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  • 12 February, 2021

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World Unani Day

World Unani Day

World Unani Day was celebrated on February 11, 2021, to spread awareness about health care delivery through the Unani system of medicine through its preventive and curative philosophy.

  • World Unani Day is celebrated every year to mark the birth anniversary of Hakim Ajmal Khan.
  • He was an eminent Indian Unani physician who was a great scholar, a social reformer, a noted freedom fighter, an Unani medical educationist and a founder of scientific research in the Unani System of Medicine.
  • He was one of the founders of the Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi

Principles of Unani System:

  • The Unani system postulates the presence of four senses of humour in the body: dam (blood), balgham (phlegm), Safra (yellow bile) and Sauda (black bile), a parallel to kapha, vata and pitta, the three doshas in Ayurveda.
  • The quality and quantity of four humours affect the state of health and disease in the body.
  • Origin: Unani system originated in Greece. The theoretical framework of Unani medicine is based on the work of Hippocrates (460-377 BC).
  • Role of Arabs: The system owes its present form to the Arabs who not only saved much of the Greek literature by rendering it into Arabic but also enriched it with their own contributions.
  • Indian scenario: In India, it was introduced by Arabs and Persians sometime around the eleventh century.
  • Revival by Hakim Ajmal Khan: It saw the beginning of its revival during the freedom struggle due to the efforts of Hakim Ajmal Khan. He established Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College and Hindustani Dawakhana a pharmaceutical company for manufacturing Ayurvedic and Unani medicine in Delhi in 1916.

Source: PIB


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