Medicine

Antidote for venom of snake called "rice leaf" (pawm= leaf, pele= rice). When one is bitten by any snake, leaves of tshok or of bel tampel are chewed and kept in the mouth while sucking the wound. Then, in this case, leaves of bimbia are boiled in an earthenware pot and the wound steamed over it. After this, leaves of kentri tthoke are burned to ashes, mixed with red palm oil and rubbed on the wound. Pawm pele (or kewai) is the Yasi snake and protector of the Yasi Society. CF. 37-22-207 (gbangge bok) and sitaba (37-22-227).