Thursday, February 11, 2010

some of myths in traditional medicine

1. In Malay society, there are still a lot of 'petua' that was brought from generation to generation. Most of 'petua' are about health and traditional medication. Although sciences and technologies are now progressively grow in our lifestyle, but there are some of us, still believe and practise in 'petua'.

2. In a medicine field, there are a lot of petua taught by old folks to youngster especially in Malay culture. Some of 'petua' is good but if it use and practise without surveilance it can cause dangerous to our health.

3. I am not againsts the practise of 'petua' or traditional medicine but we have to know it is that ingredient in herbal medicine or contain of mixture in traditional medication are truly safe to use or not.

4. Petua or traditional medicine widely use in such as a mother post delivery of childbirth. They need to follow 'pantang' for 40 days and drink and eat only so called 'heat-energy meals'. They also have to drink water boiled with herbal leaves to get better treatment. Then a new mother also have to go through massages to fix back enlarge womb after nine months of pregnancy.

5. I have an experience went through traditional treatment for 'resdung' or medically named as allergic rhinitis. Some bomoh use cockroaches in treatment of this disease. When we think back, it is so weird that dirty insect like cockroaches can cure this problem. A bomoh use cockroaches cleansing and pasting onto skin of face of a patient. After a few minutes, bomoh will take small worm from the face of patient which is believed come out from patient's face. It is clearly enough for someone who think carefully that a it is worm from stomach of cockroach after a bomoh pinched a cockroach onto a face.

6. At last but not least, do not simply follow and practise traditional medicine taught by our old generation. We can use petua and traditional medication if it is safe medicaly and halal in islam.

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