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Quack-Doctor/ Shaman healer: True or Fake?
« on: September 06, 2007, 12:58:48 AM »
I just want to address the current stipulation in the current consensus on some Filipinos with the concept of natural healers who commune with 'ginoos' and or referred to the proverbial bisayan "diwatas". I have come in contact with many of Filipino peers of my age group (namely within the 18-25 brackett) and discussed the etiological view of disease in the nativist Filipino view--as well as the teleological framework of the condition itself.

One of the key issues that my contemporaries and I have hard pressing questions includes the concept of Filipino quack doctory---or also known as shamans or natural healers. The importance of understanding this concept is quite important, as we even discussed this in our last week's Filipino-American Association organization--clearly to understand the thinkings of our ancestors in the past--as well as to find out if there really was some truth to it.

For example, my parents who are medical professionals in the truest sense, do believe that there is truth to quack doctory--and that they hold some kind of spiritual power to cure diseases that cannot be satiated by traditional allopathic and homeostatic medicine. For example, my father--who was treated for having blisters in his foot as a child went to physicians to find the prognosis of the condition--and he was given medication to treat the blisters--which did not work. My lolo, my father's dad, took him to a quack doctor who was said to have ushered some kind of indigenous incantation to my father--in reference to the diwatas and gave him herbal medication--which cured my father's severe blisters on his feet, outright. I actually had a discussion with my father about this some time ago--and he is a firm believer that there are some men in the Philippines with the special holistic ability to cure some diseases and commune with spirits--which is rather amazing for me, considering my father is not the type to be mystical, on the contrary it is rather interesting that he would say that--coming from a man is an Engineer and Registered Nurse--and a man who currently works in the Emergency Room and some times in the OR in the hospital.

It really just boggles my mind--thinking about it. So I ask you, my fellow Boholanos, have you had such experiences or heard of such? Do you believe in the power of quack doctors or are you skeptical about it, as I am?

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Remark: My contemporaries here in college have mixed views about it; some firmly believe in it and some are skeptical and others deny the legality of natura-holistic medicine--in favor of western based allopathic/osteopathic medicine.


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Re: Quack-Doctor/ Shaman healer: True or Fake?
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2007, 02:09:45 AM »
Onic, motuo ko dili lang tong tuthu-an imong ulo sa ilang laway pero the rest shaman mo tuo man ko...

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