The Healing Arts of the Philippines - Must Read

The author uses Ablon to waken sleeping nerves

How many know about awakening sleeping nerves ? This is something that many people are not aware of.

The lessons of this are truly something worth looking into and even analysing and expanding. Science says we have enough nerves that can extend half way to the moon... hmmmm thus maybe we do indeed have sleeping nerves don't you think ???

Here check this out please.

The Healing Arts of the Philippines ByVirgil J. Mayor Apostol

  ByVirgil J. Mayor Apostol
Therapeutic massage in the Philippines is a tradition as old as the island's first inhabitants. Most widely known as Hilot or Hilut, the massage tradition is known by a variety of other names.

Some names for massage therapy in different dialects of the Philippines

Aplos (Bontoc)

Aptus (Ivatan)

Unar (Kalinga)

Kemkem (Pangasinan)

Ilot or Ilut (Ilocano, Itawis, Zambal, Pampango)

Ilu (Ibanag)

Ilat (Isneg)

Elot (Ilongot)

Agod or Agud (Maguindanaon, Maranao)

Hagud (Bukidnon)

Ablon (Northern Ilocano)

All are part of the traditional folk medicine that has survived the ages despite the coming of modern technology. There are various categories of folk doctor (arbolario) including the practitioner of Ablon or Ilut (mangablon or mangngilut), the herbalist (mangngagas), the bonesetter (mammullo), the obstetrician (partera), and other specialists such as snake- or animal-bite curers (mannuma) and shamans or spiritual healers (mangallag). All of these practices have common roots with other healing modalities in Southeast Asian countries including those of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and other outlying islands. Lying just above the equator, the Philippines is situated in the Pacific Ocean, north of Indonesia, east of Vietnam, and south of Taiwan. A tropical climate is endured with a cooler dry season from March through June, and a wet season the rest of the year. Filipinos belong to the Austric stock of peoples that inhabit an area extending from Madagascar off the coast of East Africa, to Easter Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.There are even those who believe that the Philippines was once part of the ancient continent of Lemuria that was swallowed up by the Pacific Ocean long before Atlantis was in the Atlantic Ocean.

As the natives migrated into the three major islands - Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, with them came their animistic beliefs and customs. Assimilated through migration and trade was the influence of Hindu-Malayan and Islamic-Malayan cultures via the islands to the south, as well as the European influence of Spanish conquest, a domain that lasted over 300 years since the 16th century. Thus, practices from a conglomeration of sciences, religions, arts, and medical practices, are still evident throughout the islands to this present day. Most prevalent, though, is a spiritualism overseeing the etymology or diagnosis of an illness to the actual healing.  Read Full Post Here - http://asiapacificuniverse.com/asia_pacific_features32.htm

The people in Philippines have been healers since they set foot on those islands which dates back to thousands of years and it's important that this knowledge gets passed to others to know about it.

When I came across this, I knew it was a unique find because I had never heared about this before yet it does make a lot of sense to me.

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