Tripuri Priest or Ochai: What I’m scared is in the battle of top religion’s. Our Tripuris ancestors religion might get buried. There is no one who take great interest studying our Ancestors religion. Neither there is hand written book or rules of practice book. Only it’s pass onto generation to generation.
Which is more risky now, due to we are into mentality of modernization, so following the old rituals which is not trending became kind of boring.
Tripura Priest
A Tripuris priest (Ochai) used to be known as Doctor of village. Who can cure patient by certain rituals or by providing certain folk(Ayurvedic) medicine.
As the folk medicine of Tripuris Ochai. These are as follows:
To remove the speck on the eye the Ochaï-cum-medical practitioner treats the patient by taking seven pieces of onion. On the first day of the treatment the Ochai’ bitesa piece of onion and gives a blow from the mouth on the affected eyes of the patient and thereafter he utters charms and incantations.
He recites charms and incantationsseventimes and each time he bitesa piece of onion and blasts a blow from the mouth. On the second day the “Ochai’ uses his charms and incantations on the affected eyes of the patient five times in the aforesaid way. ment three times in the similar way and the disease is cured. If this treatment fails, same disease of the eye. In this case they apply juice of a leaf of a specific tree in the eye for three to four days and the disease is cured.
If anybody suffers from fever, they advise him to take the juice of a creeper, named ‘Sangdari’ in Tripuri, with sugar.
Thosewho suffer from loss of appetite take a medicine for normalisation of the feeling of appetite. They grind the seed of a little tree named “Tharai’ and take it with water.
Sometimes they apply a composite herb to stop the bleeding from a cut by grinding the leaf of ‘Masundui’, ‘Sambrema’ and °Durba grass together.
To cure throat pain they arc used to take the juice of the root of a tree named Takkhi Cheleng’. To collect this very type of root a rule is to be followed. The root of the Takkhicheleng’ tree which is bent towards west is to be collected for medicine by stopping the breath.
A special device is applied for the remedy of the ulcer caused at the backside of the children’s ear. For this disease they collect the mushroom on the dead tree named Muikhumu Kachauk’ and after burning it rub the ash of that mushroomon the ulcer. It is noticed that this medicine is effective to cure the disease.
If eruptions spreadout on the body of a child a medicinepreparedby mixingTil Oil’ and the juice of the roots of a tree named Rou’ is rubbed on the body.
To get rid of the attack of the freckles they apply a medicine prepared from the seed of a little tree named ‘Muitapi’to the affected place of the body for at least three to four days in a row.
A medicine prepared by mizing the coconut oil and lime water is prescribed to apply on the sore caused by burn.
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