MIND YOUR MEDICINES: EPISODES

 

An Introduction:  Part 1

I am presenting a series of blogs entitled “Mind your medicines” in a sincere attempt to help people build preventive measures and protect themselves from falling into hell. Come on, hold my hands in this journey to relax if you wish. Remember “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”

Medicines may not be made in heaven, but will certainly help you jump out of hell. Already we have umpteen number of health problems and accordingly the innumerable number of medicines. In fact, the present scenario reflects a race between the two. Medicine and life have become inseparable. From the day of conception, birth to last breath, life has become over-dependent on pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.

No doubt, there are a number of agencies working day and night to weed out these dreaded health issues. It is a congregation of experts involving all aspects of the manufacture of a health-saving drug. Research and Development wings of these industries, many independent research laboratories all over the world, with lots and lots of investment of money, time, and labour, are striving hard to keep men healthy.

Various preventive measures, Intellectual Propriety Rights, associating governing laws, safety measures, and drug Inspection agencies do exist in almost all countries. But the prime question is the problem of monitoring each and every individual as he picks up the medicine, swallows, and follows/never follows the instructions. Leave aside, picking up the medicine, what the person decides, when he feels uncomfortable as far as his health condition is concerned, is the crucial question here.

He encounters a number of questions. Can I withstand the pain on my own, should I go and purchase some medicine in the nearby medical shop, should I be satisfied with the home medicine prepared by my grandma? Or even take something which the doctor had prescribed long back? There may even be people who will be happy with a peg of their favourable drink! The possibilities are aplenty.

It is the “Mind” that matters utmost. A human mind which is so rigid, and yet so fluid. A mind which is a hard nut to crack, and yet susceptible. One needs to understand, how our mind can be tuned to the emotional aspects, as well as, the academic intricacies of medical treatment, put in a generic form, so that a common man too can appreciate and derive benefit. Not to belittle, the role of societal influence in the process of recovery, especially in countries like India.

As such, the episodes in this blog, are aimed to provide a panoramic narration about the way our MIND correlates/interacts/reflects with respect to the prescriptions in particular and health issues in general. It will even be educative to those who sit on the fence when encountering health hazards. It covers feelings from rich to rags. Many times, the narrations could be an open confession of the Blogger himself, who is, on an extension of life for more than two decades. Who knows what happens to our system inside each minute, each moment? Each pulse not knowing to beat or retreat. We just hang on, blindfolded, despite open eyes, more so an open mind. These blogs are aimed to alarm you towards the abuse of drugs knowingly or unknowingly. Let us keep fit and fine.

Keep my Blog site close to your heart till the next alarm. Thank you.

Regular Episodes to be continued…..

Title Image Man in Medicine courtesy Pinterest's.