UNDERSTANDING OF QUWA (POWER) IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF UNANI SYSTEM OF MEDICINE: A REVIEW

Science is the study of nature and extensionally to the study of man. Unani System of Medicine covers the nature and human body both, as it was evolved in the environment wherein entire of the scholars were pre-owned of philosophical approach. Then their philosophy was holistic and transcendentalist based. The basic blocks of Umoor Tabiya (Basic Principles) interact at many levels and manifest into Kaifiyyat (Mizaj), Akhlat (Humour), Arwah (Pneuma), Quwa (Potentiality for action) and Tabiyat (Physis, the regulatory faculty) which need to be comprehend for proper understanding of discharge of normal function in the state of health. Since, the predominance of metaphysics in understanding of physiological mechanism of human body needs reasoning and logic for their proper comprehension. Quwa are one of them. How it was perceived? What is the function? Why it is necessary? Which corporeal forms provide its existence? What is the relationship in between Quwa, Nafs and Hararat Ghariziya? So, the present paper strives to comprehend the concepts of metaphysics in contemporary learning mode and its application for understanding of mysteries of actions as performed by human body.