Unani Formulation - Jamia Hamdard

adjusting various elements of the diet. Patterns of sleep and wakefulness,
increasing or decreasing exercise, and similar measures, which can restore
the body and mind in balanced and healthy person.
When it is unavoidable to use drugs, first we should choose nutritive quality
containing drugs. Then first use single drugs as much as possible.
Selection of Single drugs
1. Free from external force: Drug should be free of any accidental
force.
2. Simple Illness: Illness on which the drug is employed should also
be simple, single and not due to a combination of many factors.
3. Opposite property: The drug should be used on property opposite
to its own property (Hotness against Coldness, moist against dryness
etc.).
4. Equal Property: The property of the drug should be equal to the
property of the disease treated with it.
5. The effect of the drug must be followed up, or the effect is seen
at the time of administration: If it heats only after some time, and if
it was at first cool, its heating is by accident. If it cools only after
some time while it heated at first, its cooling is by accident.
6. Follow up the effect of the drug: if this is the same all over the
body and at all times, its cooling or heating is a permanent property.
If this is the case, its activity is by virtue of its nature; if this is not so,
its activity is accidental.
7. Object: Test the drug on the very object that it is claimed to heat
or to cool, not on any other. Thus, if the drug is described as heating
the human body, one should declare it hot because it heats the human
body not because it heats another animal or another body. For
example, Bazrulbanj (Hyoscyamus albus seed), which cools the
human body, does not necessarily cool the bodies of cantharides;
also hellebore, which is a nutrient of quail, is not necessarily a
nutrient of human.
8. Discrimination: To discriminate between nutrients and
pharmacological action, by realizing that a drug heats or cools the body
by its quality, while an nutrients do so by increasing the substance of
the body and promoting its growth.
Aims and Objectives to prepare Morakkabat
(Compound Formulation)
There are following reasons for the use of compound formulations:
Unwanted effects: A drug may be added to prevent unwanted
effects of the drug, as in adding Peppermint (Mentha pipperetta herb)
to Senna (Cassia senna leaf) to prevent cramping.
To reduce strength: Compounding with drugs of opposite property
may reduce excessive strength of drug. Like cold drugs may be added
to reduce the strength of hot drugs.
Taste: Distasteful drugs are prepared with those that improve their
taste.
Enhance power: Drug may be added to enhance or extend the time
of action of the drug.
Corrective: Drugs may destroy the harmful properties of a drug, as
by mixing Zafran (Crocus sativa gynacium) with Afiun (Papaver
somniferum Linn latex). Some drugs have property of toxic or
poisonous side effects themselves. In such cases, a compound is
prepared that neutralize toxic effects.
Inadequate: Sometimes a single drug is simply inadequate.
Effective use: Sometimes in order to use a drug effectively, it is
necessary to mix it with other ingredients, as in adding oil and wax
to powdered drugs to use as an ointment.
To suppress unwanted action: Sometimes there is a variance
between the action of the drug and the nature of the disease, as when
a single drug works in opposite actions at the same time, like
ripening phlegm and hindering the growth of tumors. One would
compound in order to avoid aggravating one or the other of these
conditions, since the desire is to treat them in sequence, not at the same
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