Our cities has been locked down. Schools and offices are all closed. People are wearing mask and stay at home. All of these are the result of the scare of Coronavirus Disease. The economy is slowing down so as you.

Since everyone of us are staying in the house. Our movement has been limited due to this Pandemic emergency. Lately i saw many post that people are seeking for help. They are looking for their Mayor and Barangay Captians to give them aid. But come to think of it, is everyone of us are sick?

We are not sick and those who are contracted by the Virus are being taken care of by the medical professionals. But us at home, we are all well and healthy. We are only limited on going out of our home to practice social distancing with strangers. Actually being at home is not a punishment for us but a precautionary measure that we will not be contracted with the Coronavirus Disease 2019. We should be thankful that life and wellness are still with us. But instead of complaining, let us take this opportunity to learn Home Skills and connect with our inner selves.

Practice Deep Breathing. This will calm your mind and relax your body. Drink a lot of water and it will flush out all of your body waste. Take a Bath to cool you down and it will make you safe from getting infected. And exercise, move your body to stretch. Do not be stubborn by still going out of your house. Think of what you can do and avoid being contracted with the disease. Stay at Home and be Safe!

I’ve been ask to write an article about how people could win this battle against Coronavirus Disease. I am not a medical doctor but my knowledge on Philippine Traditional Medicine could help.

Let us remember what our Grand Mother and Mother does when we are sick. They clean us and keep us warm. They put socks on our feet and cover us with thick blanket so that we get sweat. And lastly they prepare us a meal so that we could recover fast from our illness. Proper Hygiene, Hydration and Diet help us recover quickly from any ailments. And our recovery process within our body is caused by our Immune System.

Lugaw is one of the cheapest but a powerful meal that we could have to strengthen our Immunity. It is made from rice, ginger, onion, garlic, pepper and water to solute. The health benefits of these ingredients are listed down below.

Rice

When i was in Brgy. Kinakin, Banaue, Ifugao- Apung Mamerto told us that before our rice been served into the table as food, it passed through numerous rituals. So technically, the rice that we are eating are already ritually blessed.

Rice are the gift of the Gods to humanity specially for the Filipino. I remember that i compare the rice to other grains that when you soaked it into water it will not sprout unlike others. But this grain of rice has a power to boost your energy and sustain life.

It is said that rice can provide you instant energy as well as it can regulate and improve bowel movement and manage blood sugar level. It also plays a role in providing Vitamin B1 to the Human Body.

Vitamin B1 fights against many nervous disorder and helps to improve memory. That is why i remember when i was still at school, my mother told me not to skip my breakfast (which consist of fried rice, egg and tuyo) as it will not make my mind work if i come to school hungry.

Other benefit of rice include its ability to aid skin care, boost metabolism, regulate digestion, reduce blood pressure, boost the immune system and provide protection against chronic disease.

When i was at Mamerto’s place at Kinakin, Banaue- the rice spirit have talked to me that said that they can be used as poultice to mend the broken bones. So i get one table spoon of cooked rice and pound it together with tiger and carabao grass and applied it to the broken leg wrapping it with a banana leaf.

Ginger

Salabat or Ginger Tea is a popular recipe of our grandfather during the cold weather season. It is also the secret formula of the old singer/ artist to obtain a good voice. But aside from keeping us warm and to have a good voice, Salabat or Ginger Tea is also used to relieve cough.

The active component of Ginger is called Gingerol which has a powerful anti-inflamatory and antioxidant effect. It is said that Ginger is used to help digestion, reduce nausea, and help fight flu and common cold.

According to Healthline.com, Gingerol can help to lower the risk of infection. Fresh ginger may also be effective against the RSV Virus, a common cause of respiratory infection.

Onion

Onions contain various vitamins and minerals as it grow underground. I personally eat onion as blood purifier. But in ancient times it is used to cure headaches, heart disease, and mouth sores.

As we have mentioned that Onion are nutrient dense, it highly contains vitamins C that involved in regulating immune system, collagen production, tissue repair and iron absorption.

Vitamins C acts as a powerful antioxidant in our body, protecting our cells against damage caused by Free Radicals.

Onions are also rich in B Vitamins which are folate (b9) and pyrodoxine (b6) which play key roles in metabolism, red blood cell production and nerve function.

Onions are a rich source of fiber and prebiotics, which are necessary for optimal gut health.

prebiotics, which are necessary for optimal gut health.

Prebiotics are nondigestible types of fiber that are broken down by beneficial gut bacteria.

Gut bacteria feed on prebiotics and create short-chain fatty acids — including acetate, propionate and butyrate.

Research has shown that these short-chain fatty acids strengthen gut health, boost immunity, reduce inflammation and enhance digestion.

Additionally, consuming food rich in prebiotics helps increase probiotics, such as Lactobacillus and bifidobacteria strains, which benefit digestive health.

A diet rich in prebiotics may help improve the absorption of important minerals like calcium, which may improve bone health.

Onions are particularly rich in the prebiotics inulin and fructooligosaccharides. These help increase the number of friendly bacteria in your gut and improve immune function.

Garlic

In Philippine folklore and mythology, garlic is known among Filipino as weapon to drive away the Aswang and Manananggal which as form of demon that hunts people at night. Most Filipino foods has garlic on it such as the morning Fried Rice or the Adobo or better yet the Pares meal.

One clove of garlic contains the following:

• Manganese
• Vitamin B6
• Vitamin C
• Selenium
• Fiber
• Calcium
• Copper
• Potassium
• Phosporus
• Iron
• Vitamin B1

Garlic is also known to boost Immune System.

Pepper

Black pepper is rich in plant compound known as piperine, which is found to have a potent antioxidant properties which help prevent and delay the damaging effects of free radicals.

Chronic inflamation may be an underlying factor in many conditions, such as arthritis, heart disease, diabetes and cancer on which Black Pepper may effectively fight inflamation. I remember that my father also use black pepper feeding to our chicken that has illness and for giving bath when sick.

So with every spoonful of Lugaw coming into your mouth, you are also welcoming these healing agents to be within you to work and strengthen your immune system. By having a daily dose of these food medicine, together with proper hygiene and exercise, we are confident enough that we can overcome this Pandemic situation that we have by protecting our bodies from getting infected.

So stay healthy everyone!

フィリピンのヒーラーの強力なコラボレーションに参加して、フィリピンの古代の癒しの方法を世界に伝えましょう。このイベントでは、4人の強力なヒーラーが協力してエネルギーの渦を作り、ワークショップに参加する人々の内なる癒しの力を呼び起こします。

このギフトを世界に紹介するコラボレーターは次のとおりです。

フィリピンの伝統的な先住民のスピリチュアリティに関するリバイバリスト教会である、Luntiang Aghama Natural Divine Arts Shrine of Healing Inc.のBinabaylang Tala（民族のシャーマンであり、司祭）であるLakay Magbaya Aghamaは、先祖のエネルギーに私たち自身が繋がるように導きます。
Landas Ng Lahiの創設者であり、Binabaylan（シャーマン）のHilot アカデミーであるApu Adman Aghamaが、フィリピン先住民の癒しに関する先祖代々の知識を教えてくれます。

【　参加費用：2700.00米ドル　】

含まれるもの：

・食事（朝食と昼食）と宿泊
・Hilot学習教材（日本語）と認定証明書
・毎日のヨガと瞑想
・カミギン島のツアー

※航空券代は含まれておりません。各自ご手配の程お願い申し上げます。

【　このイベントの開催予定は次の通りです。　】

• １回目　2020年6月22日から7月4日までです。
• ２回目　2020年7月6日から7月18日までです。
• 3 回目 2020年8月8日から8月20日までです

１回の開催で参加できる人数は、２０名まで。

【　基本的なタイムスケジュールは次のとおりです。　】

6:00 AM 起床/朝の準備
7:00 AM 毎日のヨガと瞑想
8:00 AM 朝食
9:00 AM ワークショップ
12:00 NN 昼食
1:00 PM クラスの再開

【　ワークショップの流れ　】

Hilot ワークショップは2つのパートに分かれます。
最初の4日間はマインドとスピリチュアルな働きに焦点を当て、残りの後半はフィリピンの伝統的なヒロットを先祖の癒しの芸術と科学として適用する方法を学ぶための文字通りのボディワークを含みます。

上記のワークショップの終わりに、参加者は私たちの教師によって教えられた次のスキルを自信を持って能力を持って実行することが期待されます。

・患者/クライアントプロファイルの収集
・脈拍読み取り分析
・キルバンサ元素名エネルギーバランス分析
(Babaylanの言葉で名前のエネルギーを読む方法)
・TAWAS：従来の代替ウェルネス分析システム　
(ミョウバンと紙とろうそくを使って人の健康状態を占うもの)
・Hilot 健康法（Suob、Hilod、Paligo）
(ハーブを使った蒸気で身体を温めた後、薬草を使って身体を擦るHilot)
・Herbal Hilot：治療に影響を与えるハーブを使用したHilot
(癒しのオイル、塗薬、軟膏、チンキ剤、シロップ、錠剤を使ったHilot）
・ダグダゲイ/クリス：フィリピンの伝統的なフットマッサージ
・ベンチュサファイアカッピング：カップで肌を吸引する方法
・Hilot Pahid：Hilotのマッサージに適したオイルを選択する技術 etc

お問い合わせ、予約、支払いの詳細については、以下にお問い合わせください。

齋藤真弓
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Free your self from the fear of getting infected. Stay at home and you’ll be safe. Make sure that all areas of your house are clean. Don’t stock up with so many things in your house as it invites many creatures such as pathogens or disease bringing micro organism get inside your house. Hoarding so much food will invite creatures that will spoil or decompose your stuffs. So as too much toilet papers and other products will invite rats and cockroaches. Just stay calm and covid 19 will not enter your house as long as you practice mindfulness.

Detoxify your self and strengthen your immunity. You can practice what our ancestors does in protecting them selves from any disease and evil spirit. You can do a self care Suob/ Palina in your house either doing it steam or dry.

Technically Suob/ Palina is a Hilot Treatment that induce sweating and perspiration either through steam vapor or dry fumigation. According to Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine, Creating false fever can cure any disease. Accordingly, Fever is our body’s natural response to pathogens or disease causing bacteria or viruses. Thus heat produce by our body helps maintain good health and wellness.  Heal is also a response to the rise of temperature within our body.  Suob/Palina creates artificial fever by rising body temperature that helps our body fight pathogens within us.

Sweating and Perspiration is a natural reaction due to the rise of temperature within our body. Usually, sweat contains water and various salts and other substances.  Sweat is a waste product made by our body.  And it needs to expel out from our body so that it will not become toxins.  Toxins are poisons and are dangerous to our health and wellness.  Suob   helps sweating process to detoxify our body from poisons that can be found inside our body.

Hilot Suob/ Palina treatment is governed by the Principle of Heat Therapy. Heat is a therapeutic agent used for healing. Induced heat by suob can be called artificial fever. During a Fever, the functioning of the immune system is stimulated, while the growth of bacteria and viruses is forced to slow down.  The production of white blood cells, the primary agents of the immune system, is increased, as is the rate of their release into the blood stream.  The generation of anti-bodies speeds up, as does the production of interferon, an anti-viral protein that also has powerful cancer-fighting properties.

It is an island province in the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about 10 kilometers off the northern coast of Mindanao. It is geographically part of Region X which is the Northern Mindanao Region and formerly part of Misamis Oriental Province.

The name Camiguin is derived from the native word Kamagong which is a specie of Ebony tree that thrives near Lake Mainit in the province of Surigao Del Norte, the region from which the early inhabitant, the Manobo’s came from. Manobo’s are Indigenous People that comes from Northern Mindano which are known as The River People. It is derived from the word “Mansuba” which means man or people, and “suba” means river. It is said that Manobo people are great hunter and as well as a healer.

I found a story on the Internet that narrates how the Manobo People originates and you can found the info at Things Asian.

According to the Story  the Manobo’s were lead by two brothers: Mumalu and Tabunaway, they lived by the Banobo creek, which flowed into the Mindanao River near the present site of Cotabato City. In the 14th century Sharif Kabungsuan, a muslim missionary, arrived from Johore, to convert the people of Mindanao. Tabunaway did not want to convert to Islam but told his younger brother not to reject the Muslim Faith. Tabunaway and his followers moved up the Pulangi River to the interior of Cotabato, they decided to part ways and in the years to come established their own tribes. These groups retained their indigenous beliefs, practices and the name of their original site, Banobo, which eventually became Manobo, the descendant’s of Mamalu became the Maguindanao.

It is nice to know that the people of Camiguin are descendants from the Manobo Tribe which also connects to my lineage that my Paternal Ancestry comes from Surigao Del Norte.

From June, July and August of 2020, Hilot Academy will explore the Beauty and Wonders of Camiguin Island as we will conduct our very first Halikana Workshop as conceived by our friend Archimedes De Leon.

The workshop that is to happen in Camiguin Island will be a collaborative work and effort coming from our Elders and Great Healers of our Time.

Mamerto Tindongan is an 8th Generation Mumbaki from Brgy. Kinakin, Banaue, Ifugao, Philippines. He was known for his work as wood sculpting, Blacksmith, Qi gong/ Tai Chi/ Yoga Instructor and have developed the Ifugao Farmer’s Qigong known as Umuwachiyan Chi Nitaguwan.

Apung Lagitan is also the initiator of “Self Healing through Shamanic Journey “.

Lets get to know more about Apung Lagitan as we watch this Video.

I hope that everyone will come and experience the great collaboration of our Indigenous Healers in Camiguin Island, Philippines on June- August 2020.

For more details you may visit our Facebook Event Page by clicking on the link.

Babaylan Studies in Camiguin

Prevention is better than cure specially right now when there is no cure for 2019 Coronavirus Disease (Covid 19). Since there are no known cure for this new disease but it’s symptoms are already known as it can be found published on the internet and news media.

The Symptoms for this disease are:

• Runny nose
• Sore throat
• Fough
• Fever
• and difficulty in breathing (severe cases)

The symptoms are known already so we must prevent to have one of those listed symptoms. World Health Organization have released an advice on how we can protect our selves being contaminated with this new virus.

It is said that cleaning our hands with soap and water or hand sanitizer will kill the viruses that are present in our hands. We must cover our mouth when coughing or sneezing then sanitize again our hands to prevent the spread of contamination.

The main public scare here is when a person sneeze or cough, people will think that you are infected with Coronavirus. And with that Social Distancing of 3 feet apart are advised so that we can avoid contamination.

Again we are warned to distance our selves to the persons with cough and fever. So at this moment, when you have cough and fever you will be likely a scare bomb to the public. With this we must take care of ourselves and strengthen our immune system so that we do not get sick.

Our Ancestors have taught us simple techniques on how to strengthen our immunity and that is through drinking Salabat (Ginger) Tea. It is believed that drinking Ginger Tea will help you in the following areas:

• Relieve Nausea
• Improve Stomach performance
• Reduce Inflamation
• Fight Respiratory problems
• Improve Blood Circulation
• Relieve Menstrual Discomfort
• Strengthen Immunity
• and Relieve Stress

Aside from drinking Ginger Tea, we can use the infused rhizomes of Ginger as disinfectant. So there is no need to panic buying on rubbing alcohol or hand sanitiser because we can use Ginger Tea to disinfectour hands to kill viruses.

Due to Covid 19 outbreak worldwide, people around the world do panic buying and hoarding disinfectant such as 70% rubbing alcohol and sanitizer.

But did you know that mother nature provides natural cure and disinfectant? Yes, it does! But how?

Many Filipino cook rice. And as we prepare rice we wash it. And many of us throw to the sink the washed rice water.

But did you know that we can ferment the rice water and become a natural disinfectant. We do this by adding salt and sugar to the rice water kept on a tight cap bottle. After 24 hours it will become a Lactic Acid Bacteria that we can use for disinfectant.

You can learn more about Lactic Acid Bacteria by checking this site:

https://www.lacto-life.com/basic

I am hearing his name since 2017 and from that time I follow his wonderful works. He have been love by many Filipino Americans in the States and have connected with the World Indigenous Shamans from different culture and tradition. I feel unworthy to be in his presence but through a friend and by universal will, our realms have met and do a ritual together.