unani
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traditional medicine from the Mughal empire
Key facts
- Classification
- Traditional medicine
- Modality
- Herbal medicine (or herbal pharmacotherapy ), cupping therapy , regimental therapy (e.g. massage therapy , exercise), and surgical intervention
- Claims
- Health is maintained through the balance of four bodily humors, using a holistic approach of treatment.
- Related fields
- Ancient Greek medicine , Iranian traditional medicine , Ayurveda , Sowa Rigpa
- Original proponents
- Hippocrates , Galen , Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- Culture
- South Asia
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
1,208 papers- Unani medicinal herbs as potential air disinfectants: an evidence-based review.Reviews on environmental health · 2022
- Unani Medicines for Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review.Alternative therapies in health and medicine · 2024
- Understanding hypothyroidism in Unani medicine.Journal of integrative medicine · 2019
- The Perspective of Unani Medicine in Understanding Hyperthyroidism.Alternative therapies in health and medicine · 2023
- Evidence-Based Unani Pharmacotherapeutics for the Treatment of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Mechanistic Review.Alternative therapies in health and medicine · 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- traditional medicine
- Based on
- Canon of Medicine
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- topic's main category
- Category:Unani medicine
- Commons category
- Unani medicine
- OpenStreetMap tag
- healthcare:speciality=unani
- native label
- طب یونانی
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Encyclopedic overview
Unani medicine or Unani Tibb (Urdu: طب یونانی tibb-i-yūnānī) is a Greco-Arabic traditional medicine system practiced in areas of South Asia and Central Asia. Unani medicine uses the humoral theory of diagnosis, which predates the discovery of microbes and modern medicine. Unani medicine is pseudoscientific.
The term Yūnānī means 'Greek', referring to the fact that the Greco-Arabic system of medicine was based on the teachings of the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “unani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.