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Hidaklon — Meitei materia medica
Also known as Manipuri medicine, Meitei pharmacology
Hidaklon is the Meitei (Manipuri) science of medicine and healing, documented in Puya manuscripts of the Meitei kingdom and transmitted within hereditary Maiba (male) and Maibi (female) practitioner families. The system draws on an unusually plant-rich pharmacopoeia of the Imphal valley and Barak-Chindwin biome (over 400 identified medicinal species), uses mineral and animal preparations, and reads human health against a cosmology of eight Umang-Lai forest deities. Modern Manipur regulates it through the Directorate of AYUSH; the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, runs an ethno-medicinal research centre.
- Periods
- Second Urbanisation, Classical and Puranic Age, Regional Flourishing, Islamic Age and Bhakti Traditions, Early Modern Age, British Colonial Age, Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Science & medicine
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Connections (1)
- RelatedMaibaron — Meitei therapeutic practice
Hidaklon (the knowledge) and Maibaron (the practice) are the two sides of the Meitei medical tradition carried by Maiba and Maibi practitioners.
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Sources
Standard reference; Wikipedia Hidaklon.
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