Unani Medicine: Optimize Your Sleep for Health, Understand Your Body's Needs

• Unani medicine emphasizes balancing sleep and wakefulness for good health, considering sleep crucial for body repair.
• Sleep allows the body's internal energy, 'Ruh-e-Hayat', to preserve and repair damaged parts, balancing digestion and calming the mind.
• Lack of sleep leads to weakness, irritability, and impaired thinking; excessive wakefulness causes heat, dryness, affecting brain, eyes, and nerves.
• Excessive sleep is also harmful, increasing 'burudat' (coldness) and 'rutubat' (excess moisture), leading to lethargy, obesity, and poor digestion.
• Sleep needs vary by temperament and age: children require more, elderly less; hot temperaments need balanced sleep, cold temperaments should avoid oversleeping.