Root Cause Analysis
Around 5 years ago I started my curious quest of learning about food. The drive was simply my figure at that time, I was weighing close to 80 Kgs and had a (little big) belly. It made me feel sick and wanted to slim back to the figure I was in my college days. It isn't a great thing I started, you know messing around with something and try to fix it back. At the same time, living with the mess is worst.
My long years of working as a Health and Safety professional had spoilt my thought process 😉 and always made me to think the root causes of issues before I look for solutions. It first landed me in to a question of why I was over weight (practically I was not that heavy, but by experience)?
I have been reading about the different diet regimes, medicine systems, exercise and weight loss ideas. I got influenced and admired by the Indian medicine system - Naturopathy, Siddha medicine & Ayurvedha. I found a sense of completeness from the Indian medicine systems. I identified the root causes for the issues I was experiencing, it was like a treasure hunt and they had all the solutions for the root causes as well.
If I make a comparison between the Eastern and Western medicine systems:
The first and foremost Preventive care -
East gives importance for preventive care where as the west is interested only in curative care (or very little focus on preventive care). It is not just saying "prevention is better than cure", but the East has a very high emphasis on the preventive care. Eastern medicines systems have many thousands of prescriptions as how to Keep up a good health (not just staying away from disease). One example to quote is about "eating food only when you are hungry" not just eat when its time to eat. The digestive system prepares itself to deal with the food when you are really hungry, otherwise its a overloading of the digestive system which will lead to improper digestion of the food.
The idea of treatment of disease -
THIRUKURAL one of the oldest scriptures in Indian languages (one of the oldest in world), known as the book of ethics which describes anything and everything in human life. The book THIRUKURAL has a structure of 10 couplets (two line verses) per chapter and has 133 chapters under three volumes. We stick to what THIRUKURAL talks about the medicine. It has a chapter on Medicine and the most important verses of all is,
நோய்நாடி நோய்à®®ுதல் நாடி அதுதணிக்குà®®்
வாய்நாடி வாய்ப்பச் செயல்.
Translation:
Disease, its cause, what may abate the ill:
Let leech examine these, then use his skill.
My long years of working as a Health and Safety professional had spoilt my thought process 😉 and always made me to think the root causes of issues before I look for solutions. It first landed me in to a question of why I was over weight (practically I was not that heavy, but by experience)?
I have been reading about the different diet regimes, medicine systems, exercise and weight loss ideas. I got influenced and admired by the Indian medicine system - Naturopathy, Siddha medicine & Ayurvedha. I found a sense of completeness from the Indian medicine systems. I identified the root causes for the issues I was experiencing, it was like a treasure hunt and they had all the solutions for the root causes as well.
If I make a comparison between the Eastern and Western medicine systems:
The first and foremost Preventive care -
East gives importance for preventive care where as the west is interested only in curative care (or very little focus on preventive care). It is not just saying "prevention is better than cure", but the East has a very high emphasis on the preventive care. Eastern medicines systems have many thousands of prescriptions as how to Keep up a good health (not just staying away from disease). One example to quote is about "eating food only when you are hungry" not just eat when its time to eat. The digestive system prepares itself to deal with the food when you are really hungry, otherwise its a overloading of the digestive system which will lead to improper digestion of the food.
The idea of treatment of disease -
THIRUKURAL one of the oldest scriptures in Indian languages (one of the oldest in world), known as the book of ethics which describes anything and everything in human life. The book THIRUKURAL has a structure of 10 couplets (two line verses) per chapter and has 133 chapters under three volumes. We stick to what THIRUKURAL talks about the medicine. It has a chapter on Medicine and the most important verses of all is,
நோய்நாடி நோய்à®®ுதல் நாடி அதுதணிக்குà®®்
வாய்நாடி வாய்ப்பச் செயல்.
Translation:
Disease, its cause, what may abate the ill:
Let leech examine these, then use his skill.
The meaning of the verse is as follows "diagnose the
disease - identify the root cause of the disease - address the root cause and treat the disease. So that
the disease is eliminated". It prescribes to treat the root cause to get
relief and eliminate the disease. It is amazing that THIRUVALLUVAR who is the
author of the book has defined the root cause analysis many thousand years
before.
The western medicine which is influenced by the health care business has not developed the interest in
preventive care right from the time of its development.
A joke comes to my mind. A guy goes to a tailor to make a suit for his wedding. The tailor a very clever guy just by seeing him tells his shirt size, blazer size, waist size etc. Surprised by this, the person asks the tailor what is the size of his underwear. This time the guy and the tailor had a dispute, tailor says it 95 cm and the guy says its 85 cm. Finally the tailor explains him, if he is wearing a size 85 cm underwear, his groin will get squeezed and he will end up with migraine headache. And the guy before coming to the tailor, was visiting his doctor for a treatment for migraine. This is not an exaggeration but the reality of the health care today.
A joke comes to my mind. A guy goes to a tailor to make a suit for his wedding. The tailor a very clever guy just by seeing him tells his shirt size, blazer size, waist size etc. Surprised by this, the person asks the tailor what is the size of his underwear. This time the guy and the tailor had a dispute, tailor says it 95 cm and the guy says its 85 cm. Finally the tailor explains him, if he is wearing a size 85 cm underwear, his groin will get squeezed and he will end up with migraine headache. And the guy before coming to the tailor, was visiting his doctor for a treatment for migraine. This is not an exaggeration but the reality of the health care today.
We continue a little more on the Eastern medicine systems in
the next article.
Cheers!
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