Review Article
Year: 2019 | Month: October | Volume: 9 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 157-164
Concept of Quwwat Nāmiya (Augmentative Faculty) in Unani Medicine: An Analytical Review
Kehkashan1, Ferasat Ali2
1PG Scholar, 2Professor,
D/o Kulliyat, F/o Unani Medicine, Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College, A.M.U, Aligarh
Corresponding Author: Kehkashan
ABSTRACT
There are three kind of faculty, and therefore of functions proceeding there from, namely; the vital faculty (Quwā Ḥaywāniyya), the natural faculty (Quwā Ṭabī‘iyya) and the psychic faculty (Quwā Nafsāniyya). Augmentative faculty(Quwwat Nāmiya/ power of growth) comes under the natural faculty. Quwwat Nāmiya is the power which is specific for the growth of the body. This power provides dimensions and shape to the body. The nutritive faculty is subservient to this augmentative faculty. Sinn-i-Numū is the period of growth and development. It is dominated as the early period and lasts about thirty years. The period of growth is hot and moist, in this period both Ruṭūbat Gharīziyya as well as Ḥarārat Gharīziyya are dominant. Growth of skeleton continues up to 25 years of age, thereafter epiphyseal cartilages ossify and growth is arrested. Warathah (heredity), Ghidhā (food), Ruṭubat, Akhlāṭ muharrikah (hormones) are the factors that affect Quwwat Nāmiya and control growth. Quwwat Nāmiyaperforms their functions with the help of Growth hormone also called somatotropic hormone or somatotropin. Growth hormone (GH) exerts its multiple effects on every cell. GH secretion is under negative feedback control. Disorders of Quwwat Nāmiya include-acromegaly, gigantism, acromegalic gigantism, dwarfism, acromicria.
Key words: Quwwat Nāmiya, growth hormone, Sinn-i-Namū,Ruṭūbat Gharīziyya.