Human abo blood groups and their associations with mizāj (Temperament)

Abstract

Mizāj (Temperament) is one of the basic concepts of Unani system of medicine upon which diagnosis and line of treatment of a disease are based. Every human being has been furnished a specific Mizaj through which an individual performs his functions properly. If it is disturbed, body becomes more susceptible to develop such diseases having same temperament as that of an individual. This paper is to depict the analysis of relation between mizaj with blood group (ABO system) in healthy individuals. It was found that blood group is not associated with the mizaj of an individual. Instead, DAMVI MIZAJ was found to be predominant among all blood groups. This study showed higher frequency of group B followed by group O, A and AB in given sample of population.