Medicine
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marunteṉa vēṇṭāvām yākkaik karuntiya / taṟṟatu pōṟṟi yuṇiṉ.
“No need of medicine to heal your body's pain, / If, what you ate before digested well, you eat again.”
“The body requireth no medicine if new food is eaten only after the old food is fully digested.”
No medicine is needed for the body if one eats only after ensuring previous food is fully digested.
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Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
அருந்தியது அற்றது போற்றி உணின்= ஒருவன் முன்னுண்டது அற்றபடியைக் குறிகளான் தெளியவறிந்து பின் உண்ணுமாயின்; யாக்கைக்கு மருந்து என வேண்டாவாம்= அவன்யாக்கைக்கு மருந்தென்று வேறு வேண்டாவாம்.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
No medicine whatsoever is needed for the human body if one eats only after clearly ascertaining that previously eaten food has been fully digested.