DOMESTIC LIFE--MEDICINE, SICKNESS, AND DEATH
MEDICINE AND DISEASE
The subject of Manóbo medicine may be divided into three parts, according to the causes that are supposed to produce the malady or according to the means that are used to cure it. These classes will be described as natural, magic, and religious.
NATURAL MEDICINES AND DISEASES
Natural remedies in the form of roots and herbs are used for the ordinary bodily ailments that afflict the Manóbo. The following are the more common forms of sickness: Fever,1 tuberculosis,2 pain in the diaphragm,3 pains in the stomach and abdomen,4 pains in the chest,5 pain in the head,6 colds,7 chronic cough (probably bronchitis),8 pernicious malaria,9 ordinary malaria or chills and fever,10 cutaneous diseases,11 intestinal worms,12 and some few others.
1Híñg-yau.
2Súg-pa.
3Ka-bú-hi, or gi-húb, probably a reversal of the diaphragm.
4Pús-on and go-túk.