We invite you to know what “Unani medicine” is, which has its origin in medieval European medicine which sustained its principles in the therapeutic techniques applied in ancient times, specifically in Greece where there was a theory based on the four moods: black bile, bile, phlegm and blood, that become the fundamental pillars of these methods, which have in Hippocrates, the father of medicine, one of their main defenders, as well as Avicenna, the creator of the canon of medicine.
In that search for alternatives to improve health, the man has resorted to different therapeutic methods, and Unani Medicine became one of them, to the point that today is experiencing a significant boom, representing an alternative system that in Latin America is little known.
The term “unani” refers to the province of Ionia, during the period of Ancient Greece, which was located in what is currently the region of western Turkey. It is believed that the ancient origins of Unani medicine start from the base of the 4 elements, which are water, earth, air and fire like in astrology, which are combined with the creative principles of disease, which are the cold, the hot, the wet and the dry thing that when unbalanced, produce different conditions in the body.
In this way, various organs are affected, such as the heart, the brain, the digestive system and the liver, which are essential for the proper functioning of the body, so a doctor should regularly resort to the observation of the pulse, the breathing, eyes, urine and faeces to make a diagnosis and try to counteract the disease through medication, rest, changes in habits, food and therapies.
Unani medicine has remained in time, and in India its importance has been acknowledged, to the point that in 1985, its practice was legally acknowledged, being included within the group of the five well-known alternative medical systems, such as yoga, Ayurveda, Siddi, homeopathy and Unani, increasing national and international public recognition.
In this way, unani medicine is part of the ancestral methods that are currently being applied in India along with Ayurveda, and have had a significant boom in western countries like Mexico, where it has been driven by Dr David Duarte, who has achieved recognition in different countries through the application of his method based on Unani medicine.
Dr David Duarte has been responsible for applying the principles of unani medicine, making an impact through social networks and ensuring that the effects of diseases considered degenerative and incurable such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, among others can be minimized.
The basis of Unani medicine is in the change of eating habits, which includes the elimination of certain components of food in order to achieve the integral health of the organism, among which are dairy products and carbohydrates. Thus, the individual’s diet should focus on the consumption of meat with fermented drinks in order to achieve the internalization of a different approach from which the person must understand what things alter the balanced functioning of his organism and what he must do to avoid a future imbalance in the future and keep a state of integral well-being.
Likewise, Unani medicine procedures applied by Dr David Duarte include the realization of therapies based on “spagyria”, based on plants produced under the principles of alchemy through which it is aimed to rebalance the body through food and plant medicines.
For these reasons, this medicine uses resources that help the intelligent system of our body to restore health and maintain it by consuming plant medicines obtained through spagyric processes; that is, through plant alchemy coupled with proper nutrition by eliminating carbohydrates and dairy products, as it was stated above.
In the case of dairy products, unani medicine is based on the fact that it is said that they produce almost 90% of the diseases that are currently suffered, among which we can mention type 1 and 2 diabetes, gastritis, reflux, ulcers, sinusitis, allergies, dermatitis, constipation, fatty liver and bloating because in the digestive process the proteins that these products have become aggressive for the body.
On the other hand, the water we currently consume is synthetic, whereby it does not contain the appropriate minerals, which is why it is considered to be in imbalance and does not provide the body with the necessary elements to maintain a good state of health, thus causing symptoms such as dry mouth, knee pains, digestive problems, hair loss, brittle nails, ringing of ears, ovarian cysts, myomas, and even hormonal problems.
For these reasons, the Unani method starts from the basic principle of changing eating habits and identifying the causes of the conditions of the organism to undertake a process of observation of the types of food consumed.
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