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Traditional folk treatments for animals
  • Manage No, Sortation, Country, Writer ,Date, Copyright
    Manage No EE00001202
    Country Mongolia
    ICH Domain Knowledge and practices about nature and the universe
    Address
    throughout the Mongolia
    Year of Designation 1962
Description One of the most important achievements of Mongolian culture is its traditional medical treatment of domestic animals. Mongolians engaged in animal farming for many centuries and accumulated a great deal of experience that it transmitted to younger generations orally. The oriental sutra "Nei-jin" says: 'The northern country is cool and cold. Cold diseases are frequently occurred. So, they cure cold diseases by cauterizing. They cure hot diseases by bleeding. It is evident that during the Hunnu period there were two popular treatments: cauterization and bleeding. A Mongolian traditional medical treatment of the most ancient origin, which does not demand elaborate schooling, includes the Mongolian folk medical treatment of the domestic animals. Livestock breeders treat their animals (if those diseases are non-infectious) by fumigating, bathing, sweating, applying a poultice, covering with warm cloth or felt, setting bone, cauterizing, scorching, bloodletting, lancing, shaking, massaging and stinting.
Social and cultural significance Herders inherited traditional animal treating techniques and still use them nowadays. At present, such techniques as acupuncturing, massaging domestic animals, or bloodletting is still practiced in rural areas by herders. The animals are treated by manual operation with surgical tools such as burning iron, lancets, pincers and tweezers.
Transmission method by apprenticeship training
Community Most of herders in the country
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Information source
National Center for Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture of Mongolia
http://www.ncch.gov.mn

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