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Persian and Unani remedies: 278 herbs and formulations, graded by evidence

Unani medicine carried Greek humoral theory through Persian and Arabic scholarship into South Asia, where it is still a licensed system. Its materia medica overlaps heavily with Ayurveda and with European herbalism, which is why many of these pages also sit on those hubs. The classical names are kept alongside the botanical ones, because the Persian or Urdu name is usually what a reader is searching with.

AA — consistent trial evidence4

BB — some trial evidence34

CC — limited or mixed evidence56

DD — little evidence beyond tradition38

–Insufficient evidence112

–Not yet graded34

Not every remedy names a tradition. Browse the full A–Z index for all 3,787 remedies, including the 255 with no recorded tradition.