Describing the paarvai paarthal-traditional practices for diagnosis and management of poisonous bites in Tirunelveli District, Tamilnadu
International Journal of Development Research
Describing the paarvai paarthal-traditional practices for diagnosis and management of poisonous bites in Tirunelveli District, Tamilnadu
Received 09th June, 2019; Received in revised form 27th July, 2019; Accepted 04th August, 2019; Published online 28th September, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Gowthami et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Paarvai paarthal is a traditionally practiced method of magical healing the poisonous bite. Study of traditional healing practices is an important area in the discipline of folklore and anthropology in traditional societies most of the bodily illness are related to supernatural power and several kinds of ritual, vows and offering are performed in order to heal the illness .it tries to understand how the body is culturally professed, purified and healed through rituals in a particular cultural context. Finally the study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, healthcare seeking behaviour and practice regarding poisonous bite among paarvai paarthal.
