Bisayan Filipino and Malayan Humoral Pathologies: Folk Medicine and Ethnohistory in Southeast Asia

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A study of the practices, beliefs, and influences on traditional medicine in Southeast Asia. Cover......Page 1 Half-title Page......Page 3 Copyright......Page 4 Title Page......Page 5 Colophon......Page 6 Dedication......Page 7 Foreword......Page 8 Preface......Page 9 Table of Contents......Page 11 Introduction......Page 13 Humoral Pathology: Classical and Latin American......Page 15 The Philippine Literature......Page 21 Bisayan Folk Medicine......Page 25 Bisayan Humoral Pathology......Page 30 Indigenous Southeast Asian Hot-Cold Syndrome......Page 41 Ayurveda: Indian Humoral Pathology......Page 45 Burma......Page 47 Thailand......Page 50 Arabs, Islam, and Malay Humoral Pathology......Page 57 Humoral Pathology in Telok Kumbar, Penang......Page 59 Moslem Filipinos of Mindanao and Sulu......Page 61 Chinese and Vietnamese Medicine......Page 69 Purpose......Page 73 Indian Influence in the Bisayas......Page 74 Islamic Influence Among the Moslem Filipinos......Page 75 Chinese Influence in the Bisayas......Page 76 Indigenous Influences Among Borean and Philippine Primitive Societies......Page 77 Parallels Between the Bisayas and Latin America......Page 78 Future Research Needs......Page 85 Appendix......Page 89 Key for Interpretation of Tables 1-3......Page 91 Table 1, Bisayan (and Tagalog) Classification of Foods by Hot-Cold Principle......Page 92 Table 2, Classification of Ocean Fish bythe Hot-Cold Priniple, Frequency of Catch, and Class in Caticugan and Siaton......Page 95 Table 3, Bisayan Classification of Medicinal Flora by Hot-Cold Principle......Page 96 Table 4, Bisayan and Tagalog Hot-Cold Classification of Illnesses......Page 98 Table 5, Malay (Telok Kumbar, Penang) Classification of Foods by the Hot-Cold-Regular Principle, Angin and Bisa......Page 99 Table 6, Hot and Cold Sicknesses in Telok Kumbar, Penang......Page 101 A, B, C......Page 103 D, E, F......Page 104 G, H, I, J, K, L......Page 105 M, N, O, P......Page 106 R, S......Page 107 T, U, V, W, Y, Z......Page 108