Traditional Medicine: Pioneers Of The Present Day
Graeco-Unani Tibb Medicine Medicine
This medical system originated over 6000 years ago travelling through Ancient Greece to Europe where it became Graeco-Arabic Medicine. It was the most common form of medicine until about 150 years ago. It was also carried by Islam into the the Arabic world and later India and the Indian subcontinent, where it became known as Unani Tibb or Unani Medicine. Many practitioners of Graeco-Arabic medicine still utilise the holistic beliefs of this Traditional healing.
Modern civilisation owes a huge debt to ancient Greece. Just about everything that contributes to the interest and contentment of life originated in Greece. Medicine and science; all had their roots there, and indeed provided a level of excellence which has never been equalled since.
It was Bukrath (Hippocrates), 460-377 BC, who liberated medicine from the dominion superstition and sorcery and gave it the more influential status of science. Soon after Hippocrates, many scholars enriched 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 completely natural process and that symptoms were merely the reactions of the body to the disease. It believes in the humoral theory which presumes 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 damp, phlegm cold and moist, yellow bile dry and hot and black bile dry and cold. Every person reaches a disposition according to the dominance in them of the humors which represent the person's healthy state, which are expressed as choleric, melancholic, sanguine 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 among the greatest healing figures of the ancient world. Their authority remained throughout the Middle Ages, and their scrolls became the root of medical instruction in European medical schools, up to even the start of the 20th century.
The Unani physicians arose from the Islamic culture of 1,000 years ago, and their perspective was based upon a concept of medicine as the science by which the functioning of the body could be discerned. Their goal was the conservation of health as well as helping the body in its role as a self-healer. They placed as much importance on the maintenance and balance of health as on the skill of healing.
The very first hospitals were built under the auspices of the Unani physicians. They were elegant and sophisticated structures, supremely functional, with fresh running water and baths. There were different sections for the treatment of specific conditions 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 stamp of genius on their achievements.
Click here to discover how the traditions of Unani Tibb live on even to this day.
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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