Editor’s note What is the aim of all medicine? To relieve suffering? All the drugs, surgeries, medical case and medical research is ultimately geared to that end. Yet surprisingly no one asks — why do we suffer? How does one really cure it? Is there another way? This article explores these questions deeply. Charity is commonly understood to consist in rendering material help to your fellow men, giving alms to the poor, medicine to the sick, money or material to those who need them and physical service also where that is required. .