Unani medicine

Today, most camphor is made synthetically from turpentine.

Camphor has been used medicinally for thousands of years across Ayurvedic, Chinese, and Unani medical traditions for everything from respiratory ailments and fever to joint pain and even as a cardiac stimulant.

Yeah.

So yet another ancient medicine that you can buy at Walgreens.

Right.

Then the New Dallier Committee in 1959 realized that millions of people relied on indigenous systems of medicine, like Ayurveda, Sita, and Unani.

So they brought those under the umbrella of the Drugs Act so they could be regulated for safety, too.

Which was a huge step for public health.

With homeopathy, many practitioners also use functional medicine, of course, is one.

But also, you know, TCM, which is traditional Chinese medicine, and Ayurveda, Yunani medicine as well, and so many others.

You know, it's a world of possibilities.

I want to pick up here with something that you mentioned, because there are quite a lot of health care practitioners who use various kinds of tests, which are sometimes not affordable as well.

The origins of Western herbal medicine are all based in the Persia, Syria.

going on to Roman, Greek, Arabic, Druidic, and Unani Tib going up into, and the closest I can get to that that people relate to is classical herbal medicine.

I don't know how that sounds to you.

Because Western is Western of what?

In traditional Chinese medicine, it has been used to help manage conditions associated with abdominal pain.

Similarly, in the Unani system of medicine, turmeric has been used to expel excess kapha and support better blood circulation by helping to open up the blood vessels.

Now let's shift our focus to liver health and understand why the liver plays such a critical role in overall human physiology.

The liver is the largest internal organ in the human body and is responsible for more than 500 essential biological functions.

There was a Western herbalism that has developed in the Western world using constituents, medical, like using the terminology of chemical constituents and compounds.

That seven song, that's like, what would you call him? He's not a Unani Tibb.

He's using Western terminology to talk about herbs, scientific terminology.

So I would consider that to be Western herbalism.

Yes.

So like any MBBS doctor or even people who study dental, uh, specialties, or, uh, if you want to do Ayurveda, Unani, whatever, you have to undergo the national level NEET test.

And with those scores, you can actually register in one of the colleges offering these courses.

And when it comes to the specific courses, also there is similarity in the sense that all these courses now are for a five point five-year duration, of which four point five years is spent on the education and then one year of mandatory internship, which is similar across board for whether you're studying modern medicine, whether you're doing homeopathy or, you know, Ayurveda.