AN ANALYSIS STUDY OF DISEASES IN THAI TRADITIONAL MEDICINE TEXTS AND DISEASES IN BUDDHISM

Abstract

This research has 3 objectives (1) to study the concept of disease in the traditional Thai medicine textbook (2) to study the concept of disease in Theravada Buddhism (3) to study and analyze the disease in Thai traditional medicine and Buddhism. Doctrine

The results of the research found that Thai traditional medicine considering disease or illness is caused by an imbalance within the patient or unbalanced with external and environmental balance in the composition of the human body consisting of four elements: soil, water, wind, fire. The disease in Buddhism consists of physical disease, and mental disease, namely illness, discomfort, congenital disease is a persistent disease that is incurable which a problem is for every human being. The problem of life is the suffering which may be a latent disease without any abnormalities. Abnormal conditions that occur causes discomfort, painfully mordant feeling, or there are unusual symptoms shown..

The results of the analysis of diseases in Thai traditional medicine and Buddhism are the same in the sense of disease and treatment. They would be in the nature of the Dhamma, namely the Four Noble Truths, which consist of diseases: Dukha - the suffering, Samuthaya - the cause of the disease. The healing is Nirot, and the method of treatment is Magha that the disease and the difference is how to treat Thai traditional medicine to heal at the level of lokiya, but in the way of Buddhism worldly pleasure, and could could heal the disease at the level of the Lokiya escape the suffering to reach Loguttara-supermundane.