The Unani System of Medicine pioneered in Greeceand was developed by Arabs into an elaborate medicalscience based on the frame work of the teaching ofBuqrat Hippocrates and Jalinoos Galen Since thatti ID: 897471
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AHMAD HUSAIN*G.D. SOFI* TAJUDDIN** RAMAN DA The Unani System of Medicine pioneered in Greeceand was developed by Arabs into an elaborate medicalscience based on the frame work of the teaching ofBuqrat (Hippocrates) and Jalinoos (Galen). Since thattime Unani Medicine has been khown as Greco-ArabMedicine. This system is based on Hippocatic theory offour humours viz. blood, phlegm, yellow bile and blackbile, and the four qualities of states of living human body popular in many Arab and East Asian countries. In factalternative health care system and has given it officialsuch as culture, history, personal attitudes and philoso-phy. In many cases, the theory and application of tradi-tional medicine are quite different from those of *From National Institute of Unani Medicine Kottegepalya, Bangalore.** From Department of Ilmul Advia, AMU, Aligharh, India.***From Department of Pharmacognosy Al-Ameen College, Bangalore. UUNANI SSYSTEM OOF MMEDICINE-IINTRO Medical Journal of Islamic World Academy of Sciences 18:1, 27-30, 2010 Medical Journal of Islamic World Academy of Sciences 18:1, 27-30, 201
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0 HUSAIN, SOFI, TAJUDDIN, DANG, KUMARUNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE-INTRODUCTION AND CHALLANGES time period of its use is generally given. Certain prepara-Type of compound Drug Formulations used in1. Solid formulations: Powder, tablets and pills etc2. Semi Solid formulations: Electuaries, Aperients,4. Gaseous formulations: Snuffs, Shamoom,Standards used in compounding of drugsThe official formulary of USM has enumerated cer-is honey, sugar, vinegar or alcohol. Required viscosity4. Principles of good storage: different methods of in France. However, comprehensive and reliable data3. Mineral origin drugs (5, 6) than two drugs are combined together, it is called Ilaj bilMurakkabat (treatment by compound drugs) (7). Various4. To increase life of drugs 5. To use in situation where single drug therapy can6. To moderate the potency/efficacy of a drugs7. To detoxify of a drugs8. To eliminate any side effects of a drug9. To decrease dosage form of drugVarious poly-herbal formulations are manufactured Medical Journal of Islamic World Academy of Sciences 18:1, 27-3
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0, 2010 HUSAIN, SOFI, TAJUDDIN, DANG, KUMARUNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE-INTRODUCTION AND CHALLANGES On the basis of authority, the expiry dates of various2. Tiryaque akbar: Upto thirty years and more (11)3. Tiryaque faruq: ten to twenty yearsPresent challenges for Unani medicine1. Validation of Empirical claimsClassical Unani practitioners mentioned a lot fromtheir experience regarding the identification of crudedrugs, their authentication methods, and about theirclinical efficacy. They also mentioned the method ofthe last two centuries, With the use of technology pre-to its safety, efficacy and quality control. on organoleptic characteristics e.g. colour, odour, tasteand consistency, along with these in modern pharma-ment of patients for clinical efficacy of formulations anderatures Unani scholars mentioned the different expira-formulations. Avalidation of these claims is the chal-lenge for all Unani pharmaceutics. It is also a challenge Medical Journal of Islamic World Academy of Sciences 18:1, 27-30, 2010 HUSAIN, SOFI, TAJUDDIN, DANG, KUMARUNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE-INTRODUCTION AND CH
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ALLANGES REFERENCES1. A Ishtiyaq: Kulliyat-e-Asri, New Public Press Delhi, 34-83,1983. 2. www.whoint.com3. Ajzani Akbar: Mufarreh-ul-qoloob, Khursheed Book DepoAmeenabad Lucknow, 56, 2002.4. Burhanuddin, Tarjuma wa Sharah Kulliyat-e-Nafeesi:Idarae kitabushifa Dayaganj New Delhi, 489, 1954.5. Abubakr Muhammed Bin Zakariya Razi: Kitab-ul-Man-soori, CCRUM, New Delhi, 52, 1991.6. Ibn Sina: Al-Qanun fil-Tibb, Jamia hamdard New Delhi,vol:2,1-37, 1998.7. Abial-Walid Mohammad bin Ahmad bin Mohammad binRushd, Kitab Al-Kuliyat, Literary Research Unit Lucknow,CCRUM, 365, 1965.8. Ibn-e-Abbas Majoosi, Tarjuma Kamilussalaah, Munshinawal kishore Lucknow, vol:2, 600-604, 1889. 9. Ibn Sina, Al-Qanun fil-Tibb, Jamia hamdard New Delhi,vol:4, 1-251, 2002.10. National Formulary of Unani Medicine, Government ofIndia Ministry of Health and Family Welfare New Delhi, 1-250, 1981.11. Tabri AH: Firdousul Hikmat, Maktaba Munshi Nawalkishore Lucknow,1st edition,1928.12. Kabiruddin: Bayaz-e-kabir,4th edition, 2nd vol, HikmatBook Depo Haidrabad Dakan, 1938.Correspondence:Ahmad HusainBANGALORE.e-mail: drahmadhusain@gmail.c