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| Common name: | |
| Local name: | Manumbalik (Bis.) |
| Indication: | Unexplainable illness or maladies caused by "witchcraft" like daot, paktol, barang |
| Plant part used: | Leaves |
| Method of Preparation: | Get 1 handful leaves and burn the leaves until these turn to ashes. Prepare the coconut shell with cinder, oil, "kandelarya" (candle blessed by the priest), Holy Water from the Church, pot, and Latin prayers. |
| Direction for use: | "Ito-ob" - (Burn the coconut shell until it becomes cinders. Get the cinders and put in a pot. Put a little amount of ashes, Holy Water from the Church in the pot. Place the pot under a chair. Let the person sit on the chair and cover him/her with a blanket so that the smoke from the pot is confined inside the blanket. Apply a lilttle oil on the affected area otherwise, do not put any oil at all. |
| Additional information: | |
| Informant: | Felinor Quezon Magpiong (healer) |
| Place gathered: | Siquijor Province, Siquijor, Barangay Ibabao, Purok Calabyawan |
| Gathered by / Date gathered: | Ando JKE, Herlao IAV |
| Abstracted by: | Ando, JKE |
| Date abstracted: | 11/03/2015 |
| Province: | Siquijor, Mount Bandilaan |