World Unani Day was celebrated on February 11, 2021.
Objective: To spread awareness about health care delivery through the Unani system of medicine through its preventive and curative philosophy.
Important value additions
World Unani Day is celebrated every year to mark the birth anniversary of Hakim Ajmal Khan.
Principles of Unani System: It postulates the presence of four humor in the body: dam (blood), balgham (phlegm), safra (yellow bile) and sauda (black bile).
The quality and quantity of four humor affect the state of health and disease in the body.
Origin: Greece.
In India, it was introduced by Arabs and Persians sometime around the 11th century.
