Pain as Danger Signal
PAIN is Nature’s danger signal. Its presence signifies a functional or organic disturbance of some organ or part of the body. The duty of the health-seeker, therefore, is to familiarize himself with the varieties of pain in order that the disease responsible for this physical distress may be detected and its course stayed before it increases in intensity and as¬sumes a dangerous aspect.
Pain may be functional or organic. For instance, the pain of aching, tired muscles is functional; the pain of pleurisy and gastric ulcer is organic.In pains due to inflammation the patient avoids touching the painful part, or approaches it cautiously.