Xishuangbanna is located in the tropical rain forest, with a wide variety of plants. Different plants have different medicinal properties. When I was a child, I heard from my mother that whenever I sat on the ground in the mountains, I would find at least three kinds of herbs.
My grandfather is a local herbalist. It is said that it runs in the family. Both my uncle and my mother know some herbs. When I was a child, I had a headache and a fever. My mother went outside to find some herbs to cure it. Sometimes my stomach hurts, and it's just my mother massaging it with her hands.
I remember when I was a child, every time I ate hot dishes at home, my mother always picked a few golden bamboo leaves near my home in advance, washed them and soaked them in boiling water for us to drink, so that we wouldn't get angry after drinking them. Sometimes it's hot to eat out, and my mother will massage to help us "start a big fire", which is very useful.
Big uncle knows the most about family medicine. He wandered in the mountains all the year round and found many magical herbs. There are some medicines that grandpa doesn't know. I remember once my uncle came back from a deep mountain and said excitedly that he had found a medicine that could cure a serious illness. Ask him where he is, but he won't say. My uncle said it would be ruined by people outside if he said it.
Do you ask uncle how good his medical skills are? Let me tell you something. Someone in the nearby stockade got a strange disease, but he couldn't be cured in the hospital, so he got a red card. The patient's family sent the patient to my uncle's house, and my uncle was cured in two months.
Maybe you will say that grandpa can cure a serious illness and must have money. Then you are wrong. In the cottage, saving lives is not about making money. Every time I treat a disease, the patient gives money at will. The strange disease cured by my uncle mentioned earlier, after the patient recovered, I gave him a kilogram of corn wine baked by myself.
We asked uncle why he didn't charge more. Uncle said that the medicine was planted in the mountains, not by him. He just helped the mountain god use it on patients. Unfortunately, Uncle Xian has gone, and there are not many medicines handed down now.
At present, Dai doctors in the stockade will also collect some money for their livelihood, but compared with Han doctors in the city, it is very cheap and has a good curative effect. Sometimes it is taken with patients. Our custom is to give some money or something to see a doctor, otherwise you won't get well. Sometimes it is ok for patients to give one yuan.
The year before last, I went to Daizhai to see a doctor because of my poor cervical spine. That Dai doctor, Lao Botao, is very good at bonesetting. He has cured many diseases that cannot be cured in big hospitals.
Now I'm waiting in line to take medicine. Sleeping Dai medicine dehumidifies and detoxifies and purifies the body. It is good for your health to spend time sleeping several times a year.
Xishuangbanna folk medicine is really a treasure given by nature.