Sunday, October 16, 2011

cure of

Herbs  
            Herbs and the treating of Kachin that have using to many informer times but nowadays very difficult to find the person who still used herb to treat the sickness. They used the herb to treat such as a knife cuts the tendon, they will take herbs “Hma-Chod-Hla” stop the bleeding, the bone breaks they used the stem of “Hma-Chod-Hla” comes to boil and eat that will make the bone join each other. When they has a fever will go to see a person who understand a medicine. The food is poisonous also, they used “Hma-Chod-Hla” eat that make get well, the medicine brings from the Kachin state
Study or inherit about herbs.
           learning and inheriting about herb that will teach not freely event they are descendants because if teach freely a medicine that get will not effectively by must have the teacher value give to a doctor that come to teach. The Kachin people believe in that each medicine alive and have the guardian spirit is taking care if there have teacher medicine value has that come to have no deteriorated. The inheritance and learning happen like people who have the knowledge will invite the person who would like to learn go to see when the patient has. When would will to take a medicine must tell the guardian spirit of the forest that will take a herb from the forest, then scatter milled rice round a herb from the left goes to right. After heal finished and the patient get well will take the herb that used already to leavings in the forest originally and tell the guardian spirit that person is get well, we take a herb returns, then scatter milled rice from right go to the left as the ceremony finish .
Massaging
           In Kachin tribe have the family name is” Uem-Kum” that have the knowledge about massaging. This family is that heals by massaging, heal the heel, squeeze the heel, in this family even have many “Uem-Kum” but will have a person who be able to do only one. Now start to difficult to seek this family that have the knowledge about massaging to heal the disease.


Information from: Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant: 1. Boonchoo TuaMo 2. Kaew (Ka-Kom) 3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader) and 4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
http://kachin.hilltribe.org

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