Medicine (By St. Thiruvalluvar) Poem by Rajendran Muthiah

941.With less or more food and work, the wise count the three
Gout, bile and phlegm starting from the wind cause disease.
942.If you eat, after the food already taken digested,
No need of medicine to your body.
943.Protect your body to live long eating fit measure of food
After digestion of food eaten before.
944.Knowing on the digestion of food already eaten,
Eat when you are hungry, food suitable to your body.
945.You don’t feel sick eating faultless food in right measure
Disregarding the quantity your mind desires to eat.
946.With the dieters pleasure remains
But with the gluttons, disease stays put.
947.If you eat more meal, unsuitable, beyond the limits
Of hunger, you will be afflicted with ills more.
948.A physician should treat by diagnosing the disease
Tracing the causes and using right method to cure.
949.The physician should know the condition of the patient
And his illness, and the time to medicate, before treat him.
950.The quartet of medical science, the patient, physician,
medicine and the compounder consists a quartet each.