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Basic Codes of Medical Practice & Food Consumption Practice as per "Thirukkural"
Author: virarajendra
Basic Codes of Medical Practice & Food Consumption Practice as per
“
Thirukkural
”
“
Thurukkural
”
is a treatise on the Code of Ethics - in Tamil composed almost 2043 years ago by the
Tamil Sage/Poet Thiruvalluvar
, and staged at the 3rd Thamil Sangam at Mathurai in Tamil Nadu, in the presense of the Paandiyan king around the year B.C.31. It has 133 - chapters speaking on various topics of life, with each chapter having 10 - Kurals (Kural= a two lined verse) on a particular topic. The chapter 95 in same is titled as "Medicine" and has some useful
"
basic codes" on Medical and Food Consumption Practices
that prevailed '
at that time in Tamil Nadu
'. The brief translation of these ten Tamil Kurals with words added for more clarity, are as appended below.
(1) Practice of Medical Science - comprises of the
Patient
, the
Doctor
,
Medicines
that cures the illness, and the
Nursing Aides
.
(2) The Doctor in his practice of the Medical Science - should diagonise the
type of Patient’s illness
,
the root cause of his illness
, and
analyse the method of curing
the illness.
(3) The Doctor in his practice of the Medical Science - at the time of diagnosis give thought to the
age of the Patient
, the
extent of his illness
, and the
period of illness
.
(4) The People who take
much more
or
much less
food than their normal intake, will be subject to
three root causes
of illness (the Vaatham, Piththam and Kapam) as indicated in the Medical Science.
(5) The People who have their normal intake of food among them the happiness prevail, but
among the glutinous prevail all the illness
.
(6) The People who have the normal intake of food
increase the longevity of their life
.
(7) The People who
take food after the complete digestion of the previous intake
, will not require medicines for themselves.
(8) The People should
do away the food that are known to disagree with their body
to prevent illness that cause damage to life.
(9) The People
overeating beyond actual measure of their hunger
, the illness will dominate beyond measure.
(10) The People who
eat with restraint not beyond the routine food
(at odd times) there is no harm to their life.
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