The medicine Miao

The Miao have a medicine tradional developed throughout many centuries of remarks. Between the Miao the practice of the medicine is restricted to a few families, which members transmit from generation to generation the medical knowledge.

For them the stomach is the most important of our internal organs, if the stomach is well no illness can enter. To treat the gastric illnesses they have a good number of effective recipes. In the last times it even has been informed about the treatment with a certain success of a patient with stomach cancer. Incurable illness for the western medicine and the Chinese traditional medicine.

Against the anger, frequent in the area for the big number of dogs that live in every village, also they have several treatments. One of the most curious is to kill the dog and to consume his bile after boiling it; others base on the consumption of poisonous insects.

Perhaps in the aspect that more he emphasizes it is in the treatment of the bony breaks, in which his results are surprising. The doctors miao first reduce the break with his hands, placing the bones in his correct position. Then they apply to him an ointment that they prepare themselves and immobilize it wrapping him in banana skin or in crust of cedar, then analgesics and medicine are administered to stimulate the circulation.

They have several effective remedies against the arthritis. Also they know contraceptive some and other substances to favor the conception.

At present, the deterioration of the society miao in some areas breaks the chain of traditional transmission of the medical knowledge, what is provoking the loss of some therapies, and the traditional medicines abandonment.

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