Diseases enter by the Mouth! In Thirty Six Dishes are Seventy Two Diseases!(Post No.14,991)

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Post No. 14,991

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Proverbs on Doctors- 3

The doctor cures the sick man who does not die.

Diseases enter by the mouth.

–Japanese

God keep me from judge and  doctor.

To the place where sun doesn’t come, comes the doctor..

Ask not advice from a doctor; ask from a sufferer.

Half a doctor loses your health; half a priest your faith

–Turkish

It is the physician that breaks the rules of health.

The doctor said, ‘I have lanced many boils, but none pained like my own’.

The new doctor gives opium

Are there delightful diseases and luscious medicines

–Hindi proverbs

The doctor has ringworm in his nose.

Half a doctor is a danger to life; half a mullah is a danger to faith.

The disease will go by the doctor’s shop, but the habit will never go.

First farming, next trade, last service or at least begging; if you cannot get alms, learn to be a doctor.

Fomentation is half a doctor.

When the need is ended a fig for the doctor

Sarada (Sarath season is rainy season considered unhealthy period) is the mother of the doctors.-Marathi

In thirty six dishes are seventy two diseases – Punjabi proverb

Although the garlic has been eaten, the disease is not cured.

A ruined alchemist a capital doctor

Fasting is the best medicine.

Poison is the remedy for poison.

In the time of sickness there is no rule (no need to follow the usual religious rituals)- Sanskrit 

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748. ஆயிரம் பெயரைக் கொன்றவன் அரைவைத்தியன்.
He who has killed a thousand persons is half a doctor.

(This proverb is in many countries; mostly it is ascribed to young doctors in European Proverbs)


4382. நோயாளி விதியாளி ஆனால் பரிகாரி பேராளி ஆவான்.
If destiny favours the patient, his doctor will obtain fame.

4533. பரிகாரி உறவு தெருவாசல் மட்டும்.
The friendship of the doctor ends at the threshold.

4568. பழம் புண்ணாளி பாதிவைத்தியன்.
He who has an old sore is half a doctor.

4382. நோயாளி விதியாளி ஆனால் பரிகாரி பேராளி ஆவான்.
If destiny favours the patient, his doctor will obtain fame.

6069. வைத்தியன் பெரிதோ வாத்தி பெரிதோ?
Which is greater, a physician or a schoolmaster?

6070. வைத்தியனுக்கும் வாத்திக்கும் பேதம் இல்லை.
A physician and a-schoolmaster never disagree.

6071. வைத்தியன் எல்லாருக்கும் பொது.
A physician is common to all.

6072. வைத்தியம் வேண்டாதார் உலகில் இல்லை.
There is no one on earth who does not require the services of a physician.

6073. வைத்தியம் வாயாடிக்குப் பலிக்கும்.
A loquacious doctor is successful.

6074. வைத்தியம் எல்லாம் நம்பிக்கையாற் பலிக்கும்.
Faith in medicine makes it effectual.

6075. வைத்தியனுக்கும் அஞ்சவேண்டும், வம்பனுக்கும் அஞ்சவேண்டும்.
One must fear a doctor as well as a traitor.

6076. வைத்தியமோ பைத்தியமோ?
Is it medical skill or madness?

6077. வைத்தியன் சொன்னது எல்லாம் மருந்து.
Whatever a physician prescribes is a remedy.

6078. வைத்தியனுக்குத் தன் அவிழ்தம் பலிக்காதாம்.
It is said that a physician cannot cure himself.

6079. வைத்தியன் தகப்பன் போல.
A physician is like a father.

6080. வைத்தியனே பெரிது என்பார் சிலர், வாத்தியே பெரிது என்பார் சிலர்.
Some will say that a physician is greater than a schoolmaster, and others, that a teacher is greater than a physician.

6081. வைத்தியன் பாராத நோய் தீருமா?
Can a disease be cured without treatment?

6082. வைத்தியன் பிள்ளை நோயினால் அல்ல, மருந்தினால் சாகும்.
A doctor’s child dies, not by disease, but by medicine.

6083. வைத்தியனுக்கு ஊரார் யாவரும் சினேகிதர்.
The whole town is friendly to a physician.

6084. வைத்தியத்தில் இரண வைத்தியமும், வயதில் எவ்வனமும்நல்லது.
As regards medical science, surgery – in regard to age, youth are preferable.

6085. வைத்தியனே உன்னையே குணமாக்கு.
Physician, heal thyself.

6086. வைத்தியம் செய்தவன் எல்லாம் வைத்தியன்.
Every medical practitioner is a physician.

6087. வைத்தியம் கொஞ்சமாகிலும் தெரியாத பேர்கள் இல்லை.
There is none that does not know, at least, a little of medicine.

6088. வைத்தியன் மருந்திலும் கைமருந்தே நலம்.
Domestic medicine is preferable to that of a physician.

6089. வைத்தியன் பெரிதோ மருந்து பெரிதோ?
Which is greater, a physician or his medicine?

6090. வைத்தியன் பேச்சு நாலில் ஒரு பங்கு.
But a fourth part of a quack’s pretensions proves to be true.

6091. வைத்தியனுக்கு வந்தது அவன் தலையோடே.
The malady of a physician cleaves to him till death.

6092. வைத்திய சாஸ்திரம் சாஸ்திரங்களில் விசேஷம்.
Medical science is the most important of all sciences.

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MEDICINE

339. அரைப்பணம் கொடுக்கப் பால்மாறி, ஐம்பது பொன் கொடுத்துச் சேர்வை செய்த கதை.
A story of one who gave fifty gold pieces for a compound medicine after having hesitated to give half a fanam.

531. அனுபோகம் தொலைந்தால் அற்ப அவிழ்தமும் பலிக்கும்.
Even a common medicine may prove effectual after a disease has passed the crisis.

579. ஆகிற காலத்தில் அவிழ்தம் பலிக்கும்.
If favoured by fortune medicine will take effect in due time.

1074. இலங்கணம் பரம ஒளஷதம்.
Abstinence is the best medicine.

1122. இறங்கு பொழுதிலே மருந்து குடி.
Take medicine at sun-set.

1128. இறைச்சி தின்கிறவர் கடுப்புக்கு மருந்து அறிவார்.
They who live on flesh are acquainted with the medicine for tooth ache.


1574. எருதின் புண்ணிற்குச் சாம்பல் மருந்து.
Ashes are medicine for the sores of a bull.

1639. எவன் ஆகிலும் தான் சாக மருந்து உண்பானா?
Will any one takemedicine to poison, himself?

2246. கழுதைப் புண்ணுக்குப் புழுதி மருந்து.
Dust is medicine for the gores of an ass.

2572. குஞ்சிரிப்புக்கு மருந்து சாப்பிட உள்ள சிரிப்பும் போனாற் போல.
As if one lost his natural smile by taking medicine to induce a simpering expression.

To be continued……………………….

Tags- Proverbs, on Doctors, Medicines, Physicians, Part 3

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