primarily influenced by Greek and Islamic medicine, he was also influenced by the Indian medical teachings of Sushruta and Charaka.
As an alternative form of medicine, Unani has found favour in Asia, especially India. In India, these Unani practitioners can practice as qualified doctors, as the Indian government approves their practice. Unani medicine is very close to Ayurveda. Both are based on theory of the presence of the elements (in Unani, they are considered to be fire, water, earth and air) in the human body. (The elements, attributed to the philosopher Empedocles, determined the way of thinking in Medieval Europe.) According to followers of Unani medicine, these elements are present in different fluids and their balance leads to health and their imbalance leads to illness. All these elaborations were built on the basic Hippocratic theory of the Four Humours. The theory postulates the presence in the human body of blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. Each person's unique mixture of these substances determines his temperament: a predominance of blood gives a sanguine temperament; a predominance of phlegm makes one phlegmatic; yellow bile, bilious (or choleric); and black bile, melancholic. As long as these humours are in balance, the human system is healthy; it is imbalance which can result in disease.
Hippocrates
Hippocrates was a Greek physician born in 460 BC on the island of Cos, Greece. He became known as the founder of medicine and was regarded as the greatest physician of his time. He based his medical practice on observations and on the study of the human body. He held the belief that illness had a physical and a rational explanation. He rejected the views of his time that considered illness to be caused by superstitions and by possession of evil spirits and disfavor of the gods.
Hippocrates held the belief that the body must be treated as a whole and not just a series of parts. He accurately described disease symptoms and was the first physician to accurately describe the symptoms of pneumonia, as well as epilepsy in children. He believed in the natural healing process of rest, a good diet, fresh air and cleanliness. He noted that there were individual differences in the severity of disease symptoms and that some individuals were better able to cope with their disease and illness than others. He was also the first physician that held the belief that thoughts, ideas, and feelings come from the brain and not the heart as others of him time believed.
Hippocrates traveled throughout Greece practicing his medicine. He founded a medical school on the island of Cos, Greece and began teaching his ideas. He soon developed an Oath of Medical Ethics for physicians to follow. This Oath is taken by physicians today as they begin their medical practice. He died in 377 BC. Today Hippocrates is known as the "Father of Medicine".
Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdullah ibn Sina (980-1037 C.E.)
Ibn Sina was born in 980 C.E. in the village of Afshana near Bukhara which today is located in the far south of Russia. His father, Abdullah, an adherent of the Ismaili sect, was from Balkh and his mother from a village near Bukhara.
In any age Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, would have been a giant among giants. He displayed exceptional intellectual prowess as a child and at the age of ten was already proficient in the Qur'an and the Arabic classics. During the next six years he devoted himself to Muslim Jurisprudence, Philosophy and Natural Science and studied Logic, Euclid, and the Almeagest.
He turned his attention to Medicine at the age of 17 years and found it, in his own words, "not difficult". However he was greatly troubled by metaphysical problems and in particular the works of Aristotle. By chance, he obtained a manual on this subject by the celebrated philosopher al-Farabi which solved his difficulties.
By the age of 18 he had built up a reputation as a physician and was summoned to attend the Samani ruler Nuh ibn Mansur (reigned 976-997 C.E.), who, in gratitude for Ibn Sina's services, allowed him to make free use of the royal library, which contained many rare and even unique books. Endowed with great powers of absorbing and retaining knowledge, this Muslim scholar devoured the contents of the library and at the age of 21 was in a position to compose his first book.
At about the same time he lost his father and soon afterwards left Bukhara and wandered westwards. He entered the services of Ali ibn Ma'mun, the ruler of Khiva, for a while, but ultimately fled to avoid being kidnapped by the Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna. After many wanderings he came to Jurjan, near the Caspian Sea, attracted by the fame of its ruler, Qabus, as a patron of learning. Unfortunately Ibn Sina's arrival almost coincided with the deposition and murder of this ruler. At Jurjan, Ibn Sina lectured on logic and astronomy and wrote the first part of the Qanun, his greatest work.
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