Traditional Malay midwifery practices for body treatment (Param) and forehead treatment (Pilis) in Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang and Johor of Malaysia

• Main Authors: Othman, Rashidi, Ramya, Razanah, Ishak, Nooriszai
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: GE Environmental Sciences; QH Natural history; QK Botany; RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology; SB Plant culture
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/37963/3/Traditional_Malay_midwifery_practices_for_body.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/37963/; http://www.natpro5.psu.ac.th/download/Final%20Full%20Proceeding%20Natpro5.pdf

Midwifery is the practice of assisting a woman through childbirth using natural procedures with limited access to biomedicine. However, today in Malay community, midwifery continues to play an important role in both traditional and modern cultural settings that involved with providing health care...