What is meant by Ilaj Bil Dawa?
In Ilaj Bil Dawa (Pharmacotherapy), drugs are mainly used to cure diseases. Unani Materia Medica include more than 2700 single or natural drugs most of which are plants in origin in the form of seeds, roots, flowers, fruits, leaves, barks, galls, latex, exudates and some times plant as a whole. The second group consists drugs of animal kingdom like hoofs and nails, hairs, flesh, certain organs, fats, milk etc. and third group is mineral in nature consisting ores, metals and precious stones and these are named as Nabaati (plant origin), Haiwaani (animal origin) and Ma dini Advia (mineral origin drugs) respectively.
