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.

Isaac Newton have said: ” For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

World Health Organization have identified Coronaviruses as Large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) which they identify to be transmited to humans from Civet Cat and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS- Cov) which was transmited to humans from dromedary camels.

But this new strain which is known as the Novel Coronavirus which is popularly known as CoVid-19 has not been identify yet. They have known well that Coronaviruses are Zoonotic which means they are transmited between animals and people. If only the source has been known, then we all can be sure that there will be cure.

So for now, let us all be vigilant with regards to the symptoms of Covid 19. Check out for any Fever, Cough and Shortness of Breathe.

Practice proper etiquette in socializing as well as proper hygiene. Strengthen our body’s immunity with proper diet and exercise. Clean our environment and have faith in God.

Sooner or later we will find a cure as it has been said that: “For any action there is an equal or opposite reaction.”

Done writing the 30 page and 10,656 words Learning Material for Habi Herbalist Class.

In this learning material will introduce to our students the indigenous beliefs of the Filipino and why herbs are important in healing.

On using this material, the student will be able to:

• Communicate with Plant Medicine Spirit in order to know the beneficial effects that it could provide to your health as well as into your life.
• Learn the proper way of gathering herbs.
• Make herbal preparations.
• Perform different applications of Herbal Medicine.

Technically, this Learning Material upon successful completion will make you a Hilot Herbalist.

In Philippine Herbalism applied by Hilot, it is believed that the type of illness that is contracted in a particular area is somewhat dependent on the environmental conditions. The herbs that grow in that particular area take on the characteristics of their environment resulting in the production of certain adaptive plant chemicals that may strengthen the individual tolerance to that particular environment.

This only means that the herbs that grows naturally in our community can be used to treat to the illness that the people suffer in that particular areas. But now-a-days such as the Spread of CoVid 19 it becomes a world epidemic that brought fear to everyone.

To a Manghihilot, there is always cure to every illness. This is also true to medical doctors. But if we treat illness with fear, naturally the person who suffer from illness will die than survive.

If Covid 19 is a man made disease, then man can create cure to this. But if it is from Nature, then Nature had already provided cure to this disease so there is nothing to be afraid of.