Thank God for headache--an Alarm

A Chinese doctor said, "Headache is not head's problem, but it is an alarm."
"What kind of alarm is it?"
"Sometimes your liver has problem and it cannot send enough energy to head, so you will have a headache. The problem is your liver and not a head."

Then he said, "But the Western medicine try to fix the headache itself by giving a painkiller medicine. Then what will happen to the liver which is the real problem?"

"Hmm... the problem will not be fixed..."
"Right, it will not even be noticed, then it will just grow bigger unnoticed."

He said, "alarm". I think it's a good metaphor. Imagine someone broke into your house and tried to steal something, then alarm goes off! Now, if you think, "Oh, alarm is so noisy and annoying, let's try to stop it, then use all kinds of possible methods to stop the alarm. When alarm got stopped, you feel relieved. Ok, it's fixed. And continue what you do. Then what will happen? The real problem--somebody broke in and tried to steal something (maybe stolen already)--will not be solved and not even noticed.

Ok, so, who would react to the alarm that way? You think nobody will be that ignorant to do that way. Yes, you got it right. You will react to the alarm that way only if you are "ignorant."

So, if you are taking a painkiller when you have a headache, you may be "ignorant", thus real problem may grow bigger...