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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Traditional Healers

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Despite of various technology and modern alternative available to treat psychiatric disease, people are still approaching traditional ways in order to treat the problems. In Malaysia, consulting for traditional treatment from traditional healers are popular even among the patients with mental illness (48%) as compared to general practitioner (24%) or psychiatric service (28%) and they often seek help from traditional healers prior to consulting psychiatric service (Phang & Salina, 2010). Phang & Salina (2010) also stated that the higher prevalence of contact with traditional healers are mainly due to patients being violent and thus consulting traditional healer is more convenient as they can do a home visit to treat the patient. According to Phang and Salina (2010), majority of the patient who encounter traditional healers often receive treatment options such as prayer (96.3%), holy water (77.8%), morality-based advice (33.3%), dietary advice (29.5%), massage (11.1%), and herbs (7.4%).
The Main Puteri is an indigenous Malay psychotherapy in the form of an elaborate exorcism (Razali, 1999). The sole purpose of Main Puteri is to heal an individual patient by persuading malign spirits to leave the patient’s body which was thought to be the reason of psychiatric disease. The ceremony is commonly performed for three nights at the patient 's house and conducted by To 'Peteri (Bomoh Peteri or Bomoh) and the guide, To 'Mindok (Wright, 1980). The To 'Mindok plays the rebab (spike

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