ABOUT HAKEEM MURSALEEN
Hakim Mursaleen was a gifted Unani physician/herbalist famous for his expertise in contextual/lifestyle medicines, human temperaments and pulse reading. He was also well-known for his knowledge in pharmacopeia and proprietary herbal remedies.
Hakim Mursaleen (born – 1929 in Delhi, India) was a famous herbalist in the field of Eastern medicines. The third of seven children of a businessperson, Hakim Mursaleen, was a shy but gifted learner with a fertile imagination and herbal know-how.
He grew up in the old city of Delhi, where he learned valuable knowledge about South Asian herbs and their uses from famous herbalists of that time. While learning about the Unani medicinal system and its ancient philosophy, he also learned the art of making herbal medicines at Hamdard, India and gained herbal pharmaceutical knowledge. Calligraphy was also very important to his family, and they encouraged him to learn himself to this form of art along with his studies.
After graduating from Tibbia College Lahore, Hakim Mursaleen became the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer at Hamdard Karachi. In 1950, he went on to establish his medicinal practice and grounded an herbal pharmaceutical unit. Throughout these periods, Hakim Mursaleen displayed a keen curiosity regarding the herbal knowledge and pharmacopeia, accessing it through study, trials and error and personal experimentation. He is passionate about the medicinal practices, love for living creatures/plants and poor people. He is still practicing and contributes to the contextual side of lifestyle diseases and their preventions.
Hakim Mursaleen became interested in the ideas and practices of Unani medicinal system and holistic lifestyle.
He went on to play a seminal role in establishing the intricacies of herbal pharmacopeia and integrative medicine, which aims to combine alternative medicine, conventional evidence-based medicine, Ayurvedic/Siddha and other practices into a higher-order “system of systems” to address human healing via action in multiple “dimensions” (biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual). Hakim Mursaleen has given extensive efforts to popular communication encouraging patients to incorporate inexpensive therapies—use of nutritional supplements, meditation and “spiritual” strategies, etc.—into conventional treatment plans.
Hakeem Mursaleen two clinics, one in Federal B Area Karachi and the other in Badar Commercial in DHA Karachi, are managed by his son, Dr. Muqeem He is a registered Hakeem/tabib with the government of Pakistan.