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IJIMS.2020.111

Type of Article: Review

Volume 7; Issue 6: 2020

Page No.: 923-926

DOI: 10.16965/ijims.2020.111

OPTIMISTIC REVIEW OF HOLISTIC HEALTH OUTLOOK OF UNANI MEDICINE

Ammar Ibne Anwar.

Assistant Professor, D/O Tahaffuzi wa Samaji Tib (PSM), Faculty of Unani Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, India.

Corresponding Author: Ammar Ibne Anwar, Assistant Professor, D/O Tahaffuzi wa Samaji Tib (PSM) Faculty of Unani Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, India. E-Mail: ammaramu@rediffmail.com

ABSTRACT:

The term holism is a Greek terminology derives from the holos (whole), and it was first used in 1926 by Jan Christian Smuts in his book Holism and Evolution. Holistic medicine focuses on the physical, mental, emotion­al, and spiritual elements of the body and how they will be looked for or interconnected to maintain holistic health. When one part of the body or mind is not working properly, it is believed to affect the whole person and this is the basic phenomena of holism. Holistic fundamentals focus on the whole person rather than just on the illness or part of the body that is not healthy. In a more concise way, Holistic medicine is a system of health care that fosters an accommodating relationship among all those involved, leading towards optimal attainment of the physical, mental-emotional, social and spiritual aspects of health. The core concept of Unani System of Medicine is to maintain equilibrium in all dimensions of health and this is basic fundamental of Holistic Health. In Unani System of Medicines the practitioners never try to heal the diseases but he tries to treat a person as a Whole. So as per the essentials of Unani System of Medicine disease are the proclamation of the bodily dysfunctions and the imbalances. So the chief function of the Unani practitioners were to aid the natural forces of the body in accordance with the path laid down by this system in a holistic way.
Keywords: Holistic Health, Unani System Of Medicines, Heal, Natural Forces.

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