AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF BUDDHIST AND MODERN HEALTH CARE PRINCIPLES

Abstract

This academic article presents to study on the principle of patient
treatment in accordance with Buddhist approach and modern treatment analyze the
principle of patient treatment in accordance with Buddhist approach and modern
treatment.

In the physical treatment there were 3 approaches included: Medical
Treatment, natural therapies, and it was the treatment through the power of mind,
but in the mental treatment, it was healed through the insight development, that is
to say; How to use the wisdom to consider and realize as what really it is happened
in compounded things. There were 2 levels of the guidelines for solving of the

problems involving with the sickness made by the lord Buddha namely: Lokiya level-
its target was aimed atsuffering relief, and Lokuttara level-its target was aimed at

accomplishment of Nirvana, both of them could be brought for utilization as suitable
and necessary according to the need of each person very well. The lord Buddha had
placed 2 main categories of the guideline for solving of the health problems
included: How to make the diseases treatment with Dhamma medicine and how to
bring various high groups of doctrines for sickness and illness healing.

The principle of patient treatment in accordance with Buddhist Approach
and modern treatment [Alternative Medicine] was actually the approach used for
prevention of diseases being occurred to human beings in both physical and mental
aspects, but in the opposite side if our health had to be taken care first, the
treatment with different approaches would have to be made according to symptoms
of the disease,this was just only one level of the treatment, when our body had to
be changed, what is the best approach of treatment, is prevention or taking care of
our health first, because we had already known the cause of each disease very well,
then the balance of our body had to be adjusted with different approaches such as
food consumption, exercise, mind training, living with natural and appropriate
hygienic condition which is the treatment being harmonious with the principle of
patient treatment in accordance with Buddhist approach and modern treatment,
because it was the treatment emphasized on the cause of the disease.