Abstract
Besides numerous factors like wrong nutrition and physical over exercise also mental states like deep sorrow or extreme joy and extreme anger or lack of equanimity are consideres as causes for disease.
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Additionally the traditional Thai medicine takes into consideration the following influences on our health:[1]
- The elements which must be in an inner as well as an external balance. The earth as an element alone never causes sickness, but if it is included in a disease together with other elements it is a severe case.[2]
- The seasons which threaten human health by heat and cold. Also western medicine is aware of the concentration of certain diseases in some seasons.[3]
- The age, as the influences of the elements can be especially dangerous during certain stages of the life. Age is divided into the young age, having two subsections, one ranging from birth to eight years and one from eight to 16 years; the middle age ranging from 16 to 32 years and the old age which is beyond 32 years.[4]
- The geography, because the geographical region a person lives decides about the seasons and the environmental settings.
- Time, because the moon and the stars are moving continuously and thus influence the person.
- Inadequate behavior.
- Wrong nutrition like taking too much or not enough food or eating food that is opposed to the dominant element.
- Imbalanced positions while sitting, walking, running or sleeping might disturb the balance of the body and so put health at risk.
- Exposition to cold, heat or polluted air.
- Lack of food, water and sleep or rest.
- Undue delay of excrementation and urination.
- Excess of sex, sport or work.
- Deep sorrow or extreme joy.
- Extreme anger or lack of equanimity.[5]
- Cf. Chokevivat / Chuthaputti (2005), p. 2f
- Cf. Mulholland (1979b), p. 62
- Cf. Mulholland (1979a), p. 98
- Cf. Mulholland (1979a), p. 101
- Cf. Chokevivat / Chuthaputti (2005), p. 2f
- Cf. Brun / Schumacher (1994), p. 12
- Cf. Mulholland (1979b), p. 31
- Cf. Mulholland (1979b), p. 31
- Cf. Mulholland (1979a), p. 98
Bibliography
Brun, V. / Schumacher, T. (1994): Traditional Herbal Medicine in Northern Thailand. Bangkok 1994.
Chokevivat, V. / Chuthaputti, A. (2005): The Role of Thai Traditional Medicine in Health Promotion. Working Paper. 6GCHP Bangkok Thailand 2005 7-11 August 2005 Bangkok, Thailand.
Mulholland, J. (1979a): Thai Traditional Medicine: Ancient Thought and Practice in a Thai Context. In: Journal of the Siam Society 2/1979. P. 80-115.
Mulholland, J. (1979b): Thai Traditional Medicine – The Treatment of Diseases Caused by the Tridosa. In: The South East Asian Review 2/1979. P. 29-38.
