1. Concept of Disease and Cause
The disease occurs when the balance of the three humours – Vaadham, Pittham, and Kapam – is disrupted. Climatic conditions, physical activity, diet, and stress are thought to influence the whole equilibrium. The proportions of Vaadham, Pittham, and Kapam are 4:2:1 in normal circumstances.
Dietary habits and lifestyle, as per the Siddha medicine system, contribute significantly to health and disease cure. Pathiyam and apathiyam are terms used to describe the Siddha medicine principle, which is basically a rule-based system with a set of "do's and don'ts."
2. Siddha Treatment
Purgative therapy, Oleation therapy, Fasting therapy, Emetic therapy, Steam therapy, Physical therapy, Bloodletting therapy, Solar therapy, and Yoga therapy are some of the psychological treatments used in Siddha.
3. Herbalism
The Siddhars' herbal agents can be divided into three categories: thadhu (inorganic substances), thavaram (herbal product), and jangamam (animal products).
The thadhu agents have been further divided into uppu (water-soluble inorganic substances which release vapour when ignited), uparasam (equivalent to pashanam but has a different action), loham (not immersed in water but melts when ignited), pashanam (agents that are not dissolved in the water yet release vapour once ignited), rasam (soft substances), and ghandhagam (substances that tend to be insoluble in water).
4. Regulation
The Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners' Act of 1953 made it illegal to practise Siddha medicine and similar things of rural alternative medicine in India, and the Supreme Court of India upheld the prohibition in 2018, saying that "a number of unskilled, unqualified, untrained quacks are presenting a massive risk to the wider population and interfering with people's lives."
Registered health professionals must be educated at a recognised institution, register, and be included on a list of approved physician practitioners reports issued in The Gazette of India, according to the Act. Practitioners of Siddha medicine are not recognised on the Gazette list because they are not educated, certified, or licensed as qualified physicians.
5. Siddha System of Medicine
List of Siddha medicines and their uses in Siddha System of Medicine: Below mentioned in the List of Siddha medicines and their uses:
- Kudineer: Kabasura Kudineer Chooranam is a typical Siddha remedy for treating common respiratory ailments including the flu and cold. Siddha vaidyam practitioners swear through this herbal concoction for relief of respiratory symptoms such as dry and wet cough, heavy phlegm, and fever.
- Siddha Choornam: Choornam is a kind of internal medicine that could be used as a single or multi-herbal formulation. Throughout this case, a Siddha method poly-herbal formulation has been used to treat stress headaches (TTH).
- Propitiatory Siddha Medicine
