'Tipu Sultan Unani Medical College' is one of the prominent Institutions in the city of Gulbarga, located in northern part of Karnataka state in India. It is the brainchild of three hardworking and committed individuals, who rose from a humble background to establish this institute of Unani medicine. It gives bachelor level of education in the field of Unani medicine.
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It began as a humble structure on the land earmarked for it on the Ring Road of Gulbarga city. The first batch was started in these temporary blocks raised for the purpose. Now the new building is an imposing structure with class rooms, a well equipped library, and herbal garden.
Unani-tibb or Unani Medicine also spelled Yunani Medicine ( /juːˈnɑːni/; Yūnānī in Arabic, Hindi-Urdu and Persian) means "Greek Medicine", and is a form of traditional medicine widely practiced in South Asia. It refers to a tradition of Graeco-Arabic medicine, which is based on the teachings of Greek physician Hippocrates, and Roman physician Galen, and developed in to an elaborate medical System by Arab, Afghans and Persian physicians, such as Rhazes, Avicenna (Ibn Sena), Al-Zahrawi, Ibn Nafis.
Unani medicine is based around the concepts of the four humours: Phlegm (Balgham), Blood (Dam), Yellow bile (Ṣafrā') and Black bile (Saudā').
The word Unani or Yunani has its origins in the Greek word Ἰωνία (Iōnía) or Ἰωνίη (Iōníe), a place name given to a Greek populated coastal region of Anatolia.
Though the threads which comprise Unani healing can be traced all the way back to Claudius Galenus of Pergamum, who lived in the second century of the Christian Era and also to Ancient Iranian Medicine, the basic knowledge of Unani medicine as a healing system was developed by Hakim Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in the west) in his medical encyclopedia The Canon of Medicine. The time of origin is thus dated at circa 1025 AD, when Avicenna wrote The Canon of Medicine in Persia. While he was primarily influenced by Greek and Islamic medicine, he was also influenced by the Indian medical teachings of Sushruta and Charaka.
Unani medicine first arrived in India around 12-13 century CE with establishment of Delhi Sultanate (1206-1527 CE) and Muslim rule over North India and subsequently flourished under Mughal Empire. Alauddin Khilji (r. 1296-1316) had several eminent Unani physicians (Hakims) in his royal courts[10] In the coming year this royal patronage meant development of Unani practice in India, but also of Unani literature with the aid of Indian Ayurvedic physicians. See Notable Unani institutions.
Recently a state of art modern operation theater with all the facilities of treatment for various specialities like General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Gynaecology and General Medicine has been added. It has now become "Jewel in the Crown" of the Institution.