PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH OF UNANI FOR COVID 19

PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH OF UNANI FOR COVID 19 : ASBAAB E SITTA ZAROORIYA v The Greek physician Hippocrates known as the father of medicine sought a logic to sickness; he is the first person known to have examined the relationships between the occurrence of disease and environmental influences. He coined the terms endemic and epidemic. Everything depends on a cause for its occurrence, if these causes are in favour of health, health is gained. In Unani Medicine, it is supposed that there are six causes from which nobody can escape during life known as asbabe-sitta zaruriyya. These six factors are the efficient causes which are responsible for preservation or transition of existing health. HAWA AL MUHIT (ATMOSPHERIC AIR) Waba (epidemic) is believed alteration in the ‘jauhar’ (essence) of air. As a result the air becomes impure and finally, it leads the mal temperament of ruh which become responsible for morbidity or mortality of large number of people. This situation persists until the air become pure. As soon as the air gains normal characteristics, the effected individual gained their normal temperament and health is restored. Regular fumigation with loban in & around the living areas steam inhalation with arq e ajeeb is highly recommended daily. HARKAT WA SUKOON E NAFSANI MAKOOL WA MASHROOB HARKAT WA SUKOON E JISMANI (FOODS &DRINKS) Foods and Drinks with the help of their quality, madda and morph are believed to ensure healthy state, if taken judiciously. Every food, hot or cold, has an innate potency which plays an important role in terms of its impact on the body. Hot foods help in improving digestion and circulation , eating cold foods can impart a sense of heaviness in the body. They are harder to digest and can negatively impact the immune system By producing excess rutubat (moisture)in our body (REST &PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ) Whatever an individual executes the movements result in liberation of hararat (heat) This hararat stimulate the hararat-eghareeziyah (innate heat) and dissolve the waste product of the Balanced rest and movement exert the optimistic effects on individual health. Daily 30 mins walk is necessary to build up immune power Avoid foods that are cold and moist in nature NAUM WA YAQZA ISTIFRAGH WA IHTIBAS (SLEEP &WAKEFULNESS) (PSYCHOLOGICAL ACTIVITY &REPOSE) The psychic movement and rest influence the human health by different ways. Unani scholars explained different faculties which govern the internal and external functions of the body. The emotional state of a person plays an important role in health maintenance because the negative emotions make a person physically sick and positive emotions boost the immune system. Avoid panic and Stress which may lead to depression. The normal physical and psychosocial functions depend on adequate sleep Unani scholar Zakariya Razi delineates that eight hours of sleep is very essential for health. Sleep also work as a great restorer of lost substances during day time. Proper sleep prepares the individual for next day performance by energy conservation. If sleep is inadequate then this imbalance in routine surely affects the health and may become a major cause for health deterioration by weakening the immune power which has a natural repair response in the body 6 to 8 hours of sleep is a must to improve immune power (ELIMINATION & RETENTION Unani medicine believed that balanced between istifragh and ihtibas of substance is very important for maintenance of health. The word istifragh stands for the elimination of unnecessary or waste materials out of the body and retention of the substances which must be eliminated causes certain diseases. Regular bowel and bladder movement is a vital factor to maintain health UNANI FOR EVERYONE EVERYWHERE