Nasreen Jahan

ABSTRACTOne of the most powerful relationships is in between a mother’s health and her child’s overall development. Throughout the world, especially in the developing countries, there is an increasing concern and interest in maternal and child health care. Woman is major determinant for her family’s development and indirectly to a nation so higher priority should be laid on policies for woman and child health. Unani can help improving Mother and Child Health (MCH) through increased access to low cost high quality healthcare, free from undesirable side-effects. This article emphasizes the Unani ways to conserve and maintain MCH so as to provide a healthy environment to upcoming generation. It highlights the potentials of Unani medicine and suggests ways to adopt these practices. Keywords: Mother and child health; MCH; Unani Medicine; AYUSH; Maternal.

Ever since the dawn of history, women and men have wanted to be able to decide when and whether to have a child, thus contraceptives were used in one form or another for thousands of years throughout human history and even prehistory. In fact, family planning has always been widely practiced intentionally or unintentionally, even in societies dominated by social, political or religious codes that require people to ‘be fruitful and multiply.’ Although, the concept of family planning emerges in early 8th decade of 20th century (1971) when the world’s gross population surpass 3 billion with accelerating growth rate, but the use of contraception dated back to almost 4000 years. Here in this article authors try their best to collect the literature in the support of use of contraceptive methods and agents throughout the history.