Since time immemorial, man has been meditating about the root cause of various ailments and devising ways and means to cure them. In the primitive era of human civilization, the research and development work in the field of medicine was pretty sluggish due to absence of surgical instruments and paucity of available resources. With the advent of time, new avenues in the medicinal sciences were explored and the pace of work got accelerated. The countries who contributed much to the promotion and development of Unani/Herbal medicines are Greece, Egypt, Rome, China, Iran and the ancient India. Modern Unani medicines are the fruit of the united efforts made by the ancient Greco-Arab researchers.
UNANI / HERBAL SYSTEM OF MEDICINE:
Unani System of treatment with indigenous herbal medicine was evolved as a system in the period of Hippocrates (Buqrat – 460-377 BC) who was a renowned Greek physician and a scholar of high repute. It's because that Hippocrates is widely acclaimed as the Father of ancient Unani System of medicine. Gradually, this knowledge of herbal medicine further developed and turned into a medical science with the relentless efforts of personalities like Aristotle (Arastu), Galen (Jalinus), Ibn Betar (Ibn Baitar) and later by their successors Zakarya Razes (850-925AD) and Avicenna (980-1037 AD).
They all together, made incredible achievements in this domain and took this knowledge to a sound pedestal. Since all this research work was carried out on human-friendly or rather humanitarian basis, these scholarly people transformed all their knowledge and wisdom into the form of book providing a solid ground / foundation to the coming generations. This was aimed at ridding the mankind from sufferings of the diseases.
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