There
are several ways of diagnosis through which diseases can be known. In
the Siddha system the definite principle adopted in diagnosing the disturbed
Dathu individually or in combination with one or two of the remaining
Dathus, is the application of the science of Pulsation. In order to ensure
the diagnosis of the faults of the Dathus, there are also additional tests
adopted and they are body as whole, voice, tongue, eye, exereta, urine,
external appearance of the patient, etc.
Further
tests are also employed on the principles of Neerkuri (symptoms exhibited
by gingelly oil dropped over the surface of urine of the patient) Naicheelai
or Neercheelai and Manikkadai Nadi. The patients daily habits in life,
changes and symptoms which suddenly developed by him together with the
predisposing factors such as sleeplessness, state of digestion, appetite,
sexual intercourse, exposure to sun or cold etc. Prior to disease should
be ascertained, without a clear knowledge of the internal root causes
of a disease no proper diagnosis is possible.
It
is therefore very essential to study beforehand what were the inward changes
and the first visible outward manifestations. The last method of diagnosis
is by putting a series of questions to the patient on doubtful points
for purposes of verification. This is the commonest in all systems and
there is not likely to be any disease that would baffle these methods
of diagnosis. Prognoses involves the investigation of various factors
about the patient whether existing in his body or out side it; and also
these factors which lead to the lowered state of resistance or natural
vitality of the patients to be discovered in the various organs of the
patients and his environments and so, it is an approximate estimate of
the state of natural resistance, as it existed in the state of health
or the individual or as it exists during the state of his illness. But
diagnosis of the disease with the factors which enable the physician to
recognize the disease fully and so, it is an approximate measure or estimate
of the nature extent or violence of the disease through the derangement
of the three humours of the system.
NOTE:
1. Observation
- observing smell, taste, features of facial expressions,
2.
Experiment - examination of sense organs of urine, faeces and tastes pulses
and heart beat
3.
Questioning the patient on several points as regards duration of disease,
his sufferings and habits in respect of food and drink and the digestion
or indigestion , sleep, vitality and strength, the state of mind and mental
troubles.
The
Siddhars are of opinion that it is only spiritual knowledge endowed with
inner vision that will enable a physician to diagnose a disease at a sight
and suggest forthwith remedies therefore. In order to enable a physician
to learn more about the accessory factors or signs of the disease, more
elaborate and expensive laboratory methods of the modern days, are nor
at all necessary as they would only tend to leave the physicians quite
in the dark, who judging as to the nature of the disease inside the body,
which alone is really beneficial from a therapeutical point of view, according
to Siddha system. This is an important point to be noted in mind by those
preferring to sail in the natural, essential and righteous path.
Therefore,
the examination of the patients on these principles is the first duty
in Siddha as well as Ayurveda physicians before the applies or employs
any therapeutical remedy. |
