asbab-e sittah-zarooriah
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The term "asbab-e sittah-zarooriah" refers to six essential external factors in Unani medicine that are crucial for maintaining a balanced existence and synchronized biological rhythm. These factors are: air, food and drink, bodily exercise and repose, mental work and rest, sleep and wakefulness, and retention and excretion. Unani medicine, originating from ancient Greek physicians and refined by Arab scholars like Avicenna, emphasizes natural healing through harmony and balance within the physical, mental, and spiritual realms. The health of the body is maintained by seven basic physiological principles, including these six external factors and the internal capacity of tabiyat to regulate equilibrium.1
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