2023-04-28 06:32:50
Mumps is a contagious disease that can be found all over the world. Most of the treatment methods are going to see a doctor for treatment according to the symptoms of the disease. in Thailand In addition to treatment by modern medicine There is another way. is to write the letter “Tiger” on the cheek of a patient with mumps as well
Before going to the treatment process, let’s look at the origin of “Mumps” first.
5th century BC Hippocrates, the father of medicine, explained that mumps was contagious. Shows that people have been sick with mumps for thousands of years. And there has been research on mumps ever since. Until being able to develop a culture of the mumps virus Until being produced as a vaccine to prevent mumps for the first time in the 1950s
In Thailand, measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination was introduced to Thai children nationwide in 1971, resulting in a decrease in the number of mumps cases.
Most patients with mumps are children between the ages of 5-9. The most common symptoms are swelling and tenderness in the salivary glands. (particularly parotid salivary glands), mostly unilateral If some cases are on both sides, there are Pain and swelling will be noticeable a few days after the onset of infection. causing the patient to have difficulty speaking And eating, the symptoms will gradually disappear within about 1 week. But in some patients there may be complications.
The above is information about current medical mumps summarized by Thiti-on Rucharit, Weerachai Wattanaweeradet “Mumps Vaccine” in, Vaccine textbook, Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of Thailand
If the “mumps” treatment using Chinese characters writes the word “Tiger-虎” on the patient’s cheek. mentioned above according to belief
Using a brush dipped in black ink, write the characters “虎” meaning “tiger” in Chinese on the side of the cheek where the mumps are located. The person who writes must be a person who was born in the year of the tiger zodiac. Many readers may have heard of this story. or some of you have already used such methods
Why does it have to be a Chinese character that means tiger? If the tiger is ferocious worse than a lion Or something that is very popular like a dragon
Why is the tiger the answer to this story? Because mumps in Chinese is written as 猪头肥, each character translates as 猪-pig, 头-head, 肥-fat, so it can be summed up as “fat pig’s head”. can look like a pig’s head therefore using the tiger character as if using a tiger to eat pigs to manage pigs
The parts that don’t use lion and dragon characters. Maybe with the tiger being 1 in the zodiac year, when using people born in the year of the tiger, it will look more magical. while there is no lion in the year of the zodiac The dragon is the symbol of the king. and is a sacred animal just a pig Even if using a dragon, it seems too.
Finally, according to the medical information that said It takes 2-3 days before you can clearly see that it’s mumps, so it takes at least 2-3 days before you come to write the tiger’s body. After completing the writing of the tiger, almost all of them disappeared. Because the cycle of the disease is only 7 days, small children who have mumps come to write tigers, it is not painful or scary. Being encouraged to go back to eat and sleep is not a bad thing. And the giving part is written for free.
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First published online on April 28, 2023.
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