Unani Medicine Practice and Education in UK

Practice and Education in Unani
Medicine (Tibb) – Opportunities
and Challenges
by M. Salim Khan
5thHICGPAMRC, 9th to 12th Jan 2020
Hamdard University, Madinat al-Hikmah, Karachi, Pakistan
College of
Medicine and
Healing Arts

College Details
College of Medicine and Healing Arts
446 East Park Road, Leicester, LE5 5HH, England (UK)
(Registered in England & Wales as a Not-for-Profit Company No. 7677972)
Founder and Principal
M Salim Khan M.D.(M.A) M.H. D.O.
Contact Details
Website: www.CoMHA.org.uk
E-mail: admissions@CoMHA.org.uk
Phone: +44 116 273 86 14

College of
Medicine and
Healing Arts
Celebrating 100 Years of Hakim
Mohammed Said Sahib’s Legacy

College of Medicine and Healing Arts 2020

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Healing Arts
Setting the Context:
Great Britain

Great Britain

Home of Democracy

Home of the
Industrial Revolution

In 1948, UK became the first
country to provide universal
free healthcare for the
entire population.
Home of the NHS

UK Health Minister Aneurin Bevan meets
the first patient to be treated under NHS

College of
Medicine and
Healing Arts
The Thalidomide Crisis:
The Turning Point

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Healing Arts
Medicines Act 1968:
Govt. Response to the
Thalidomide Crisis

Medicines Act 1968
Section 12 (1) Herbalist exemption
Section 12 (2) OTC

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Medicine and
Healing Arts
The Herbalist’s Charter
(1544 CE)

Henry VIII
(1491–1547)

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Medicine and
Healing Arts
European Union Directive on
Traditional Medicinal Herbal
Products (2004 CE)

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Medicine and
Healing Arts
The UK’s National Health
Service Today

Government of the United Kingdom -
responsible for Healthcare in England.
Northern Ireland Executive - responsible
for Healthcare in Northern Ireland.
Scottish Government - responsible
for Healthcare in Scotland.
Welsh Government - responsible
for Healthcare in Wales.

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Medicine and
Healing Arts
The Current Crisis of the NHS

Summary of the Current NHS Crisis
1. Financial Aspects (Including Litigation)
2. Accidents and Emergencies Targets
Not Achieved
3. Overload and Stress for Healthcare
Professionals
4. Interface with Social Care
5. Ineffectiveness In Dealing With Chronic
Lifestyle Diseases
6. Prevention as a Low Priority

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Medicine and
Healing Arts
– Financial Aspects

We spend more on the
NHS than ever before.
Last year £140bn was spent
on health across the UK - more
than 10 times the figure that
was spent 60 years ago (after
taking into account inflation).

A bigger proportion of
public spending goes on
health
Governments over the years have
had to invest more and more of
the public purse into it. Today 30p
out of every £1 spent on services
goes on health.

Even during the years of deep
austerity, extra money has
been found for the health
service.
Yet it seems no matter how
much is invested, it's still not
enough. The NHS is creaking
at the seams.

College of
Medicine and
Healing Arts
The Current Crisis of the NHS –
Accidents & Emergencies
Targets Not Achieved

A huge queue of patients on
trolleys stretches into the distance
at a crisis-hit hospital A&E.
The picture posted online shows
the hospital in Stoke, Staffs, where
emergency facilities were
overwhelmed.

Key A&E targets are being
missed.
The barometer of this is the four-
hour A&E target. This is a sign of
whether the system is under
stress - both in the community
and in the hospital.

Demand for A&E is rising.
The numbers visiting A&E have
risen by a third in 12 years.
Two-thirds of hospitals beds are
occupied by people with chronic
conditions.

College of
Medicine and
Healing Arts
The Current Crisis of the NHS –
Overload and Stress for
Healthcare Professionals

'Undervalued' GPs fuelling a 'crisis'

Research by the University of
Exeter Medical School has found
GPs are "fed up" with "unlimited
demands" on them.
Doctors spoke of concerns about
the risk of litigation and
problems with their own health
due to work pressures.

Dr Richard Vautrey, chair of the British
Medical Association GPs committee,
said: "This is a crisis which we've been
pointing out for a number of years."
He said the BMA was regularly
contacted by GPs who are concerned
about workload pressures. “They feel
they're not able to provide safe
patient care.”

'Physically Shaking'

Dr Linda Thomas quit general practice in
Bristol to set up an eco-fashion company.
She said: "At the worst stages I would come
back from a long surgery and I would be
physically shaking because the pressure of
trying to meet the needs of all the people, the
time pressure, the system pressure, just
became so hard... I'm a mum as well, I need
to be a whole human being. I can't just be a
medic and then nothing.”

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Medicine and
Healing Arts
– Interface with Social Care

Fewer older people are
getting help with social
care.
Council-run social care, for example
day centres, help in the home for
tasks such as washing and dressing,
and good quality care in care homes
during the final years of life.

It is seen as essential to keep
people well and living independently
and out of hospital.
In an era when the population is
ageing you would expect more
people to be getting help from the
state. However, the opposite is true.

Costs of care.
The average 65-year-old costs
the NHS 2.5 times more than
the average 30-year-old. An
85-year-old costs more than
five times as much.

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Medicine and
Healing Arts
– Inability to Solve Chronic
Lifestyle Diseases

Chronic Lifestyle Diseases
People are living with a growing
number of long-term chronic
conditions - diabetes, heart disease
and dementia.
By 65, most people will have at
least one of these illnesses. By 75
they will have two.

This is compounded by the rising
cost of new drugs. The health
service is currently considering
capping the amount it will pay for
new drugs at £20m each a year. A
fifth of new treatments coming on
stream cost more than this.

Then there's obesity. A third of adults
are so overweight they are risking
their health significantly.
All this contributes to ‘health
inflation’ – cost of providing care
outstrips normal rise in cost of living
across the economy.

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Medicine and
Healing Arts
Top 10 Causes of
Death Worldwide

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Medicine and
Healing Arts
Complementary and Alternative
Medicine (CAM) in the UK

House of Lords Select Committee on
Science and Technology – Sixth Report of
1999-2000 Session – Complementary and
Alternative Medicine

Facts and Figures
• 50,000 CAM Practitioners in the UK
• 10,000 Statutory registered healthcare
professionals who practice CAM
• 5 million patients consulted CAM professionals
• Estimated UK annual expenditure of £1.6 billion
on CAM (in 1999)

What Types of CAM are Used?
Herbal Medicine 34%
Aromatherapy 21%
Acupuncture 17%
Massage 6%
Reflexology 6%
Osteopathy 4%
Chiropractic 3%

Why Use CAM?
Helps or relieves injury/condition 25%
Just like it 21%
Find it relaxing 19%
Good health/wellbeing 14%
Preventative measure 12%
Do not believe in conventional medicine 11%
Doctor referral 11%
To find out other ways of life 11%
Way of life 8%
Cannot get government treatments 7%

College of
Medicine and
Healing Arts
Practice of Unani
Medicine (Tibb)

Reasons for Patients/Clients
Seeking Our Help
1. Chronic and degenerative lifestyle diseases.
2. Fear of iatrogenic diseases.
3. Seeking safe, effective, sustainable, natural
health care solutions.
4. Seeking balance and wholeness.
5. Seeking meaning and purpose in their
illness and suffering.
6. Looking for wisdom-based approach.

What We Offer
1. Whole-person, individualised approach.
2. Reconnection with self, nature, and the
creator.
3. Personalised lifestyle recommendations.
4. Personalised nutritional recommendations.
5. Safe and effective natural remedies.
6. Time
7. Hope

Individualised Care

Reconnecting With Nature

Personal Prescription

Safe and Effective
Medicines and Products

College of
Medicine and
Healing Arts
Education in Unani
Medicine (Tibb)

The College of Medicine and
Healing Arts (CoMHA)
Registered in England and Wales as a not-for-
profit College. Based in Leicester, England,
UK. The College facilitates professional in-
person training programmes in the UK and
worldwide. The College also provides
community health education programmes in-
person and online. Our underlying philosophy
is one of inclusiveness, seeing unity in diversity.

Locations Worldwide
• Prominent and accessible locations around
the world, including:
1. UK
2. USA
3. New Zealand
4. Morocco
5. Spain

Diversity of Students
1. UK
2. USA
3. New Zealand
4. Australia
5. Belgium
6. Bulgaria
7. Canada
8. Germany
9. France
10.India
11.Italy
12.Morocco
13.Mauritius
14.Malaysia
15.Netherlands
16.Saudi Arabia
17.South Africa
18.Sweden
19.United Arab
Emirates
100s of Learners
Worldwide

Returning to Nature
& Teaching Methods
• Retreat format – away from the daily
grind, spending time in nature.
Experiencing herbs and foods in their
natural habitat.
• Teaching clinics – real working
environments.

Marrakech, Morocco

Granada, Spain

Pennsylvania, USA

Public Health Education –
Free Online Mini-Course
• The 7 Steps to Wholesome Living
FREE Online Mini-Course

Online Programmes
• Life Balance & Healthy Living
Online Unani Tibb Health Programme
Public Health Education for Communities
• The Golden Key to Discovering
Yourself

In-Person Programmes
• Stage 1: Life Balance & Healthy
Living
• Stage 2: Whole-Person Healing &
Medicine

Professional Diplomas
• Diploma in Unani Tibb
Herbal & Naturopathic Medicine
• Diploma in Nafsiyat
Counselling & Psychotherapy

The Guild of Unani Tibb
• Professional association for Unani Tibb
practitioners in the UK, Europe and USA.

College of
Medicine and
Healing Arts
Practice and Education in Unani
Medicine – Opportunities

Opportunities
1. Unani’s wholistic and individualised approach.
2. Interest from the public to adopt a natural, wholistic
approach to their health and wellbeing.
3. The need to solve the current health crisis,
especially chronic lifestyle diseases.
4. Unani’s ability to prevent chronic diseases.
5. Possible harmony and congruence with traditional
herbal medicine – universal and cross-cultural
tradition.
6. Economical and cost-effective.

On 11th February 2019, M Salim Khan was invited to give a
keynote presentation at Parliament Quarters (London, UK),
titled 'Unani for Public Health'. The event was well
attended by MPs, High Commission members from
different countries, and many practitioners and supporters
of traditional healthcare and medicine.

College of
Medicine and
Healing Arts
Practice and Education in
Unani Medicine – Challenges

Challenges
1. Absence of classics of Unani in European languages
(specifically English).
2. Absence of contemporary textbooks for physicians.
3. Lack of relevant information for the public.
4. Lack of trained physicians that are competent and confident in
working in contemporary settings.
5. Lack of accredited, authentic and experienced teachers and
trainers.
6. Infrastructures that can provide and maintain leadership and
care irrespective of cultural, ethnic and religious differences.
7. Lack of public demonstration that Unani products are safe,
effective, and sustainably and ethically produced.
8. Lack of finances.

It is in this context that Unani medicine
can play an important role in healing
and nurturing an ailing humanity.

Thank You For
Your Participation

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