Graeco-Arabic Medicine Medicine
This medical system originated over 6000 years ago travelling along the trade routes through Ancient Greece to Europe where it became known as Graeco-Arabic Medicine. It was the most practiced form of medicine until about 150 years ago. It was also carried by the Islamic traders into the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, where it is commonly known as Yunani Tibb or Unani Medicine. Many practitioners of Graeco-Arabic medicine still utilise the holistic guidelines of this Traditional form of healing.
Modern man owes an immense gratitude to ancient Greece. Almost everything that contributes to the interest and contentment of life originated in Greece. Medicine and science; all had their roots there, and indeed achieved a level of excellence that has never been equalled since.
It was Bukrath (Hippocrates), 460-377 BC, who freed this form of from being branded as superstition and sorcery and gave it the prestigious status of science. Soon after Hippocrates, many scholars built on the system of whom Jalinoos (Galen) 131-210 A.D, Al-Razi (Rhazes) 850-925 A.D. and Abu Ali Ibn Sina (Avicenna) 980-1037 A.D. are most notable.
Unani medicine first showed the sceptics of the day that disease was a completely natural process and that symptoms were merely the reactions of the body to the disease. It believes in the humoral theory which presumes the presence of the four humors – Dam (blood), Balgham (phlegm), Safra (yellow bile) and Sauda (black bile) in the body. Each humor displays its own personality – blood is hot and moist, phlegm cold and moist, yellow bile dry and hot and black bile cold and dry. Every person reaches a disposition according to the prevalence in them of the humors which represent the person’s healthy state, which are expressed as phlegmatic, choleric, melancholic and sanguine.
Development of Unani Medicine & Science
In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer identifies the authorities used by his Doctour of Physic: four Unani physicians —- Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi (Jesu Haly), al-Razi (Rhazes), Ibn Sina (Avycen) and Ibn Rushd (Averrois). These four Hakims were among the greatest healing figures of the ancient world. Their authority remained throughout the European Middle Ages, and their scrolls were undoubtedly the basis of medical teaching in European medical institutions, up to even the beginning of the 20th century.
The Unani physicians arose from the Islamic culture of 1,000 years ago, and their perspective was based on an idea of medicine as the science by which the functioning of the body could be discerned. Their goal was the preservation of health and to help the body in its role as a self-healer. They put as much emphasis on the balance and maintenance of health as on the skill of healing.
The very first hospitals were built under the patronage of the Unani physicians themselves. They were stylish and sophisticated structures, supremely functional, with running water and baths. There were different sections for the treatment of specific sicknesses, with each section headed by a specialist. These hospitals were open 24 hours a day to deal with emergency cases and did not turn any patient away.
Unani physicians inherited the medical tradition of Hippocrates and the Greeks, but quickly put their influence of genius on their work.
Click here to discover how the traditions of Unani Tibb live on even to this day.
From a family of Clydeside Scots, Graeme was born and brought up in Hong Kong. He lived for 35 years there, as well as in Borneo and Indonesia. Intrigued by the way in which the different Asian cultures approach their health and wellbeing, he studied aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine and became familiar with many other time-honoured healing methods, from the traditional Jamu herbal medicine healers of Java to the body balancing mechanisms of Jin Shin Jyutsu, from Japan. Together with his wife Phylipa, Graeme runs Resources For Life, a natural health business in Chichester, West Sussex. Much of what is available on their website has origins steeped in ancient wisdom.
Click here to learn more about the unani herbs that come from Unani Tibb origins.
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