Prevention of COVID-19 Through Optimization of Tabi’at: A Unani Medicine’s Perspective

Background: Unani System of Medicine (USM) is one of the traditional systems of medicine practiced in India and the Indian subcontinent. It is a holistic system of health care based on inceptive principles applied by Hippocrates, Galen, and Ibn-e-Sina, the founders of present-day medicine. USM encompasses a distinct way of looking at the human body and it considers health to be the result of natural dynamic harmonious balance within the body. USM also recognizes the presence of inherent wisdom which is responsible for controlling all physiological functions, maintenance of health, restoration of health, and self-healing. This intrinsic ability of the body to restore health and the mechanism that activates the body’s healing process is called Tabi’at/ physis. The ultimate goal of prevention of disease can be obtained by optimization of tabi’at/physis, increasing the host defense. It can be achieved through the implication of asbab-e-sitta zarooriyah which includes some Unani Regimenal Therapies also, fostering change in lifestyle habits resulting in good health. Aims: In this raging pandemic all the therapeutic strategies are based on destroying the agent, breaking the means of transmission and immunization. Although we are leaving behind a huge gap in maintaining the host defense even though it has a crucial role in disease dynamics. In this paper, we have attempted to highlight the concept of tabi’at/Physis and its optimization to prevent this disease and its transmission. Methods: The authors had gone through classical Unani medical textbooks books related to the concept of tabi’at, asbab-e-sitta zarooriyah, and various modalities that help in health promotion and host defense. Important Unani medicine textbooks like Al Qanoon, Kamilus Sana’at, Kitab-al- Hawi, Al-asbab wa Alamat, Moalijat Buqratiya, Firdausul Hikmat and Kitabul Mansuri in addition to other published literature on the concerned subject was also reviewed for further clarification on the topic. Keywords: Unani System of Medicine, Tabi’at (physis), Host defense & Asbab-e- Sitta zarooriya

Awareness of Blood Donation on the Basis of Fasd (Venesection)

Aims and Objectives •To improve awareness of blood donation on the basis of Fasd (venesection) among all healthy individuals. •To make people aware about benefits of Fasd in normal healthy life. •To improve the quality of the donor, confidence and comfort in individuals, promotion of voluntary blood donation. Conclusion: The demand for blood products steadily increases. The gift of blood is the gift of life. One donation can save the lives of three people. Concurrently, blood donor recruitment becomes more and more difficult. This paper aimed to improve the awareness regarding blood donation on the basis of Fasd and review the effects of blood donation on donors, which could be helpful for blood donor recruitment and retention.

Trichotillomania: A Problem Related with Depressive Mood and its Follow-up - A Case Study

Depression manifests both mental symptoms and somatic presentation depending upon the severity of underlying factors. Trichotillomania is one of the somatic presentations seen in men and women both, but women are more likely affected. The problem manifest as frequent plucking or tractioning the hairs and locks in aggression, which arises hair damage and loss resulting as alopecia of that regions. The patient wants physicians help for patchy hair loss, and most commonly encountered with dermatology clinics. In this paper, we present a case of such suffering where it was managed on the line of depression and mania and was relieved in her somatic symptoms and mostly of alopecia. This article will provide suggestions for the behavioral assessment and treatment of Trichotillomania