Now days,
no one practically learn about incantations or ‘khata’ in Traditional Thai
Medicine (TTM) anymore. I think it is not complete to dismiss the spiritual
sides of TTM and only goes for the physical treatment aspects. But it is not
for me to advocate the use of incantations to general public although I
personally use many of the ‘khata’ in treating my own illnesses with excellent
results.
Instead of
giving a list of ‘khata’, let us go over how these ‘khata’ are used.
For
example:
A formula
for preventing illnesses in winter such as flue, cough and digestive problems needs
to grind the following herbs together:
·
Coriandrum
Sativum (芫荽)
·
Holarrhena
Antidysentiea Wall (止泻木)
·
Acorus
Gramineus (菖蒲)
·
Momordica
Charantia (野苦瓜)
The
pulverized herbal formula is then consumed with Citrus Medica (佛手).
In old TTM,
those herbs need to be empowered before hand with the below ritual:
First the
guru is invoked to bless the healer and the patient with the below khata (abridged):
Wantiduwa sivasapati
sipang tipamantaneng sindijaiyang palindumie (3x)
Then the
king of herbs, in this case the Citrus Medica is invoked with the below khata:
Siddhigenjang
siddhikan siddhigalatathagatang siddhi tejena ganmiena ahjaliyang namamihan!
(3x)
And then
the four ingredients above are empowered with the below khata:
Orkana mahakana orana
maharana jijupengpan paya tiweinasiandhi soha!
Finally all
of the herbs are again empowered to enhance their healing effects:
Satusuniantu
panto sivate rukawana wasianto amasami sitisajatumie mamawenti! (3x)
Of course the TTM is not the only healing school using incantations, the Ayurveda, Taoist cults and Tibetan healing systems etc. also practise one kind of incantation or another. Perhaps we can explore other systems in future.
On the surface,
it seems the above are mumbo jumbo to modern folks, but perhaps we have missed
out the main point: we human are not made of just physical body. If we only
treat our body and ignoring the spiritual sides; how then can we be healed
completely? No wonder why modern folks suffer from so many incurable
sicknesses! That is something for us to think about…
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