THENTHISAI - HEALTH
மருந்தென வேண்டாவாம் யாக்கைக் கருந்திய
தற்றது போற்றி உணின்.
--- திருவள்ளுவா்
No need of medicine to heal your body’s pain,
If, what you ate before digested well, you eat again
----Thiruvalluvar
Explanation
No medicine is necessary for him who eats after assuring (himself) that what he has (already)
eaten has been digested.
மிகினும் குறையினும் நோய்செய்யும் நூலோர்
வளிமுதலா எண்ணிய மூன்று.
--- திருவள்ளுவா்
The learned books count three, with wind as first; of these,
As any one prevail, or fail; 'twill cause disease.
----Thiruvalluvar
Explanation
If (food and work are either) excessive or deficient, the three things
enumerated by (medical) writers, flatulence, biliousness, and phlegm, will cause (one) disease