Offering a blend of traditional concepts and scientific notions of medicine, the first modern Unani health centre of Rajasthan has started its indigenous diagnostic test facility and developed an informal platform for information-sharing among Unani scholars and physicians to promote the time-tested and authentic Greek therapies and meet new medical challenges.
“Herbs and Hakeem” is the first hospital and research centre of its kind in the State and sixth in the country providing the age-old regimen to patients in a modern ambience. The hospital claims to have revived the sanctity of the proverbial Hippocratic oath.
The centre, drawing a large number of patients who have lost hope from prolonged treatment of other medicinal streams, has installed equipment such as semi-auto-analyser, centrifuge machine and microscopes to conduct diagnostic tests on patients for deciding the future course of treatment based on “humoural theory” of the 4 {+t} {+h} Century B.C. Greek physician Hippocrates.
Noted Unani expert and the force behind “Herbs and Hakeem”, M. Ibrahim Goury, told The Hindu here that the centre would shortly diversify for critical care of serious patients along with their admission in a new in-patients department (IPD) and apply for ISO certification in view of its services gaining popularity among both the medical community and the public at large.
According to Dr. Goury, the centre is set to achieve a new distiction by offering its Unani specialist services in the out-patients department (OPD) of Santokba Durlabhji Memorial Hospital – the biggest private hospital in Rajasthan – from this coming Friday.
“Santokba Hospital soliciting our services [for its patients] proves that though different systems consider Hippocrates the Father of Medicine, the Unani system is the only medicinal stream which [still] follows the principles laid down by the doyen of medicine,” says Dr. Goury, who resigned from State Government service to devote his time and energy to Unani promotion.
“Herbs and Hakeem” has been recognised as the leading Unani institution in North India by Kozhikode-based Unani pharmaceutical firm Hermas Products, which is supplying its drugs to the centre for direct delivery to patients. Physicians at the hospital also prescribe medicines manufactured by the legendary Hamdard Dawakhana of Delhi.
Dr. Goury says the motivation for entry into an “untested field” in the desert State came from the All-India Unani Tibbi Congress, while the Deputy Adviser of Unani in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Syed Asad Pasha, also attended the centre's inauguration here in May last year.
The hospital is successfully treating patients complaining of cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, carpel tunnel syndrome, low back pain, planter fascitis, slip disc, knee-joint pain, neuritis and tennis elbow. Physicians at the centre specialise in treatment of neuro-muscular disorders.
As part of the regimental therapy, physicians at the centre apply methods such as Hijamah (cupping), Alaque (leeching), Fasad (blood letting), Inkebab (steam bath) and Dalak (massage). Besides, Adviya (prescription of medicines) is done under Ilaj-bil-Dawa.
Two physicians from the centre were invited as resource persons to a national workshop on Ilaj-bil-Tadbeer organised by the Ayush Department of the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry in New Delhi recently. Their papers on a few case studies won the appreciation of participants.
Source:The Hindu
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