Abysmal Oddities of Brain in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Based on Sū’-i-Mizāj Māddῑ (Abnormal Substantial Temperament): Through the Lens of Greco-Arabic Medicine

Year : 2025 | Volume : 12 | Issue : 02 | Page : 30 42
    By

    Sana Kauser Ateeque Ahmed,

  • Tasfiya Hakeem Ansari,

  • Osama Riyaz Ahmed,

  • Patel Mohd Furqan Ahmad,

  1. Assistant Professor, Department of Mahiyatul Amraz (Pathology), Mohammadia Tibbia College & Assayer Hospital, Malegaon, Maharashtra, India
  2. Lecturer, Department of Mahiyatul Amraz (Pathology), National Institute of Unani Medicine, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  3. Assistant Professor, Royal College of Pharmacy, Malegaon, Maharashtra, India
  4. Assistant Professor, Department of Moalijat, Mohammadia Tibbiya College and Assayer Hospital, Malegaon, District Nashik, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

The mesmerizing history of neurological and psychiatric disorders relates to the history of humanity. The Unani philosophers apprehend neurological and psychiatric disorders superbly. They gave a conceptual understanding of the Sū’-i-Mizāj dimag and diagnosed neurological and psychiatric disorders wonderfully. Contrariwise, the Babylonians associated epilepsy, anxiety, depression, mania, and other psychiatric disorders with deities and demons earlier. To understand, analyse, and explain a comprehensive patho-physiology of neurological and psychiatric disorders, it is necessary to know about the fundamental framework of USM, which is based on deep philosophical insights. Uniqueness of USM is in its holism as it considers the human body as a single unit where the organs of the body are functionally in intimate inter-relationship. Also, USM deals with states of the body, i.e., health and disease. In the state of health, mizāj (temperament) and tarkῑb (structure) of the body are normal, and so are the functions. On the contrary, disease is an abnormal state in which the functions of the body are disturbed. The disturbance in functions is either due to an alteration in temperament or due to an abnormality in structure. Alteration in temperament is the most important cause of disturbance in functions, i.e., disease. However, prolonged alteration in temperament may produce abnormality in the structure of tissue or an organ as well. Literary material is collected from classical books of tibb-i-unani, their translations, previous theses and dissertations, souvenirs, journals, and proceedings, etc. Collected literature is systematized, and explanatory notes are added as observations and results, and based on behalf of literature review and observation, the discussion and conclusion are made. In the present study, an attempt is made to explain and compile the concept of Sū’-i-Mizāj, and its relationship with neurological and psychiatric disorders

Keywords: Sū’-i-Mizāj, Amrāḍ Nafsāniyya, Quwā Nafsāniyya, psych, psychiatric disorders, neurological disorders

[This article belongs to Research & Reviews : A Journal of Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy ]

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Sana Kauser Ateeque Ahmed, Tasfiya Hakeem Ansari, Osama Riyaz Ahmed, Patel Mohd Furqan Ahmad. Abysmal Oddities of Brain in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Based on Sū’-i-Mizāj Māddῑ (Abnormal Substantial Temperament): Through the Lens of Greco-Arabic Medicine. Research & Reviews : A Journal of Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy. 2025; 12(02):30-42.
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Sana Kauser Ateeque Ahmed, Tasfiya Hakeem Ansari, Osama Riyaz Ahmed, Patel Mohd Furqan Ahmad. Abysmal Oddities of Brain in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Based on Sū’-i-Mizāj Māddῑ (Abnormal Substantial Temperament): Through the Lens of Greco-Arabic Medicine. Research & Reviews : A Journal of Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy. 2025; 12(02):30-42. Available from: https://journals.stmjournals.com/rrjoush/article=2025/view=203759


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Volume 12
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Received 03/03/2025
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