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| Title: | The lesser-known medicine Ka Dawai Ñiangsohpet of the Khasis in Meghalaya, Northeast India |
| Authors: | Hynniewta, SR
Kumar, Y |
| Keywords: | Ethnomedicine
Herbal medicine
Khasis
Meghalaya |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K36/00, A61P1/04, A61P1/06, A61P1/08, A61P1/10 |
| Abstract: | The paper aims at focusing light on the
hidden indigenous knowledge of traditional medicines of the Khasis in Meghalaya. There is an age-old
belief of the Khasis in a type of germ
that infects the infants and newborns known as
U Ñiangsohpet (Ñiang means
germs and sohpet means the navel in Khasi dialect) and in administering of
the herbal medicine Ka Dawai Ñiangsohpet to eliminate the germs from the
body .The information presented in the paper is collected through direct field
interviews with the indigenous herbal practitioners, observation of the
patients to see the effectiveness of the herbal medicine, recording the
testimony received from the parents whose children have been fully cured and
also highlighting the view of the allopathic doctors on this matter. Ñiangsohpet
is a form of infantile diarrhoea
or irregular bowels and yellowness of the conjunctiva and skin during
infanthood known as neonatal jaundice.
This herbal medicine
Ka Dawai Ñiangsohpet may prove effective in reducing infant mortality. |
| Page(s): | 475-479 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.09(3) [July 2010]
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