Use of Unani Medicine In Bangladesh

Abstract

The unani medical method combines science and amazing healing art. It regards an individual as a whole instead than as a collection of separate components. It aims to heal the body, the mind, and the spirit. The increase of chronic diseases increasing day by day and the use of Unani medicine increasing day by day due to its absent of side effects rather than synthetic medicine. In children disease like (Enteritis, dysponea, convulsion)., and chronic disease like diabetes can be easily treated with unani medicine. And it is observed that 25.6 percent of people are using unani medicine to control diabeteic and present time its users are increased to 92.70%, most commonly plants that are used for unani medicine formulation are AloebarbadensisMill.(Ṣibr), CrocussativusLinn.(Za‘frān) and many others. The available Unani medicine that are manufacturing in Bangladesh are CENTURIN® (PENITAB), CAPSULE ENDUREX® (MUMSHIK) etc. There are some obstacle such as standardization of unprocessed medication, dosing related problems etc which should be minimize to increase the faith on unani medicine.