The six tastes in food items are composed of the five elements.So food is one of the major factors resulting in diseases. While treatment of the disease, the bad effects caused should be corrected or reversed. Some diet restrictions are unavoidable.
Common Vaatha Pathiyam Kaba Pathiyam Piththam Pathiyam High Blood Pressure (BP) Pathiyam Diabetes Pathiyam Skin Disease Pathiyam Cancer Pathiyam Melugu Pathiyam Piles Pathiyam Period Pathiyam Bethy Marunthu Pathiya Murivu What is Pazhaiya Kanji? S.M. Pathiyam Pancha Sotha MeluguPathiyam is the word given specifically to stop food is not suites our body. Pathiyam treats a patient from pain and illness. Misconception of the word pathiyam among the public can be wiped off after reading this article.
Pathiyam word does not mean not to eat. Actually it means eating things according to individual Physical and virtual constitution.
Thirumoolar says Sidtha type of treatment is not only to give relief to the patients perhaps to prevent further occurrence of disease.
Pini anuga vithi
Disease prevention is the concept of kaayakarpam.
Healthy person also need to follow some food restrictions to stay healthy and live longer.
These rules when followed strictly, keep us away from disease.
Thirumoolar in thirumanthiram says that maintaining a healthy body is essential as it holds a healthy mind which is required to attain salvation.
அண்டத்தில் உள்ளது பிண்டம் பிண்டத்தில் உள்ளது அண்டம் (சட்டை முனி நாதர்)
This means that the environment is same within and outside our body which indicates that the body physiology must be tuned according to the habitat and the prevailing season as an adaptive and preventure measure for health.
ஆரோக்கிய பத்தியம்
Intake of thuvarpu (Astringent) taste - eatables like flowers of musa paradisica, tender fruit pomegranate fruit, guava ( nattu koyya ) are useful to diabetic patients not only to control the disease and also to prevent the complications.
Taking bitter gourd juice; boiling gymnema sylvestra; eating fresh neem in empty stomach is very famous among diabetic patients.
What happens is, they get extra bitter in the body and it causes itchiness. In Sidtha we diagnose that as mega arippu.