Acceptability of Medicines

Sometimes, a poor background presents a few presents, which act as a kind of blessing in disguise. One such benefit is the focus on food during meals! There was nothing else to distract while eating, when I was a kid! As simple as that! And added to that was the lack of electricity to light up that humble bulb (the only source of light then), for the two months of summer holidays, when we paid our annual visit to native place. So the night meals (dinner) was soon after the music was played at a nearby temple, to announce the closure of the sanctum sanctorum, for that day (no wall clock, to decide the dinner time!). My grandmother would ‘allow’ food to be served to the children first at the dim lights of a small lamp, and then others would eat soon after. When this kind of focus happens due to compulsions of situation, the ‘nature of focus’ that we are required to perform with, turns into a pattern, which our very system, our very anatomy gets tuned to, as a sort of second nature, or habit. Something like an embedded program, a default functionality of a gadget. That is exactly the point I wished to state as my experience. Well, this, incidentally does impact a few other traits, in a very subtle manner.

We often hear that the ‘body rejects the medicine’ in the case of a ‘sinking’ patient. I used to wonder, how the body would ‘reject’ something. I could understand that the body is unable to accept something (may be in the “present-form” like some of those draft-enactments that the opposition members of parliament, reject, for sheer sake of diplomacy!). Yes, some un-chewed items of food stuff manages to escape all the check-posts of our digestive system, during its journey through it, and we may find it ‘in-tact’ the next day. That is the idea of ‘present-form’ (presented form too!).

Doctors keep changing the brand names of drugs during frequent visit, just to make sure that some ‘presented-form’ of that drug gets accepted by the patient’s body. This pattern is common with people of ‘rigid’ attitude. (Maybe, to some extent, the doctor ‘obliges’ the recent-most visitor-medical-representative of that brand, also).

What is surprising, is that children seem to accept a few types of tastes like bitter, sour (the two variations of sour), when the ‘presenting’ hands change! So, I felt there is something about that negative-positive attitude too!

I felt tempted to give out some additional inputs, just to inspire a focus on the aspect of ‘focus’ on food, when a question came up about negative attitude, and its lesser positive action of medicines on such people.

Psn(7^th April, 2011)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110404202555AAJ49Sm

Do you think medicines never act positively on the people who have negative attitude for life?

Additional details:

This question is asked for those who have lost interest in life and medication is not working on them at all......EVery .doctor says only positive attitude for life can create miracle with medicine.....now whom to blame doctor ,medicine or patient .

My answer:

Yes. To a significant extent.
The exception is when medicines are administered under anesthetic. Even then, the attitude causes some negativity at the cellular level, and it makes the medicine less acceptable, than the ideal condition where a normal dose brings a desirable level of result.
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Even when eating food, it does matter, if we are paying attention to the food that we eat. When the brain or mind is inattentive, the stomach barely 'manages' to digest to some extent, and throws out many nutrients as waste due to mistaken identity. The taste buds send signal to the brain which in turn tells the stomach to excrete the correct fluids to digest that particular food. We notice this in a very 'pronounced' manner when we watch children eating 'tasty' or 'delicious' food very eagerly. Another example is, the food that helps to 'pick' up the tools/raw-materials, to form eyes, etc for a child in the womb, the brain tells the tongue to 'seek' sour type of food. Please see, when a large slice of a sour mango is bitten suddenly, the eyes squeeze and close, naturally! A pregnant lady requests for that sour dishes during the early months of pregnancy. Traditionally, there is a practice to give a large variety of sour dishes to that lady. The stomach picks up varieties of 'ingredients'/raw materials, to help the formation of healthy pair of eyes, and /or other organs, and does the necessary task. The cells of blood, etc are having very good cellular-level-intelligence to do its job, without our interference, or our own deep knowledge about anatomy. But we have to do some minimum contribution of ''participation' in the food/medicine/whatever. Now, in ancient India, they made this into a tradition/ritual, to treat food as sacred, to pray before meals, etc. , so that people would automatically pay the required attention to taste buds, obey basic laws of eating only when hungry, chewing properly, never wasting precious food etc. So we had fewer dis-ease cases then. Now it is Fast-food, junk-food, chemical-medicines, commercial-doctors, needless-checklists(scan, lab-tests, specialists who charge 'extra'.... and what not!). All this contributes to the 'aam aadmi' becoming unwilling to retain a positive attitude towards medicines/medical expenses/etc.
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It is a matter of choice, now , whom to blame (except ourselves, of course). Fortunately, there is no law as yet, to just 'blame'. The problem will come only when we try to en-cash that blame (seeking compensation for inadequate medical care!).
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Awareness is the only solution. Awareness may deepen perception. Deeper perception would improve clarity. Better clarity would pave way to positive action, instead of futile indulgence in 'blame-game'.
(Hope this lengthy answer would find a way to seek some tolerance with the readers!)