HUMAN RIGHTS FOR INDIGENOUS WAY OF HEALING IN ADIVASI INDIA

The Adivasis India till the British Government and later Indian Government interfered had their own traditional way of healing, effective all through the past centuries, by the traditional use of herbs, shamans, other para medical healings and healers. The tribal system of healing or the indigenous practices of traditional healings are popular even today, times more effective when modern medicinal system fails. Among the Bhils of Jhabua there is popular saying that the traditional Bhil healers 'Martaan nen jivad de' meaning even the dead are brought back to life. But in the last two or three decades, an enormous harm is done to the traditional, tribal, indigenous or Adivasi way of healing, in the sense the forests are cleared by the non tribals and the Government, traditional practices are prevented, as the faked doctors take control of the tribal or the Bhil health in the country side. Instead of empowering, enriching and further elevating the tribal healers by training they destroyed the tribals in several ways and one is this by impoverishing them, in their own health and healing context. Today in the town like Jhabua and other places in the same district, faked doctors regularly healing the Bhils and outdated medicines are being sold freely with no control. Every now and then media persons bring these to light and Government does symbolic gesture to control the vice with no serious interest and proper effect.

The Bhil Badwas (priests and medicine men) assert when the tribal patients are brought to them for indigenous healing and they say, ' if the patients suffer from genuine sickness or affected by some spiritual powers, they can help , but if made sick by doctors, taking faked medicines, then we are helpless to do any indigenous healing.' Due to the interferences in the tribal or indigenous systems or traditional knowledge, the traditional and beautiful skills are vanishing in indigenous India and expensive as well faked system is overtaking and being imposed by the non tribals since over three decades on the tribals which they hardy can afford except at the cost of their land, cattles, other wealth and savings.

Considering the positive aspects and traditions of Bhil healing, Mama Baleshwar Dayal appealed to Government of India in last century, for studying systematically the indigenous health system of the Bhils and to get it approved for their chealy available local healing. The Government of India did respond positively then, and made a study of some 241 herbs used by the Bhils for the medical healing where as there were over one thousand or more. The work was not satisfactorily complete and the files were closed.

Mama Baleshwar Dayal the renounced socialist leader of the country had vision to produce these indigenous herbal medicines in cheaper way, for the tribal India, so that the huge tribal funds spent by the poor Bhils would be saved for more creative purposes. His vision never saw the light up to today and no NGOs also paid any attention in Bhilanchal region, except for the expensive tribal projects, through which they can help themselves. A great damage is continuously being done by the non tribals to the tribal funds, health and the indigenous system. Besides there is no respect for the tribal cultures in India by the non tribals on the contrary the faked and expensive systems of allopathic is being imposed for impoverishing and looting the tribal money by the non tribal doctors. Is justice being done to the tribal/indigenous/Adivasi traditional human rights today.....?

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