Table 2 Use of different Indigenous/Traditional/Alternative medicine in rural communities for healing different diseases and sickness
Disease wise use of different Indigenous/Traditional/Alternative medicine | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Diarrhea | Yes (%) | Dengue | Yes (%) |
Drink saline at home | 96.3 | Use mosquito net all the times | 65.0 |
Drink the water used to wash puffed rice (chira) | 90.1 | Malaria | Â |
Drink the water of boiled rice | 59.2 | Use mosquito net all the times | 75.9 |
Stop eating spicy food | 73.4 | Skin Diseases | Â |
Increase the frequency of drinking water | 30.9 | Drink the juice of Margo’s leaf | 66.3 |
Drink green coconut water | 72.7 | Take shower with boiled water of Margo leaves | 81.4 |
Take rice soup | 31.8 | Take selective food | 89.2 |
Eat thankuni (Centella asiatica) leaf | 15.0 | Avoid goods and stuffs of the affected person | 87.6 |
Eat telakucha (Coccinia grandis) leaf | 8.0 | Rub chirota essence on body | 11.6 |
Eat shiuly (Jasmine) leaf | 2.0 | Rub turmeric on body | 20.5 |
Eat helencha (Enhydra fluctuans, Asteraceae) leaf | 4.6 | Shower with Alum mixed water | 29.8 |
Drink juice | 22.6 | Rub the essence of Marigold flower on body | 4.6 |
Dysentery | Â | Rub mulberry (toot) leaf on body | 2.3 |
Eat smashed green banana | 79.1 | General clod/coughing/fever | Â |
Eat ripe banana | 71.3 | Use massage oil on body and head | 91.9 |
Take a mixture of mango, banana and sugar | 57.6 | Use salted hot water to gargle | 86.4 |
Drink goat milk | 11.2 | Pour water on head | 97.5 |
Drink the water used to wash puffed rice (chira) | 87.0 | Take water vapour | 59.0 |
Drink juice of thankuni leaf/Centella asiatica (L.) | 24.9 | Take honey | 63.5 |
Drink juice of telakucha leaf/Coccinia grandis (L.) J. | 11.6 | Take sour fruits | 64.0 |
Drink juice of pathorkuchi (Bryophyllums)leaf | 1.5 | Drink warm water | 64.9 |
Drink juice of tulshi (Basil, Ocimum Sanctum) leaf | 8.3 | Drink juice of tulshi (basil) leaf | 22.7 |
Drink juice of helencha leaf/(Enhydra flactuans) | 6.5 | Drink juice of basok (Adhatoda vasica)leaf | 4.2 |
Drink juice of amboli leaf | 8.3 | Drink juice of sheuly (Jasmine) leaf | 3.7 |
Drink juice of margo leaf | 8.6 | Take ginger/garlic with mustered oil | 12.4 |
Drink juice of promigant leaf | 6.5 | Eat papaya | 19.4 |
Drink juice of adaboron leaf | 1.2 | Eat pineapple | 19.9 |
Eat hot jilapi (a fried of mixed wheat flower and sugar) | 1.5 | Eat pomegranate leaf | 4.6 |
Eat curd | 14.9 | Typhoid | Â |
Eat papaya | 19.4 | Drink much water | 90.5 |
Eat custard apple | 19.5 | Pour water on head | 93.2 |
| Â | Â | Eat mixture of rice, burley, sugar and lemon | 14.3 |
Asthma | Yes (%) | Headache | Yes (%) |
Try to keep neat and clean | 95.2 | Use local made balm | 77.8 |
Try not to catch cold | 96.2 | Take head massage | 91.3 |
Eat tulshi (Basil) leaf | 13.8 | Avoid sun heat/Stop going out in the sun | 90.5 |
Jaundice Hepatitis B | Â | Take much rest/sleep more | 97.0 |
Take the stew of cat fish | 39.4 | Take ginger mixed tea | 18.8 |
Take shaddock | 48.2 | Prickles Blistering/Ghamachi | Â |
Drink sugarcane juice | 95.7 | Take shower in rain water | 85.1 |
Drink green coconut water | 89.2 | Rub ice on the body | 21.2 |
Avoid spicy food items | 90.0 | Take shower with Margo leaves mixed water | 44.2 |
Take enough rest | 91.5 | Take shower with antiseptic mixed water | 55.6 |
Drink orohor juice (Cajanus Cajan (L.) Millsp.) leaf | 67.7 | Use prickly-heat powder | 96.5 |
Eat Papaya | 29.4 | Prick and take out the pus from it | 89.6 |
Drink molasses/condensed sugar juice | 26.2 | Rub fitkiri (Alum) all over the body | 18.0 |
Take green banana | 20.6 | Â | Â |
Drink raw milk | 10.4 | Â | Â |
Eat rice soup | 16.0 | Â | Â |
Eat helencha leaf/(Enhydra flactuans) | 5.7 | Â | Â |
Eat custard apple juice | 10.3 | Â | Â |
Take barley | 4.7 | Â | Â |