Recap
This dress, imbued with cultural meanings, is considered to be the symbol of the physician's profession.
What is the white coat?
The term commonly used by Filipinos to refer to hypertension
What is high blood?
Usually occurring during the first trimester of pregnancy, this Filipino cultural belief refers to a phenomenon in which a pregnant woman develops an intense craving for certain foods and an intense liking for certain objects.
A mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride. It is typically used in food.
What is salt?
In the Philippines, a folk healer is called an ______.
Who is an albularyo?
Gaines (2008) describes this concept as the professional ethnomedicine of the West.
What is biomedicine?
Filipinos believe that eating foods that contain a high amount of this fat-like, waxy substance causes hypertension.
This Filipino term refers to “the passing on of a trait to the younger generation.
What is pagmamana or namamana?
An edible starchy cereal grain whose domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population.
What is rice?
A dark giant who likes to smoke huge rolls of cigars and hide within and atop large trees such as an old acacia and mango trees.
Who is a kapre?
This term is suggested to mean "with the woman." This also refers to healthcare providers who care for mothers and newborns around childbirth.
Who is a midwife?
What is anemia or low blood?
This Chinese concept refers to the balance between the two opposite, complementary, interdependent forces of nature.
What is yin and yang?
The generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.
What is sugar?
This Filipino folklore creature lives inside a mound of earth, sometimes mistaken to be termites’ home, usually seen to be slightly smaller than the average dwende.
Who is nuno sa punso?
It is the technical term used in anthropology for its core methodology. It refers to an anthropologist’s description of what life is like in a “local world,” a specific setting in a society—usually one different from that of the anthropologist’s world.
Complete the statement made by Pacito, a respondent in the study: As what people say here, when you have high blood, you have _____ na dugo.
What is malapot or thick?
This Filipino medical concept is roughly defined as an “exposure illness” which occurs when a condition considered to be “hot” is attacked by a “cold” element and vice versa.
What is pasma?
A beverage brewed from the roasted and ground seeds of a tropical evergreen plant.
What is coffee?
This word refers to spirits that haunt places or people and that can also disguise themselves as regular people.
What is maligno?
Defined as the “avoidance of disease and disability, maintenance of high physical and cognitive function, and sustained engagement in social and productive activities."
What is successful aging?
This term refers to local or native understandings of how a medical condition is understood, conceptualized, and experienced.
What is folk physiology?
This Filipino term directly translates to God's will. This concept helps families cope and accept their life experiences.
Lipids (fats) made from plants, animals, or synthetic compounds used when frying, baking, and preparing foods for consumption.
What is cooking oil?
A huge dark monster covered with thick black hair. They are known to attack unsuspecting victims at night, oftentimes, torturing them by sitting on their chest until the victims helplessly gasps for his breath eventually succumbing to death. They are sometimes seen as the cause of deaths from bangungot.
Who is batibat?