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Khükhe makes a diagnosis


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Bulag, Uradyn E. 
Dorjraa 

Abstract

This video shows Khükhe conducting health check and prescribing medicines for his patients. Of the three patients in the video, who wanted to get Mongolian medicine, two are locals (one Torghut, another Uyghur) and the third is a Uyghur from the Ili district. Khükhe often prescribes a set of drugs which comprises milk, soft drink, and herbal medicine. Khükhe has taught his all of sons the basic knowledge about Mongolian medicine, hoping that they would continue his profession in the future. In this video, his son Dugurjav says that the medicine is wrapped into different shapes of paper to distinguish when to take them. The flat (habtahai) one is to be taken after breakfast, the square (hundulen) one for lunchtime and the triangle one for dinner time. Medicine, as he remembers, used to be considered by elders as a pure and holy stuff that was usually kept in clean and respectful places. They took drugs with white cloths and would leave the wrapping paper on the oboo (cairn) after taking them.

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Torghut doctor, Mongolian medicine

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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge

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Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

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