Hashmi International

The unani herbalism, which developed over a periods of millennia by physicians like Hakeem Hashmi who devoted their entire life in search of useful herbs, wandering all over the thickets and mountains of the sub-continent, had imbibed the practices adopted by the locals and tribals from various regions. This system is also based on close observations over several generations of the pharmacological aspects. With the help of modern research tools, pharmacological studies on herbs, physicians like Hakeem Hashmi, revived the old formulations and made potent and new drugs are researched. Unani institutions like Hashmi Unani Pharmacy to-day has grown into a leading institution, devoted to provide health for all through promotion and development of centuries old unani system of medicine all over the world. Because of the pioneering and formidable works of Hakeems like Hashmi, Indian Unani Council has surveyed and collected 35,000 plants species so far, of which 23,000 have been provisionally identified. In India, today there are 32 under graduate and three postgraduate colleges in teaching unani medicine. There are more then150 unani hospitals and 1500 unani dispensaries spread out in 18 states of India. It now forms an integral part of national health care delivery system, and is recognized by World Health Organization as one of the alternative system of medicine.