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Arab’s Unani Medicine
All along, Arabs ruled the region of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and parts of ancient Kushaite starting empire from 523 AD, once Islam unified the people of the region. Arabs were neither intellectually like the Greeks, nor codifiers like Babylonians, institutionalized like the Egyptians, nor even documentation frantic like Romans. However, Arabs were good at discipline. Once they knew what to be done in what situations, they can follow that till the end of their lives without any anomaly.
Arabs combined Greek medicine knowledge with their discipline to create the “if this then that” ruleset. Mari, which is in modern-day Syria, used to be the hub of trade exchange between Greeks, Egyptians, Lebanese, and Mesopotamians Greek medicine was codified in Arabic, after simplifying the philosophy and making the medicine compatible with Quran and Islam.
From Mari, the Unani medicine reached Turkey. This survived to date because the Ottman empire has been one of the longest-lasting modern-day empires. The Turk conquerors spread Islam and conquered most of the Asian and Arabian world from 1000 AD till the 16th century AD when the rise of European monarchy and imperialism spread slowly put Turkish growth on the burner.
Indian Alternative Medicine(Unani+Homeopathy+Ayurveda)
Mughals brought Unani medicine to India. Whereas Samuel Hahnemann‘s Homeopathy, which was practiced extensively in Germany was brought to India by Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian Freedom fighter through his collaboration with Hitler in forming the Indian national army. Bose was diabetic, but Homeopathy kept him in good health and spirit. it is when INA, which was essentially an army of released war prisoners to fight against the British Raj.
First Dhaka, in Bangladesh, and then Kolkata was the intellectual capital of India because Koltaka was the Capital of the British Raj. Rushi Aurobindo, who founded the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, is the father of the Indian armed movement against the Britishers. He combined Freedom Fight with Intellectualism. From Subhas Bose, Homeopathy reached Aurobindo, and then Bengali intellects took it to the next level by Indianising Homeopathy.
Bose was probably the most popular amongst Muslims and had a large number of Muslims from both Lahore as well as from UP supporting him. The intellects of Lucknow(who are particularly of Turkish origin) started modernizing the Unani Medicine(which essentially is the Arabic Version of greek Medicine- Greek Philosophy).
Aurobindo Ashram took Indian spirituality to the next level when the modern-day father of revival of Vedic Spirituality, Swami Vivekananda’s disciple sister Nivedita got involved in the Kolkata freedom fighters and Ayurveda reached Aurobindo.