unani

Also known as Unani medicine, Yunani, Tibb Yunani, Medicine, Unani

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

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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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Commons category: Unani medicine
OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=unani
native label: طب یونانی

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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.