PsychoPhysiology and their functions correspond to each other.
Each faculty gives rise to a specific function and each function
is an expression of its corresponding faculty. It is therefore proposed
to deal with each other. There are 3 faculties in the body and 3
types of functions arising from them. The faculties are
1. Nervous 2. Physical and 3. Vital
The Unani Physicians also described
Hawas - e - Khamsa Zahira - external senses
Hawas - e - Khamsa Batina - internal senses
The External senses are:
1.Quwat - e - Basira - Power of Vision
2.Quwat - e - Shamma - Power of Smell
3.Quwat - e - Sameyah - Power of Hearing
4. Quwat - e - Zayeqa - Power of Taste
5.Quwat - e - Lamesa - Power of Touch
The Internal senses are:
1. Hiss - e- Mushtarik (Faculty of Composit Sense)
2. Quwat - e - Mutasarriefa (Faculty of Modification)
a. Quwat - e - Mutafakirra (Faculty of Thinking)
b. Quwat - e - Mutakhaiela (Faculty of Imaginations)
c. Quwat - e - Wahema (Faculty of Apprehension)
The process of metabolism is completed by two factors
(a) Nutritive power and (b) Growing power.
Nutritive power is developed from the food taken in the liver and
conveyed to all parts of the body. This power is served by four
powers -
Attractive Power, Retentive Power, Digestive Power & Explusive
Power
Growing power is responsible for the construction & growth
of the human organism and served by three powers - Receptive Power,
Power to retain nutrition & Assimilative Power.
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