Table 4 The use of goat and sheep skin
Animal | Disease category | Description | URs (Informants) |
|---|---|---|---|
Sheep | Musculoskeletal | It is used for all types of Musculoskeletal problems due to falling from high place, get strong hits during fights etc. | 45 (45) |
Sheep | Musculoskeletal | Women wear it after childbirth as it finishes the pain and heal the internal injuries and wounds. | 40 (40) |
Sheep | Hepatic | When the yellowness of the skin gets high then the skin of sheep is used, or it is used to remove the remaining symptoms of hepatitis when the patient gets recently recovered. | 21 (21) |
Goat | Fever | At the start of malaria, but not after getting 2–3 days old as then it may convert it to typhoid and get complicated. | 18 (18) |
Sheep | Multisystem | Typhoid but not at the start of it, either towards its end or after it get finished then to finish its affects in the body. | 11 (11) |
Goat (in summer), Sheep (in winter) | Musculoskeletal | Against general pain in the body or bones which is not getting better since long time. | 10 (10) |
Goat | Fever | Used against fever at its beginning stage. | 9 (9) |
Goat (in summer), Sheep (in winter) | Fever | Against fever when it gets complicated or when it does not finish with normal medication, or when body temperature gets very high or reach to head, or to finish hidden fever. | 8 (8) |
Goat | Multisystem | In summer, it is used against sunstroke. | 7 (7) |
Goat | Multisystem | Used for body cooling when feel extensive hotness inside the body. | 6 (6) |
Goat (in summer), Sheep (in winter) | Multisystem | General body ailments, i.e., to get the weak person’s body stronger, increase resistance against diseases, finish the symptoms of disease. | 4 (4) |
Goat (in summer), Sheep (in winter) | Ritual | Black colored skin is to be worn in case of some unusual diseases, e.g. caused by spirits (Jinn). | 3 (3) |
Goat (in summer), Sheep (in winter) | Dermatological | When bitten by a large number of honeybees (usually honeybees’ bites in summer). | 3 (3) |
Goat | Gastrointestinal | Against acute diarrhea. | 2 (2) |
Goat (in summer), Sheep (in winter) | Dermatological | Against acute skin allergy. | 2 (2) |
Goat (in summer), Sheep (in winter) | Urinogenital | When menstruation gets abnormal. | 2 (2) |