Heat Therapy: Concept, Mechanism and Application in Unani Medicine

IF 0.6 Q4 INTEGRATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

Current Traditional Medicine Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI:10.2174/2215083810666230427113538

Amanullah, Shamim, A. Sayeed, Merajul Haque, Asim Ali Khan

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Abstract

Application of heat either generalised or localised is among various means employed in Unani medicine for promoting health, preventing as well as treating diseases. The concept of hotness (Ḥarārat) and application of physical heat have been in vogue during different periods of human civilization and it exists even today with certain modifications. Unani medicine offers various methods for the application of mild to moderate heat that includes Turkish bath (Ḥammām), massage (Dalk), cupping (Ḥijāma), sitz bath (Ābzan), inducing diaphoresis (Ta‘rīq), douche (Naṭūl), vapour bath (Inkibāb) and footbath (Pāshoya). Heating modalities are commonly used by Unani physicians for relieving pain and stiffness, relaxing muscles, increasing blood circulation, liquefying the sticky and adherent humours lodged in the peripheral tissues and reducing inflammation. Application of severe heat also finds a place among various modes of treatment mentioned in Unani medicine. Cauterisation (Kayy) is the mode that is employed for the stoppage of bleeding, removing putrefactive matter and destroying lesions. Unani medicine offers classical methods and instruments for heat therapy used for centuries for the promotion of health, prevention and management of diseases. Heat therapy has been found considerably effective in managing certain health problems and diseases.

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热疗法:概念、机制及在乌纳尼医学中的应用

在Unani医学中，广泛或局部应用热量是促进健康、预防和治疗疾病的各种手段之一。热的概念(Ḥarārat）和物理热的应用在人类文明的不同时期都很流行，即使在今天也有一些变化。Unani medicine提供了各种轻度至中度高温的应用方法，包括土耳其浴(Ḥammām）、按摩（Dalk）、拔罐(Ḥijāma），坐浴（Ābzan），诱导发汗（Ta'rīq），浇（Naṭ蒸汽浴（Inkibāb）和足浴（Pāshoya）。Unani医生通常使用加热方式来缓解疼痛和僵硬，放松肌肉，增加血液循环，液化周围组织中的粘性和粘附性体液，减少炎症。在Unani医学中提到的各种治疗模式中，严重高温的应用也占有一席之地。烧灼（Kayy）是一种用于止血、清除腐败物质和破坏病变的模式。Unani医学提供了几个世纪以来用于促进健康、预防和管理疾病的经典热疗方法和仪器。已经发现热疗在治疗某些健康问题和疾病方面相当有效。

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Current Traditional Medicine INTEGRATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE-

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期刊介绍： Current Traditional Medicine covers all the aspects of the modernization and standardization research on traditional medicine of the world, e.g. chemistry, pharmacology, molecular mechanism, systems biology, proteomics, genomics, metabolomics, safety, quality control, clinical studies of traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic, Unani, Arabic and other ethnomedicine. Each issue contains updated comprehensive in-depth/mini reviews along with high quality original experimental research articles. Current Traditional Medicine is a leading and important international peer-reviewed journal reflecting the current outstanding scientific research progresses of the global traditional, indigenous, folk and ethnologic medicine. It provides a bridge connected the tradition medicine system to the modern life science with the efforts of top scientists, as well as a resource to pursuit the solutions for the existing common issues in the traditional medicine.