Traditional Medicine: Pioneers Of The Present Day
Ancient Greek Medicine
This functional medical system originated over six thousand years ago and travelled through Ancient Greece to Europe where it became known as Graeco-Arabic Medicine. It was the most commonly practiced medicine until about 150 years ago. It was also carried by the Islamic merchants into the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, where it became known as Unani Tibb or Unani Medicine. Many practitioners of Graeco-Arabic medicine still utilise the holistic guidelines of this Traditional healing.
Twenty-First Century men and women owes a huge gratitude to ancient Greece. Almost everything that contributes to the interest of life came from Greece. Science and medicine; all had their origins there, and indeed accomplished a level of excellence which has never been equalled since.
It was Bukrath (Hippocrates), 460-377 BC, who freed this form of from being tarnished with superstition and sorcery and gave it the higher status of medical science. Following Hippocrates, many scholars built on the system of whom Jalinoos (Galen) 131-210 A.D, Al-Razi (Rhazes) 850-925 A.D. and Abu Ali Ibn Sina (Avicenna) 980-1037 A.D. are noteworthy.
Unani medicine first evidenced that disease was a natural process and that symptoms were merely the reactions of the body to the sickness. It believes in the humoral theory which presupposes the presence of the four humors - Dam (blood), Balgham (phlegm), Safra (yellow bile) and Sauda (black bile) in the body. Each humor displays its own temperament - blood is hot and moist, phlegm cold and moist, yellow bile dry and hot and black bile cold and dry. Every person reaches a disposition according to the prevalence in them of the humors which represent the person's state of health, which are expressed as melancholic, sanguine, choleric and phlegmatic.
Development of Unani Medicine & Science
In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer identifies the authorities used by his Doctour of Physic: four Unani physicians —- Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi (Jesu Haly), al-Razi (Rhazes), Ibn Sina (Avycen) and Ibn Rushd (Averrois). These four Hakims were considered the greatest healing figures of the ancient world. Their influence remained throughout the Middle Ages, and their parchments were undoubtedly the root of medical teaching in European medical schools, up to even the beginning of the 20th century.
The Unani physicians arose from the Islamic culture of 1,000 years ago, and their perspective was based on an idea of medicine as the science by which the functioning of the body could be discerned. Their goal was the preservation of health as well as helping the body in its role as a self-healer. They placed as much importance on the balance and maintenance of health as on the healing arts.
The very first hospitals were built under the patronage of the Unani physicians. They were elegant and sophisticated structures, supremely functional, with fresh running water and baths. There were separated sections for the treatment of numerous diseases, with each section headed by a specialist. These hospitals were open 24 hours a day to offer emergency services and did not turn any patient away.
Unani physicians inherited the medical tradition of Hippocrates and the Greeks, but quickly put their influence of genius on their work.
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From a family of Clydeside Scots, Graeme was born and brought up in Hong Kong. He lived for 35 years there, as well as in Borneo and Indonesia. Intrigued by the way in which the different Asian cultures approach their health and wellbeing, he studied aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine and became familiar with many other time-honoured healing methods, from the traditional Jamu herbal medicine healers of Java to the body balancing mechanisms of Jin Shin Jyutsu, from Japan. Together with his wife Phylipa, Graeme runs Resources For Life, a natural health business in Chichester, West Sussex. Much of what is available on their website has origins steeped in ancient wisdom.
Click here to learn more about the unani herbs that come from Unani Tibb origins.
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