Akhil is having headache. he takes some pills to reduce it before going to the doctor. what type of treatment is this? how can we reduce the effects of the disease? what is the drawback of this treatment? what it's the possible remedy for these diseases?

@Sanskrit, well done! You have really provided the wonderful answer.


The treatment which Akhil has taken is a kind of first aid which is the immediate help given to the patients in absence of an expert.  It just temporarily controls the situation by reducing its symptoms,  but not eradiate its main cause.We can reduce the effects of diseases by focussing on the symptoms as well as pathogens or other disease causing factors that are reasons for such diseases. Possible remedy for given problem , that is headache, depends on the cause of headaches.

There are various reasons responsible for getting headaches such as migraine, tension, accumulation of blood around brain, problem in neck, eye sight problem, etc. Headache is a non specific symptom. It is associated with number of causes.
 

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The type of treatment is symptom based. It focuses only to relieve the person from the effects of symptoms.The drawback of the treatment is that it reduces the symptom only and not the pathogen which is truly responsible for the disease. While the symptoms are being taken care of, the pathogen keeps multiplying.

The possible remedy is to simultaneously treat the symptom and reduce or prevent the multiplication of the pathogen, finally eradicating it.

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