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Developments of Health Care: A Brief History of Medicine
Published in P. Mereena Luke, K. R. Dhanya, Didier Rouxel, Nandakumar Kalarikkal, Sabu Thomas, Advanced Studies in Experimental and Clinical Medicine, 2021
P. Mereena Luke, K. R. Dhanya, Tomy Muringayil Joseph, Józef T. Haponiuk, Didier Rouxel, S. Thomas
He is renowned as a polymath, and as a philosopher as a doctor whose significant work was the “Canon of Medicine” [al-Qanunfi’l-Tibb] continued to teach in Europe and the Islamic world as a medical textbook until the early modern age. The Canon of Medicine” put standards in the Middle East and Europe; it formed the basis for the traditional type of Unani medicine in India [26].
Alternative Medicine in Vitiligo Including Home Remedies
Published in Vineet Relhan, Vijay Kumar Garg, Sneha Ghunawat, Khushbu Mahajan, Comprehensive Textbook on Vitiligo, 2020
Unani or Yunani medicine is based on the Greek disciplines by Hippocrates and Galen which believes that management of any disease lies upon its diagnosis. It postulates blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile as fluids to maintain equilibrium and their imbalance causes illness.
Clinical Trial Protocol for Herbal Drugs
Published in Dilip Ghosh, Pulok K. Mukherjee, Natural Medicines, 2019
Like the CCRAS, the Central Council for Research on Unani Medicine (CCRUM) is another regulatory body for clinical trials with Unani medicines. Most of the clinical studies of Unani medicine are found to be limited within the academic space of post-graduate studies and are rarely cited in larger journals. CCRUM has published a guidebook with detailed descriptions of traditional terms in an attempt to bridge the gap between modern language and traditional Unani medicine like baras as vitiligo, nār fārsī as eczema, waja’-a-mafąsil or rheumatoid arthritis, katharat-i-shahm al-dam or hyperlipidaemia, and so forth (India 2013b).
Centella asiatica L. Urban protects against morphological aberrations induced by chronic unpredictable mild stress in rat’s hippocampus via attenuation of oxidative stress
Published in Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2022
Saravanan Jagadeesan, Samaila Musa Chiroma, Mohamad Aris Mohd Moklas, Mohamad Taufik Hidayat Baharuldin, Che Norma Mat Taib, Zulkhairi Amom, Thirupathirao Vishnumukkala, Warren Thomas, Onesimus Mahdi
Centella asiatica L. Urban (CA) is a green leafy herb that is valued for its medicinal properties and has been used in traditional medicines of many countries since ancient times [21]. The health benefits of CA have been described in Unani medicine in Sri Lanka, Ayurvedic medicine in India, Chinese traditional medicine, folk medicine in South Asian countries, and African traditional medicine [30]. Centella asiatica has been used for its neurological actions including memory-enhancing effects [31], and as a revitalizer for nerves and brain cells [32]. More broadly, CA has also been used for the treatment of headache and leprosy [33] wound healing, and memory enhancement [34]. Centella asiatica is most commonly used in many traditional medicinal practices for its neuroprotective effects [26,3536]. The ameliorative effects of CA on d-galactose and aluminum chloride-induced oxidative stress and cholinergic dysfunction causing neuronal degeneration, and cognitive impairment in male Wistar rats [37] and lead-induced toxicity in rats [38] have also been documented.
Pharmacological evaluation of Ashwagandha highlighting its healthcare claims, safety, and toxicity aspects
Published in Journal of Dietary Supplements, 2021
Deepa S. Mandlik (Ingawale), Ajay G. Namdeo
Withania somnifera (W. somnifera) is a woody, evergreen shrub of 0.5 to 2.0 m in height usually identified as “Winter cherry” or “Indian Ginseng” in English, “Ashwagandha” in Sanskrit, “Asgandh” in Hindi and “Asgand” in Urdu (Ziauddin et al. 1996; Dhuley 1998). The plant belongs to the family Solanaceae and cultivated in hot and dry parts of tropical and subtropical zones of world. It grows from Canary Islands, South Africa, Middle East, Sri Lanka, China, India to warmer parts of Europe and Australia (Purdie et al. 1982; Hepper 1991). The W. somnifera whole plant or its different parts are commonly used in Ayurvedic and Unani medicine systems of India for its medicinal and therapeutic usage for more than 5,000 years. It is also reported as an official drug in Indian Pharmacopoeia-1985 (Singh et al. 2011; Uddin et al. 2012) (Figure 1).
Traditional medicines and their common uses in central region of Syria: Hama and Homs – an ethnomedicinal survey
Published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2021
Chadi Khatib, Abdulhakim Nattouf, Mohamad Isam Hasan Agha
Traditional Arabic medicine (TAM) is one of the famous traditional medical systems, which is occasionally called Unani medicine, Graeco-Arabic medicine, humoral medicine or Islamic medicine. The subject of TM in Syria has received little attention in the literature, and very little is known about the traditional medicinal substances used nowadays by the Syrian population to treat the most common diseases. Throughout ancient times in Syria, as part of the Levantine Nations (Bilad al-Sham), and other lands in the region, humans used various natural materials as sources of medicines (Jaddouh 2004). In the western countryside of Hama, there is a natural reserve for medicinal plants, which is called the Abu Qubais Protected area in Al-Ghab region (which protect the biodiversity rights of indigenous people and affiliated to the general commission for Al-Ghab administration and development), 509 plant species belonging to 72 families have been recorded (Al-Mahmoud and Al-Shater 2010).