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Medicinal Importance of Climbers Used in Unani System of Medicine

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Unani medicine is one of the oldest systems of traditional medicines practised in different parts of the world especially in Indian subcontinent and Arab countries. It is serving the mankind from centuries by alleviating ailments through drugs derived from natural resources. Although drugs from plant, animal and mineral sources are used in this system, but the drugs of plant origin are employed more commonly. Along with other drugs, a number of climbers have also been included in its repository. These climbers are used in a number of pathological conditions since many centuries, and the practitioners of this traditional medicine have reported very good therapeutic results as some of the drugs have been found to ameliorate many chronic and life-threatening diseases. Many of the climbers described to be medicinally useful in Unani literature have been validated scientifically by the researchers and reported to possess interesting pharmacological effects such as antidiabetic, antiulcer, anti-HIV, antitumour, anti-arthritic, nootropic etc. Present paper gives a brief account of 22 climbers of medicinal importance that are frequently used in traditional medicine (especially Unani medicine) to manage various acute and chronic diseases.

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Kalam, M.A., Ahmad, G. (2016). Medicinal Importance of Climbers Used in Unani System of Medicine. In: Shahzad, A., Sharma, S., Siddiqui, S. (eds) Biotechnological strategies for the conservation of medicinal and ornamental climbers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19288-8_3

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