PRINCIPLES OF PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF DISEASES

           Since disease is a "disorder", it can be corrected or prevented; either

            (i) By manipulating the root "cause" of the disease, e.g., "infectious" diseases can be prevented by keeping our surroundings and environment clean, or maintaining good hygiene or better sanitation, good ventilation, preventing over-crowding, etc. Similarly, "deficiency" diseases can be checked by providing healthy balanced nutrition to all.

            But, all the above-mentioned methods are only able to prevent the exposure to a disease. However, if a person is born with some defective organ or malfunction or the disease has already struck, despite precautions, then has already struck, despite precautions, then the second step has to be undertaken, which is prevention of the disease.

       
                (2) By killing or preventing the "cause" of the disease-There are two ways of "preventing" the disease from occurring one which is present in the body itself, the immune system and the other is "extrinsic" mechanism, which is operated from the outside, i.e., the use of medicines or vaccines.