Health

Institution
What is
HEALTH •Primarily
INSTITUTI established to
ON? ensure public
health and to
provide
universal health
services Kinds
 •- Is a relapse of the
body’s system after it
has healed from
What is sickness.
Bughat or • - Is described as
Binat? something that
happens to a person
that has recently healed
from a sickness but
• Bughat (Ilonggo term) or Binat (Tagalog
version) is the term used to refer to the
ailment (headache, chills, body pains,
malaise, dizziness, muscle weakness, and in
some it is blindness) a mother experiences
after giving birth or after having a suffered
abortion or miscarriage is she did not
follow certain rituals after childbirth.
 The list of Prohibited
activities include:
• 1. Drinking cold water • 9. Opening one’s legs or
crossing them Indian-style
• 2.
Eating coconut or other
(must be always closed as
coconut-based viand like
air might go inside the
ginataan
uterus and this will bring
• 3.Going up and down the about pain)
stairs
• 10. Walking around
• 4.
Getting a manicure or
• 11. Reading a book
pedicure
• 12. Sewing
• 5. Go hungry or miss meals.
• 14.Not taking a first bath
• 6.Taking a bath immediately
with the 7-leaves concoction
after giving birth (must be 3-7
• Usog is related to “Bales”. Just like in bales, usog
victims suffer like abdominal distress, or
abdominal distension, sometimes with severa
nausea. These conditions are attributed to a
certain word or comment like:
“You look pretty today.”
“What a Beautiful child!”
Immediately the word “Puwerausog!” is used as
an initial therapy and as a preventive word when
usog is suspected to happen.
What is Usog or Bughat?

• Usogis a filipino superstition that

attribubtes and illness to the
greeting of a stranger.
• Sometimes, usog is also attributed to the
inhaling of “alimuom”, the sulfuric odorous
heat vapours coming from the surface of
the earth, after a rain. Some give attribution
to a “bad wind” that emanates from
someone who is supernaturally endowed
with such an ability to cause ill health
through verbal utterances.
 System of Diagnosis, Prevention
and Healing

Traditional Medicine Herbal Medicines Traditional use of herbal

medicines

Therapeutic activity Active Ingredient

 • Complementary/alternativ
Traditional e medicine (CAM)
Medicine • refers to the knowledge,
skills and practises based
on the theories, beliefs
and experiences
indigenous to different
cultures, used in the
maintenance of health and
in the prevention,
diagnosis, improvement or
Herbal • Herbalmedicine is
medicin the oldest and still
es the most widely used
system of medicine in
the world today. It is
medicine made
exclusively from
plants.
Traditional • Refers to the long historical use of
these medicines. Their use is well
Use of established and widely acknowledge
to be safe and effective, and maybe
Herbal accepted by national authorities.

Medicines
Therapeuti • Refers to the successful
prevention, diagnosis and
c Activities treatment of physical and
mental illness;
improvement of
symptoms of illness; as
well as beneficial
alteration or regulation of
the physical and mental
status of the body.
 • Refer to ingredients of herbal
Active medicines with therapeutic
Ingredient activity. In herbal medicines
where the active ingredients
have been identified, the
preparation of these
medicines should be
standardized to contain a
defined amount of the active
ingredients, If adequate
analytical methods are
available. In cases where it is
not possible to identify the
active ingredients, the whole
herbal medicine may be
considered as one active