To be sick in America means a variety of different things. A patient can have problems that range in symptoms but they all have one commonality, the person is in pain. Doctors are there to help find a way to subside the difficulties if they persist of get rid of the stressor as fast as possible. Lia Lee was a sufferer of epilepsy and the doctors chose to help her with a quick cocktail of prescribed medications. Her family didn’t believe in talking meds and instead tried a more spiritually sound route. Their cure were ranged but they all had the same basic principle, to make Lia well again. Chapter 9 was interesting in the effort to describe some of the home remedies used to cure Lia. In the instance of the severed cow head that was used
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These ranged from Foua rubbing a cloth covered boiled egg with a silver coin inserted in the yolk to putting a small cup of heated ashes on the Lia’s skin to create a small vacuum to suck out the impurities (111). In this way Hmong culture is not as dissimilar to American culture. American culture is all about quick fixes when it comes to being ill. Our go to remedy for any sickness are over the counter drugs which we take and hope to be symptom free the next day. If these don’t work we may on occasion seek out the opinion of a physician and if not we come up with our own cures. In my family in particular we have cure for everything. If you had a headache you would drink a gallon of water and then take a nap, afterwards your headache would magically be gone because you were obviously dehydrated. Each was on a pass or fail scale but the majority of them did help in counter one minuscule symptom. When I was a kid I thought I created my own cure for the flu, what you did was consume a vast amount of chocolate or dairy products to make you produce a large amount of chest congestion and every time you expelled it out of your body more of the sickness would leave. Now I just make my own cocktails of teas and cold/flu meds with aspirin acting as my chaser. Most families have their own ways own doing things for the Lees they seek out the tvix neeb, and
These ranged from Foua rubbing a cloth covered boiled egg with a silver coin inserted in the yolk to putting a small cup of heated ashes on the Lia’s skin to create a small vacuum to suck out the impurities (111). In this way Hmong culture is not as dissimilar to American culture. American culture is all about quick fixes when it comes to being ill. Our go to remedy for any sickness are over the counter drugs which we take and hope to be symptom free the next day. If these don’t work we may on occasion seek out the opinion of a physician and if not we come up with our own cures. In my family in particular we have cure for everything. If you had a headache you would drink a gallon of water and then take a nap, afterwards your headache would magically be gone because you were obviously dehydrated. Each was on a pass or fail scale but the majority of them did help in counter one minuscule symptom. When I was a kid I thought I created my own cure for the flu, what you did was consume a vast amount of chocolate or dairy products to make you produce a large amount of chest congestion and every time you expelled it out of your body more of the sickness would leave. Now I just make my own cocktails of teas and cold/flu meds with aspirin acting as my chaser. Most families have their own ways own doing things for the Lees they seek out the tvix neeb, and