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Yunani Cure

Yunani medicine is similar to the alopathy. It started in ancient Greece and then Rome and had some effect of the ancient Egyptian influence. After the rise of Islam it was absorbed by the Islam. On Hindus it came first through the invasion of Alexander the Great and then through Islam.

When an Hindu patient is suffering from mental hallucination or possed and does not do normal things Yunani methods may be applied. e.g. physical torture combined with medicinal potions at certain time of the night. etc.