• Mohd Anus Ansari
• Huma Noor
• Prof. Ashhar Qadeer
• Abul Faiz

Surgery has its sound existence from the ancient times, its evidences are there as in the form of Surgical Papyrus (Edwin Smith’s Papyrus) reflects the features of the Egyptian Medicine (1700 B.C.). Sushrata Samhita a source of Ayurveda also shows the surgical practice in the early Christian era. Later on in the medieval period many doctors of Greeco Arabic medicine earned the fame in this field. The leading surgeons are Abul Qasim Zahravi, Ibn-al-Quf. Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Indian, physicians agreed that animal excrement has valuable medical uses. Herophilus, founder of the great medical school in Alexandria early in the third-century BC, introduced camel dung and camel urine into Greek medicine. The hugely influential Greek physician Galen used pigeon excreta in wound dressings. Primeval Unani scholars like Jalinoos & Ibne Sina categorized the diseases in three forms viz, Sū’ Mizāj, Sū’ Tarkīb, and Tafarruq-i-Ittiṣāl (Discontinuity). Acute abscess is an inflammatory condition (Maraz Murakkab), which has three fates: (1) Taḥallul (Resolution), (2) Taqayyuḥ (Suppuration), (3) Taḥajjur (Fibrosis). Khurāj Hād (acute abscess) is Maraḍ Murakkab due to presence of all three types of Maraḍ. Definition of Khurāj in Unani medicine is that an inflammatory swelling filled with pus and accompanied with redness and pain. Usool e ilaj of abscess is Taṣfiya and Tanqiya. For this Mufajjir-i-Awrām, Muṣaffī and Munaqqi Advia were being used to wipe out Khilṭ e Fasida from the cavity, and to help the body to heal the wound. There is a scientific approach behind the use of pigeon’s excreta which was used as Mufajjir-i-Awrām as it is highly acidic in its white part which helps in the opening of abscess. Today there are chemicals which are being used to change the physiological conditions by altering the pH like Magnesium sulfate topical, Sulphacetamide Sodium topical and Urea topical. Taṣfiya and Tanqiya of Abscess are now done by incision and drainage along with antibacterial, anaesthesis and analgesics drugs. Pigeon poop’s chemicals and their role will be discussed in this paper.

Sū’ Tarkīb, Ilāj bi’l yad, Khurāj, Pigeon’s excreta. Abscess, Unani

"Reasonable and Scientific Application of Pigeon’s Excreta in the Cure of Acute Abscess", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 3, page no.669-672, March-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1803120.pdf

"Reasonable and Scientific Application of Pigeon’s Excreta in the Cure of Acute Abscess", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 3, page no. pp669-672, March-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1803120.pdf