People call it the 'magic tablet' for pain and swelling, but I know it is a kortikosteroid like prednisolone, working deep in the body's own defence. It can treat many things because it quiets the whole system's alarms. For the cost, a strip of ten tablets is only thirty rupees in the bazaar, so we buy it for back pain or joint ache without seeing a doctor. But this is the worry—last monsoon, my neighbour, Dada, took them for his knee and his sugar went xorur bishal kopah high. One medicine cannot fit all bodies so easily, I feel.
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