Balance is not found.
It is restored.
A 1,000-year-old system. A modern clinical practice.
Unani medicine diagnoses imbalance through pulse, tongue, and urine — then restores it through single-origin botanicals, diet, and regimental therapy. No suppression. No symptom management. Root cause, identified and addressed.
1,000+
Years of documented use
45 min
Diagnostic consultation
4
Humors. One imbalance.
Your Mizaj is your
constitutional temperament.
Before a hakim prescribes a single herb, they spend forty-five minutes reading you. Pulse quality at three positions on each wrist. The coat on your tongue. The color and sediment of your urine. The pattern of your sleep. How you respond to heat and cold.
This is not intake. This is diagnosis — the identification of which humor is dominant, which temperament is disrupted, and which organ is the seat of the imbalance. Every intervention follows from that assessment.
Dam
Blood · Sanguine
Seat: Liver
Inflammation, hypertension, skin eruptions
Balgham
Phlegm · Phlegmatic
Seat: Brain / Lungs
Mucus, sluggishness, chronic colds, weight gain
Safra
Yellow Bile · Choleric
Seat: Gallbladder
Acid reflux, irritability, IBS, eczema
Sauda
Black Bile · Melancholic
Seat: Spleen
Anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, joint pain
Diagnostic Methods
I've been on steroid creams for three years. They clear it for a week. Then it comes back, angrier.
Chronic Eczema & Inflammatory Skin
The skin isn't the problem. In Unani understanding, it's the messenger — reporting an internal fire that hasn't been extinguished.
Excess Safra generates heat in the blood. The skin, as the body's outermost organ, expels what the liver cannot neutralize. Steroid creams suppress the messenger. Unani addresses the fire.
Primary Botanicals
Regimental Therapy
- Cooling diet — avoid red meat, spices, fermented foods
- Hammam (medicated steam bath) to open pores
- Topical Roghan Badam Shirin
Three gastroenterologists. Two elimination diets. A colonoscopy. They found nothing. I still can't eat without consequence.
IBS & Chronic Digestive Distress
When investigation finds nothing and symptoms remain, the question shifts from "what is broken" to "what is out of balance."
Weak digestive fire (Hararat Ghariziyya) fails to properly transform food. Undigested matter produces gas and fermentation. The gut wall becomes reactive. Unani restores digestive temperature before addressing the gut lining.
Primary Botanicals
Regimental Therapy
- Warm, easily digestible foods — khichdi, bone broth
- Avoid cold water, raw vegetables during acute phase
- Abdominal massage with Roghan Kalonji
My ANA came back positive. My rheumatologist says 'early autoimmune, watch and wait.' I've been watching for two years.
Autoimmune Patterns & Systemic Inflammation
Unani does not wait. When the body turns on itself, there is a pattern — and patterns have causes.
In Unani theory, the spleen regulates black bile. When the spleen is weakened, abnormal black bile accumulates in the blood, triggering what we now recognize as autoimmune reactivity. Treatment focuses on strengthening the spleen, purifying the blood, and restoring the body's ability to distinguish self from threat.
Compound Formulation
Full Regimental Therapy
- Seasonal Ishal (gentle purgation) to clear excess Sauda
- Hammam followed by Dalk (therapeutic massage)
- Anti-inflammatory diet — pomegranate, barley water, goat milk
- Compound formulation: Ma'jun Ushba
SSRIs made me numb. CBT helped me understand it. Nothing makes it stop. I've had anxiety since I was fourteen.
Anxiety, Nervous Exhaustion & Mood Dysregulation
Unani medicine has been treating what we now call anxiety disorders for over a thousand years — without the word 'anxiety.'
Cold, dry Sauda excess creates a particular quality of fear — anticipatory, ruminative, nocturnal. The heart (Qalb), in Unani the seat of vital spirit, loses its warmth. Treatment warms and moistens the nervous system through specific botanicals while addressing the organ — not just the symptom.
Compound Formulation
Full Regimental Therapy
- Roghan Badam Shirin head massage (warming, moistening)
- Evening Itrifal Kishneezi
- Structured sleep protocol — warm milk with Kesar and Jaiphal
- Avoidance of cold, dry foods; increase warming spices
From single herb
to full regimental therapy.
Treatment scales with the complexity of the condition. A first-time patient with a clear single-humor imbalance may leave with one herb and a dietary protocol. A patient with a decade of autoimmune disease may require a full regimental program. The hakim decides — not a protocol.
Tadbir
Regimen
Diet, sleep, exercise, emotional balance — the six essential non-naturals that either maintain or disrupt the temperament. Every treatment plan begins here.
Before a single herb is prescribed, the hakim evaluates your daily regimen. Most chronic conditions are sustained by lifestyle factors that botanical medicines alone cannot overcome.
Dawa
Simple Medicine
Single-origin botanicals selected for their specific action on the dominant humor — not broad-spectrum, not symptomatic. One herb. One target.
A single well-chosen herb is more powerful than a complex formula poorly matched. Unani pharmacognosy identifies the temperament of each plant — its heat, moisture, and organ affinity.
Murakkab
Compound Formulation
When the condition is complex — multiple humors disrupted, multiple organs involved — herbs are compounded according to classical formulas refined over centuries.
Classical formulas like Ma'jun Ushba, Itrifal Shahtra, and Jawarish Jalinus have been refined through centuries of clinical observation. They are not invented. They are inherited.
Amal-e-Yadi
Manual Procedures
Cupping (Hijama), therapeutic massage (Dalk), medicated enemas (Huqna), and venesection (Fasd) — physical interventions that move stagnant humors.
Some conditions require more than oral medicine. When a humor is deeply lodged — in joints, in the skin, in the nervous system — manual procedures reach what botanicals cannot.
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Mizaj Assessment.
Forty-five minutes. Pulse, tongue, urine, and conversation. At the end, you will have a name for what is out of balance — and a plan to restore it.
"The physician who knows only the disease and not the patient is treating in the dark."
— Ibn Sina, Canon of Medicine, 11th century