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Unani Medicine

Life's challenges can come at us from the oddest of places. You never know when you are going to be faced with an unusual situation that requires just as an unusual solution.

Traditional Unani Medicine- Unani is a comprehensive system encompassing virtually all of the known healing systems of the world. ?Traditional Unani Medicine originated in ancient Greece around 400 BCE. Hippocrates, also known as the founder of allopathic medicine, is considered to be the first Unani physician. Traditional Unani Medicine is practiced today in many Middle Eastern and Asian countries including India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

In Traditional Unani Medicine, health is defined as a state of the "Body" (made up of the four elements: earth, air, water and fire) in which there is equilibrium in the four "Humours" (blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile) and the functions of the Body are normal in accordance to its own "Temperament" (cold, hot, wet, dry) and the environment. When the equilibrium of the Humours is disturbed and functions of the body are abnormal, that state is called Disease. Unani medicine is very close to Ayurveda.

Unani treatments for restoring equilibrium and normal body functions involve the prescribing of herbal and mineral medicines, specific diets as well as exercise, massage and Turkish baths, among other therapies.?

Amy's Experience: Brown recluse spider bite

While talking to my neighbor in the back yard when we lived in West Virginia, I found myself swatting at mosquitoes. Several days later, my right knee began to swell. After searching the internet for possible reasons - I did expect to find it was a bug bite of some kind; I narrowed it down to a spider bite. It, however, was much worse then a common spider. Even when I got the swelling down with natural remedies, I got sicker and sicker to the point that I could not eat and could barely move around. I could actually feel the life being drawn out of me. I contacted a professor from a college class that I had taken on Unani. After testing, he gave me some herb capsules and a food list (very common foods.) I stuck with it. Within 3 days, I felt that I would live again. It did take several months until I could actually speak and write with adjectives without the thesaurus but I was well enough to go back to school.

Would Amy do It Again?: Definitely Yes. I wish that this kind of information were more available to more people. I don't know of any more Hakims, practitioners of Unani especially in Florida.

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