Human beings needs to go back to the roots for treatment or cure
for auto immune disease. Medical
practices of tribal people/alternative around the world evoke mixed reactions,
some look upon with it with suspicion, others having gone to alternative and
not finding any cure, has only a negative opinion about it without even knowing
that in every profession there are those who are expert and those who in spite
of being in the trade don’t know anything about the medicine. Some others dismiss the tribal healers as an
illiterate and a superstition lot while others do not want to have to do
anything with tribal or alternative healing but what choice does one have if
the modern medicine does not save you, do you go in bearing the pain, every day
and don’t have a social life just because your modern medicine cannot relieve your sufferings or cure you of your disease. The answer is no, those who are
lucky enough will find treatment and cure for auto immune disease and even
cancer provided they deeply want it and would go to any length to get it.
To a public health work, these healers are an obstacle to their
work. Warning against blind belief tribal
medicine are also issued from time to time.
However, there are a quite a few who have deep faith in tribal methods
of diagnosis, therapeutic practices and pharmacopoeia in various parts of the
world. For them including me this system
is more rational and effective like any other form of medicine and better
suited for our human body because it does not have any side effects.
Of late, the Government of India and other countries has been striving to preserve
tribal medical lore considering their anthropological importance and the faith
that at least some have reposed in tribal medicine. Tribal people have effective herbal medicines
for snake bites, fracture, wounds, cuts, auto immune disease and even
cancers. Ayurveda researchers and
medicine makers acknowledge their skills in identifying medicinal plants. With the onset of modern medicine, forest are
being erased to make way for development and in the process the rare medicinal
plants that have been there for thousands of years are being destroy and
Revival of tribal medicine is the most important to be considered now since
going forward, with the lifestyle deterioration and plastic foods like china
rice, china eggs and use of fertilizers for fast growth of fruits and vegetables
to meet the growing demands of the increasing population of human being, is
creating havoc in the lives of human being all around the world, hence the more
urgency to revival of tribal medicine and to preserve that which are there.
