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Maibaron — Meitei therapeutic practice
Also known as Maibarol, Maiba practice, Maibi practice
Maibaron (also Maibarol) is the Meitei art and science of therapeutic practice — the lived craft that applies the materia medica of Hidaklon. It combines herbal medicine, pulse diagnosis (Nādi), spiritual ritual, bone-setting, and the earlier crude surgical techniques of Meitei civilisation. Practitioners are the Maiba (male) and Maibi (female); the older term Ametpa meant literally 'masseur' and colloquially 'therapist'. The Maibi are also the ritual mediums of the Lai Haraoba festival, which places Meitei medicine inside a continuous priestly and healing tradition.
- 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)
- RelatedHidaklon — Meitei materia medica
Hidaklon (the knowledge) and Maibaron (the practice) are the two sides of the Meitei medical tradition carried by Maiba and Maibi practitioners.
On these journeys
Sources
Standard reference; Wikipedia Maibaron.
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