Ayurveda lays emphasis
on the above-mentioned old dictum because it gives utmost importance to the
diet of the patient when it comes to fight back an illness or disease. The aforementioned
old dictum means that a person will not require medicine if he is following a
wholesome diet plan or eating a balanced diet because he will not fall ill; and he will not require medicine either if he is not on a
wholesome diet or if his diet is faulty because no medicine will help him in
this case without a proper diet.
There is an interesting story in this connection
– an Ayurveda doctor or physician advised a patient suffering from stomachache to
have his eyes treated. The advice astonished the patient but he followed the
physician’s advice and got his eyes treated, and the he never suffered that
kind f stomachache in the future. The advice was correct because the patient had
told the physician that he got stomachache after he had eaten a burnt chapatti
(he had eye sight problem). Had he not committed that indiscretion, he would
not have suffered from that malady.