Conclusion
If the body is healthy and consumes the necessary substances needed (no more and no less), the twenty-one senses will function properly. If the balance in health is lost and deteriorated by failing to follow the mentioned balanced diet, all senses' functioning will become feeble. Therefore, people hallucinate during fevers and see horrifying images. Alternatively, their minds cannot function properly, and they carry out wrongful acts.
Therefore, whenever humankind's body is healthy, and the individual follows the principles of being healthy, as mentioned earlier, his senses will be orderly and function properly. Such a person can then strengthen his senses through focus and training.
On the other hand, if the body is not healthy, even though the individual may have proper attention and focus on a specific sense and attempts to develop it, they will not achieve the same results as much as a healthy person.
There is a saying, "a sound mind is in a sound body." Humankind is responsible for maintaining their health at all times and not let it deteriorate.
What we mentioned were about general sicknesses that affect and harm the entire body and all the senses. For instance, when we have a fever, all senses become disrupted to a certain amount; our eyes become heavy, our tongue becomes withered, and our ears will ring.
However, some sicknesses and injuries harm a specific sense (a visible or concealed sense). For apparent senses, an example is when the person becomes blind due to an ailment or a foreign object hurting an individual. As for concealed senses, we can mention amnesia, which occurs when the tool (organ) for memory is damaged.
The difference between general sickness in senses and a specific sickness of one sense is that all senses become disrupted to a certain extent in a general sickness, however in a specific sickness, only that certain related sense will stop functioning.
For instance, the sense of vision becomes somewhat blurred in fever, but in blindness, it will stop functioning altogether.
Specific sickness affects a sense either in a defective manner (like ophthalmia) or in a failure manner (like blindness). Nevertheless, even though the blind person has lost his sense of vision, he still possesses the tool of vision for the sense of clairvoyance.
So, consider the notions above as much as possible so that the senses can function correctly.
Reminder – what we discussed here regarding medicines and cures were merely for general awareness. It is imperative that, in times of illness, we seek professional treatment from a knowledgeable doctor.
On the issue of Malady, the following description written in the Grand Larousse Encyclopedia:
"To say that maladies are disruptions in health is not a scientific interpretation. To this day, human beings have not been successful in finding a proper expression and meaning for sickness."
Littré believes that: "malady is a reaction, whether local or general, whether promptly or chronic, against a barrier, a disruption, or ulceration." However, they should know that life itself should be defined first and foremost.
The advantage in the interpretation of Littré is that he distinguished general sickness (like diphtheria) from local sickness (like sore throat). In every disease, more than one organ is attacked.
Generally, diseases are categorized into various classes. However, such classification is not entirely scientific or based on certainty, for we are yet to obtain the proper knowledge to yield a comprehensive classification:
1. Diseases with mechanical and physical origins, including burns or wounds.
2. Diseases with chemical origins, including poisoning or alcoholism.
3. Diseases transmitted via living organisms or parasites are like malaria and tuberculosis.
This final classification contains multiple subclasses.
Another type of disease is (dyscrasia)1 , which is related to a disorder of indigestion, including gout, diabetes, and similar diseases that science is yet to diagnose correctly. Other types of diseases are neurological disorders relating to the nervous system, including hysteria, willies, and dementia.
Multiple reasons have been mentioned for the methods of transmission and contagion of diseases.
The mentioned discussion is a summary of human knowledge regarding diseases. As you can see, despite all progressions in medicine, it still has nothing to offer but preliminary and imperfect ideas.
You will find the truths in the New Philosophy.
A Greek proverb says: "a sound mind is in a sound body."
They have realized this notion to some extent in the previous era that the mind is not healthy until the body is healthy. But how? Of course, they did not fully understand.
The discussion on the mechanism of senses clarifies this immense fact. If the organs and the tools for senses are not functioning correctly, and if the body is not healthy, the spirit cannot function with those senses properly.
Footnotes
- Dyscrasia is a nonspecific term that refers to a disease or disorder, especially of the blood. The latter is called a blood dyscrasia. Before modern medicine, it meant an imbalance of four body fluids: blood, bile, lymph, and phlegm.