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Knowledge of the
treatment of diseases is another sphere where we find a close relation
between the Oraon community and its environment. Treatment of diseases is
invariably based on the use of medicinal herbs found in the region. There
are about 34 kinds of disease which are treated with such medicines. These
include pain (headache, toothache, stomachache, eye pain, ear pain, migraine),
fever (high, ordinary, malaria), wounds, constipation, diarrhoea, dysentery,
epilepsy, rheumatism, insomnia, tetanus, eczema, etc. These are treated with
medicines based on leaves, roots, the bark of trees, and with plants which
grow wild in the jungle. Some of them are grown in their fields by the
people themselves.
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