Week 6 - Giverny Yang
Giverny Yang
Week 6
It was interesting reading "Spiritual Healing Practices among Rural Postpartum Thai woman" because I never thought about postpartum experiences before. It was fascinating when I realized that even with postpartum, cultures are different. To learn traditional Thai medicine (TTM) views childbirth as something that unbalances the mind-heart and energy of the body was a bit of a shock to me but also something I felt I could see. When it went into how it changes the Water, Fire, Earth, and Air elements, I got a deeper understand of how they view childbirth. The article discussed how TTM practitioners re-balance the self through spiritual healing, which balances the mind-heart and body with Thai massages and dietary regimens. When the article mentioned how hospitals only tend to focus on healing just the physical body, it rang a bell in my head. That's absolutely true. As with every other hospital visit, they merely just focus on our physical body and not our mind or energy health.
As I read more of the article, I came across how food is a remedy to heal the body and that only a few items (grilled chicken, rice, and salt) were allowed, and if they ate the wrong foods it would cause them to experience symptoms. This struck my interest because in my culture, when a woman gives birth she is supposed to begin a chicken diet for a whole month. I've witnessed this after my mom and aunts have given birth. I knew they weren't supposed to eat anything other than chicken and rice but I never questioned if it was due to healing, or more specifically spiritual healing. I just knew it was a cultural thing that women did postpartum. This made me want to call up my mom and ask if it was a remedy to heal the body, but she told me she wasn't sure and that I should ask my grandma the next time I see her. But this was interesting and made me question more about why we do what we do in my culture.
Week 6
It was interesting reading "Spiritual Healing Practices among Rural Postpartum Thai woman" because I never thought about postpartum experiences before. It was fascinating when I realized that even with postpartum, cultures are different. To learn traditional Thai medicine (TTM) views childbirth as something that unbalances the mind-heart and energy of the body was a bit of a shock to me but also something I felt I could see. When it went into how it changes the Water, Fire, Earth, and Air elements, I got a deeper understand of how they view childbirth. The article discussed how TTM practitioners re-balance the self through spiritual healing, which balances the mind-heart and body with Thai massages and dietary regimens. When the article mentioned how hospitals only tend to focus on healing just the physical body, it rang a bell in my head. That's absolutely true. As with every other hospital visit, they merely just focus on our physical body and not our mind or energy health.
As I read more of the article, I came across how food is a remedy to heal the body and that only a few items (grilled chicken, rice, and salt) were allowed, and if they ate the wrong foods it would cause them to experience symptoms. This struck my interest because in my culture, when a woman gives birth she is supposed to begin a chicken diet for a whole month. I've witnessed this after my mom and aunts have given birth. I knew they weren't supposed to eat anything other than chicken and rice but I never questioned if it was due to healing, or more specifically spiritual healing. I just knew it was a cultural thing that women did postpartum. This made me want to call up my mom and ask if it was a remedy to heal the body, but she told me she wasn't sure and that I should ask my grandma the next time I see her. But this was interesting and made me question more about why we do what we do in my culture.
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