Good Afternoon!

Juanito D. Guarde Jr.

Alangan Mangyan
Paitan, Naujan, Oriental Mindoro
August 10, 2016
Who are the Mangyans?
 Overview
• The Health System of Alangan Mangyans is embodied
in their culture.
• There is no such a structured Health Systems or Health
Services or Programs implemented by a particular
group of persons or by private individuals.
• But as we examine and look differ on how they live, we
can as well see how the Alangan Mangyans value Health
among the people.
• The Alangan Mangyans of
Oriental Mindoro depends
solely on the wisdom and
leadership of ELDERS called
Aplaki.
• The Mangyan Alangan elders
serve as the primary provider,
consultant and decision maker.
• They are the one who decide
what to do on particular
matters and everything that lays
concerns on the people and to
the whole Ancestral Domain.
Maintaining Good
Health
• the primary aspect
looked into by the
Alangan Mangyan
regards on FOOD
• the APLAKI decides
what to plant, when to
plant, and where to
plant
Alangan Mangyans
are mainly
subsistence
agriculturalists.
The Alangan Mangyans
depend on the environment
for their food.
 To the Alangan Mangyans, health or
wellness meant harmony with creation
which involved being able to obey and
respect the owner of the forest, the land
and all its resources. They believed that
they incur sickness when they offend the
owner and the spirits who are taking care
of the forest.
Alangan Mangyans Healing System si
facilitated by the APLAKI.

Alangan Mangyan healing system

depends primarily on the
Environment.

Alangyan Mangyans rely also on

Medicinal Plants found on the forest
and to the rest of their environment.
Some are the common ways of the healing
rituals among the Alangan Mangyans:
1. Agpansula – a ritual of praying to God through
offering a pig or a chicken (dark or black
in color)
2. Pangakuan / Panata – laying promises to Kapwan
Agalapet (God)
3. Agpamana – hitting the bad spirits through the use
bow and arrow.
Some are the common ways of the healing
rituals among the Alangan Mangyans:
4. Agloop – burning of materials (food and other
things that might cause discomfort) to
relieve from pain
5. Salabong – driving away the bad energy from
other people or unseen creatures
6. Agpanagwala – restoring of good energy of a
sick person
 Medicinal Plants used by Alangan Mangyans:
Indigenous Tagalog Term Parts Used Disease / Illness Treated Ways of Using It
Term

1. Lubidan Lubigan Stem, Leaves Stomach Ache Chewing the stem

Leaves Head Ache, Fever Placing the Alibakwaw
2. Alibakwaw leaf on the forehead
3. Geta Dita Bark of the Loss Bowel Boil the bark of Dita
Tree Movement (LBM) tree and drink the juice
Stem Lack of Red Blood Boil the bark of Dita
Cells tree and drink the juice
4. Sibukaw
Aching Body Apply the juice to the
aching body

5. Mamen Ikmo / Buyo Leaves, Stem Cold, Kabag Extract the juice and
drink it.
6. Kulutan Damong Leaves Boil Grind it and pour or
Kambing place on the boil

7. Kudyapa Mayana Leaves Asthma Extract and drink the

juice.
Stem Injured bone Together with oil, place
8. Tibanwa on the injured part.

Leaves Woman who gave Heat the leaves on fire

9. Balagasa birth and place on womb

Duso Stem and Wound Place on wound to

10. Kusor Leaves remove foreign
materials.
Alangan Mangyans believe to the
sacredness of some of the parts of
the Ancestral Domain.

Keeping those Sacred Places

sanctified makes them acquire and
maintain good health.