Conventional healer Romaldina cures and comforts sufferers with a number of pure treatments
Pure treatments to infectious ailments and continual illnesses could also be regarded down upon by immediately’s youth, however there isn’t a denying that a number of generations of sufferers have achieved encouraging outcomes by following the dietary and supplementary suggestions of their elders; Holistic wellness is right here to remain
Catherine Fernandes
SIOLIM: With way of life illnesses getting extra continual and afflicting youthful folks with every passing 12 months, the folks of Goa are in search of reduction in homegrown treatments slightly than mainstream allopathic drugs alone.
In these days, when ‘Dr Google’ was not an choice, each ailment was cured by house medicine distributed by village seniors who have been properly versed in ‘Zhaddo pallo’. These elders had deep information and perception of all of the domestically sourced treatments that would yield reduction and therapeutic. These treatments got here within the type of herbs, roots, barks, flowers and leaves of various crops; be it wild ones or herbs grown in their very own yards.
Religion and confidence be it in God, your self and your physician/healer can heal all afflictions. It is a strong-rooted perception of our Goan ancestors, again when docs have been few and much between, and entry to medical services was uncommonly uncommon.
It’s this perception and information that has strengthened the religion in natural treatments curated by Romaldina Fernandes from Sodiem, Siolim. A revered senior member of the group, Romaldina has been dishing out drugs to treatment jaundice for the final 40 years. The secrets and techniques of those treatments have been taught to her by her mother-in-law; the late Luisa Maria, who in flip realized it from a senior within the household hierarchy.
The medication principally includes a concoction of 11 several types of roots, tree bark, leaves and herbs amongst different issues. This drugs is to be blended right into a glass of recent milk ideally sourced from a white cow, referred to as a Kapilla cow. The native perception is that the white cow absorbs sure therapeutic properties of the solar’s rays, that are then handed on by the cow’s milk.
With the autumn in folks elevating cattle at house or preferring the excessive milk yielding international breeds of cow, Romaldina now advises folks to supply the milk themselves. The medication needs to be drunk constantly for a interval of seven days, as soon as within the morning on an empty abdomen. Inside seven days, if there may be not a lot enchancment, then a second dose is beneficial for one more seven days. Throughout the course of medicine, a light-weight vegetarian weight loss plan is beneficial. Purple meat, rooster, oily and spicy meals are to be averted. After this, the jaundice is totally cured.
As a final resort for cussed circumstances, Romaldina dispenses some eye-drops which once more are a concoction of locally-sourced herbs. They’re beneficial as a final resort as they sting terribly and that alone is sufficient to kill the Jaundice. With these drops, it’s mentioned that your jaundice is cured for all times.
Hills have been bought for growth and the resultant deforestation signifies that this can be very tough to supply these herbs. “Individuals do not know the worth of those medicinal timber and the significance of the identical,” says Romaldina, who regardless of her advancing age nonetheless trudges uphill repeatedly to supply out the necessities of the concoction. Neither the climb, nor the worry of snakes or different wild animals will cease her from serving to these in want of her treatments.
Romaldina as an individual is heat, thoughtful and religious, proper from the time she got here in from Marcela as a brand new bride over 55 years in the past. Whether or not it’s a completely happy event or a tragic one, until immediately, she could be discovered main everybody in prayer; be it in her Church, house, or on the native Cross. Past that, Romaldina has all the time been a shoulder to lean on, somebody folks speak in confidence to. Alongside together with her medicines, she can also be usually discovered dishing out sound recommendation and heat hugs, which lay the trail for the therapeutic that follows.
Nilesh Vaingankar, the Deputy Sarpanch of Sodiem, Siolim, is all reward for her as he says, “From childhood, I’ve seen numerous individuals who have benefitted from her medicines. And but she does this with out charging any charge for her companies.”
We commend her for her selfless service to the group within the some ways she has contributed. We pray that God grants her and her household well being, happiness and a protracted life, for bringing pleasure and luxury to these in want. She was additionally a member of the Sioilim-Sodiem Biodiversity panel.
Our hope is that with elevated consciousness and curiosity in all issues native and homegrown, somebody, someplace would doc her distinctive information in order that it may be preserved for posterity and heal numerous others.
