SUNGAI CHOH (26) : Once Upon A Time | Home Of Evil

Home Of Evil 

(A Team Of Disaster Rejection Rituals)

Infectious Disease

Common Sense

Cloud Of Evil

Faith Healing

God Almighty

That night after Isha prayer, I had the opportunity to watch a rarely practised Bangkahulu tradition, by a team of disaster rejection rituals. They walked in a parade as far as Kampung Hulu. Kampung Hulu was believed to be the home of evil. So when the infectious disease began to spread in the village, this team would seem to read sholawat or zanji and recite a few verses from Al Quran. Though it was illogical to our common sense, yet our kampung was then cleared from the cloud of evil. This was really a miracle of faith healing. Sometimes I found it difficult to understand. Anyway I believed, it was really the Mercy of God Almighty.

Couldn't Avoiod

Special License

Bomoh's Work

Abdominal Pain

For Freshness

So those were the days when Tok Bomoh and Mak Bidan were respected and trusted, not to mention Tok Mudin who was not popular amongst the boys. Yet boys couldn’t avoid meeting him. It was said that only Tok Mudim had the authority to give a special license to find a girl friend. Tok Bomoh and Mak Bidan eventually replaced the doctors to serve sick people in the village. Even my mother knew a little bit of bomoh's work. As “a self-made dukun” in the house, she would rub kunyit on my forehead if I got hedache and put a few nila on my swollen neck under the chin. To release my abdominal pain my mother would then give me ginger juice to drink. As well as she showered me with rice water for freshness, especially hair and skin.

Stop Bleeding

Mysterious Herbs

Cure Diseases

Herbal Medicine

History Of Medicine

As well as my friends, they used chewed keduduk leaves to stop bleeding from any scratch or wound. Gelanggang leaves were used to get rid of ringwarm or kurap on our body. Similarly, other leaves have amazing medicinal properties. What were mysterious herbs in those days? It really helped to stimulate the body's healing powers. Only then, did I discover that some herbs have the healing properties to cure diseases. But nowadays these medical herbs are ignored and gradually forgotten over time. However, herbal medicine is actually part of the history of medicine itself.  Undeniably some herbs can be very effective in the treatment of many conditions, such as dukung anak, kucing galak, rerama, ketumpang air, rumput mutiara, putri malu, semanggi gunung, ketumbit  jantan, and various others.