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Busali (Boil)
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- Authors:
- Sinumlag AB, Suyam, R, Palaganas, EC
- Title:
- Phase II Documentation of Philippine Traditional Knowledge and Practices on Health and Development of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library on Health for Selected Ethnoliguistic Groups: THE UMA TRIBE of Western Uma, Lubuagan, Kalinga Province, Cordillera
- Source:
- Terminal report
- Keywords:
- Causes:
- Materials:
- This is a skin infection characterized by reddening, sore and with deep seethed pain especially when the sore is touched.
- Management:
- According to Benito Sugao, his father had a cure for this that he tried once and proven to be effective. This treatment is composed of the luklo (spider ecdysis), ichus (wooden spatula), and coconut oil. He said the coconut oil is rubbed in the reddened skin followed by the pulverized ecdysis and then the spatula is heated by the fire before using it to press the reddened area. When he tried this treatment to his son, after several hours, the ?eye? of the boil came out and the deep seethed pain is gone. Benito added that sometimes, the wisdom of the elders should not be underestimated because those are results of decades of experience.
- Additional information:
- Informant:
- Benito Sugao, 59
- Address:
- Sitio Ag-agama, Western Uma, Lubuagan, Kalinga Province, Cordillera Administrative Region
- Information gathered by:
- Sinumlag, AB
- Date gathered:
- 17/02/2013
- Abstracted by:
- Province:
- Kalinga - UMA tribe