By Dr. BPS Tyagi Traditional Vedic science has been advocating poly diet i.e. mixing a combination of all seven colours and six tastes,.
Each colour provides a different vitamin and each taste has a different function in the body. Combining them together provides a perfect balanced diet. Allopathy is also now promoting the concept of multiple drugs for a single disease. Today, for obesity, lipids, blood pressure, diabetes, tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, rheumatoid arthritis, etc., it is advised to combine multiple drugs in low doses than to give high dose of a single drug.
Giving a single drug for infections like tuberculosis, HIV and malaria can produce drug resistance and giving a single drug for non–communicable diseases like blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol may not adequately control the disease and achieve the required goals and targets.
Most patients with diabetes and hypertension of over 10 years’ duration may require a combination of 3 to 4 drugs. Even preparing home cooked vegetables in a traditional Indian way requires more than 10 ingredients. Therefore, one should not count the number of drugs while taking treatment.