Medical Beliefs of the Hmong People Depicted in the Book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

In seedling nationality, they have their own traditional beliefs, and they will hardly change for different atmospheres. Some people prefer the traditional medicine, cultural activities, rituals, and spiritual influences in the Mong tribe. In the book "Spirit grabs you and your autumn" it refers to Miao culture and beliefs about their medicine, and their children Lia Lee suffer from epilepsy, and these are I make a hard decision with illness. Traditional seedling people have their own medicinal beliefs and they follow before getting Western medicine.

The spirit of Anne Fadiman catches you and your fall is about cross-cultural ethics in medicine. This book relates to Miao's child named Lili who has epilepsy. Epilepsy is known as Kuogdab Peg 1 in Miao culture, it turns into a spirit that captures you and your autumn. In Miao culture this disease is a sign of difference and divinity, as most Miao with epilepsy becomes a shaman, or Miao people call it txiv neeb 2. These wizards are special people with a healing spirit, for the sake of faithful people, this disease is a gift or a curse for the rear parents, Huyang and Naokaori.

Li Li was born in San Joaquin Valley, California, born as a mon-refugee. At the age of 3 months, she first showed signs of Qaug dab peg called epilepsy on the west side (the mind captured you and you fell down). Her superior doctor sees the best treatment among the dazzling pills, but her parents took a combination of Western medicine and folk remedy to guide her wandering soul back to her body prefer. . In the next four years, cultural differences and linguistic misinformation between Lia's affectionate parents and her compassionate doctors worsen further, eventually losing all of Lia's advanced brain function I will. Fadiman has compiled this personal tragedy, explorative medical research, and an attractive view on the history and culture of the Hmong, into a splendid and productive contemporary news article.

The spirit catches you, and you fall: a child of the Mong, her American doctor, and a collision of the two cultures

The spirit of Anne Fadiman caught you, and your autumn is an amazing and exciting book that changed the perception of my traditional Western health care. Lee Lee, a refugee family of the Mong tribe suffering from severe epilepsy landed in California, so she was a kind American medical doctor at a local hospital, her compassionate family, and the wider Mong tribe spirit We started fighting with community. Take care of her. Obviously, everyone wants to be most profitable to Lia, and it is impossible to condemn this except for the cultural communication gap between the two. Fadiman is a productive and thoughtful writer, journalist and anthropologist, and her books should be a must-read book. "... stubborn pressure in seedling nationality has been trying to leave to death for thousands of years."