The characteristics of Dai medicine are as follows:
According to the results of collection and collation, there are about 1,000 kinds of Dai traditional ethnic medicines, most of which are plant medicines, and some animal and mineral medicines, and a small number of which are foreign medicines. Many of them are the same as those in Han Chinese medicine, but there are some differences in clinical application.
For example, Lu Zi is used for refreshing the mind; Cao Kou is used for rheumatism and soreness; Motherwort is used for fecal itching and eczema; Sheng Gan is used for excessive menstruation, etc., all of which are different from those used in Han Chinese medicine. There are also drugs for the national key protected animals, the source of medicine is less, such as hornbills, ivory, peacock hair.
In recent history, the Dai inhabited border areas, malaria, cholera, typhoid fever, plague and more than 10 kinds of virulent infectious diseases, especially malaria, the majority of the Dai people lack of medicine, very painful. Hospitals, epidemic prevention stations, malaria prevention and treatment centers, as well as maternal and child health care institutions were rapidly established, townships have health centers (institutes), many villages have medical stations, has long been the eradication of plague, control of malaria, cholera, typhoid fever and other infectious diseases, the people's health level has been significantly higher.
Mangshi used to be known as a malaria area, the original 5,000 Dai residents, due to the attack of the disease, only 1,800 people left in 1949, and has become a new industrial town of nearly 30,000 people.
Treatment:
Fenya (Dai language, the meaning of research or grinding medicine) in a bowl with the right amount of cold boiled water or rice soup, according to different diseases. According to the formula will be a variety of drugs dipped in water or rice soup in the small hemp alkali under the research into the combined drug juice in the bowl, internal or external rubbing. Generally speaking, this method is used for expensive and scarce medicines, mainly for the treatment of diseases caused by wind (Wa medicine tower) disorders, gynecological diseases and some critical illnesses, and is also used for drug and food poisoning.
Baking Ya (Dai language, the meaning of smoked medicine) according to the required formula to take drugs chopped (mostly fresh), placed in a pot (or a large metal basin) with water decoction, the patient sits on top of the pot (or basin), through the drug steam fumigation of the body to achieve the therapeutic purpose. This method is mainly used in the body due to the wind (Wa Yota), water (Abota) disorder caused by muscle, joint rheumatism pain, numbness of the limbs, post-partum weakness, do not think of food and other diseases.
Shaya (Dai language, the meaning of thorn medicine) will be equipped with a good formula of drugs chopped, dry, *** research for the end, mixed into the goose oil soak standby. When used by the doctor with a clean copper needle (like a straight stick plum blossom needle) shallow stabbing the affected skin, and then coated with a good prescription oil. This method is also used for rheumatic joint pain caused by the imbalance of wind (Wa Yota) and water (Abota) in the body.
Go Ya (Dai language, the meaning of compresses) according to the formula will be required to take the fresh drugs, chopped and mashed, depending on the condition of the wine, sesame oil or rice water were added to the mix evenly, with a banana leaf wrapped in a good, placed in the fire simmering, while the hot packs on the affected area to the extent that it does not scald the skin. Mainly used for bone-setting, bruises and sprains, rheumatism, numbness and pain, headache, lumbar and leg pain and pain.
Nuan Ya (Dai language, the meaning of sleeping medicine) according to the formula of the required drugs (mostly fresh) chopped with a small amount of water decoction for a certain period of time (or fried, or steamed depending on the condition), take out the dregs of the medicine mixed into the wine or fried lees, mixing evenly spread on a wooden board, laying on the Silva (can also be used with the cloth sheet). The patient sleeps on the bed of medicine while it is hot, covered with a quilt, so that the medicine fumigates the body to achieve the therapeutic purpose. This method is also used for rheumatism, numbness, limb pain syndrome.
Nanya (Dai language, the meaning of steaming medicine) this method has two kinds of a prescription of drugs will be chopped into containers, placed in the steamer for a certain period of time, take the drug distillate internal service (aromatic drugs with this method). The second is to put the drug directly into the steamer for a certain period of time, take out and add wine while outside the affected area. Mostly used for abdominal pain, limb pain and other pain conditions.