Abstract

ZEEQ UN NAFAS – ASTHMA CAUSES AND TREATMENT IN THE CHANGING CLIMATE, A GREECO ARAB LITERARY APPROACH

Maqbool Ahmad Khan, Mohd. Tariq*, Mohd. Naime, Jamal Akhtar and Nuasheen Yasir

ABSTRACT

The changing climate as well as environmental pollution has forced the world to come together and take a serious note of pollutant factors affecting the health of mankind and increasing the resistance level of disease as well as creating new diseases. Asthma is a lung disease. The study of classical Unani literature reveal that Unani physicians of ancient era were fully aware of the disease, its causes, treatment, complications and prognosis, they tried to understand various phases and developed success full therapies and applied the concept of Akhlat and left it for posteriority. According to classical literature of Unani Tibb, the occurrence of the disease has raised many folds in the recent past. Due to industrial and vehicular pollution as well as housing pollution and occupational hazard also which has created climate changes as well. The contemporary Allopathic medicine is not enough to eradicate the diseaseorprovide a safe, free from toxicity medicine. Hence, the need of the hour is to search new, safe and viable alternative treatment to save the lungs of our future generations from ailments. This paper is an attempt to revisit the ancient Greco Arab literature to search better, lasting and safer treatment of Asthma.

Keywords: Unani, Zeequnnafas (Asthma).