Indonesia Traditional Sick Treatment

Hi, I am Arveno from Surabaya city. in this content i want to share about my family treatment. Actually i dont think its only my family that doing this treatment. Maybe almost Indonesia people doing this when they are got cold or flu. We called this treatment with Kerokan. So, lately after i am going to my parents house, i cannot sleep well because the room temperature and the bed is different also the sikardian system is really different. Thats why i cannot sleep well for few days. And i am really tired too after the journey. So, i got sick, i think this is just common cold or flu. Since i am having runny nose, sneezing all day, and my eyes is heavy but cannot sleep. When i am close my eyes, my brain still function normaly and still conscious. So, i am asking my mom to treatment me with Kerokan. When i am on Surabaya,usually my wife that treatment me like that using baby oil, but when my mom treatment me, she using really hot balm and start to scratching my back using coin. The different withing my mom treatment and my wife treatment beside the balm is the coin. My mom using the really steril ancient coin ( i dont know from where she got this coin and maybe i get delegated after she died) And my wife using usual coin.

Did you curious how to make my back having tattoo like that?
Yep at first my mom smear the hot balm on my neck and back. Then after that she started to scratching using ancient coin until my skin goes to red like that. It continues until reaching lower back above kidney area. And what i fell??
I can guess that you guys afraid and said it must be hurt right??
Nope, i felt ticklish.Really it ticklish me a lot until make me avoided being scratched. Until some point it hurt a little bit but i can handle it. Maybe around 2 out of 10 of the pain. And after done this treatment, my body feels refreshed. Maybe it just because the hot balm really make my body warm and kinda hot. And also this scratch makes some of the blood flow more fluent and make the blood vessel relax and thicker so the blood can flow more to all my body. And this treatment can long last until 1- 2 days.

But, for health science, is this method really effective??
I dont know since they are literally no research paper about this treatment. But, what i feel is my runny nose done and my headache is starting to subside. So it worked right?
I dont know this method is getting used in your country or not. But in my country this method is really famous and used as first triage in home. And when the cold or the flu not going away by this method we usually drink generic meds first before we are going to doctor. But when we are get the fever, it is time to consult at doctor. And as long as this method cured without meds, yeah why not right?
But, i suggested if you guys having really low pain tolerance, please dont do it. If you guys having high pain tolerance and want to try, check on youtube, there are a lot tutorial of this from Indonesia.
In the end keep healthy guys, sending love from Indonesia

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