Medicinal wine or bath water, for preventing a relapse.
Bark, roots, and leaves from certain trees are mixed with
wine and then drunk by a woman after giving birth, so as
not to have a relapse, and to help her breast milk come in,
or by a menstruating woman in order to cause the
menstrual blood to all come out and relieve cramps.
Sometimes a piece of the placenta is grilled and eaten by
the new mother also, as pamegat. Certain leaves are also
mixed into boiled bath water that a new mother and baby
will use for their first bath, which is done nine days after
the delivery. Some of the types of trees (bark and/or
leaves) used are: tanglad, lagondi, kalampitaw, bonlaw,
sigang, kalibon. The new mother should eat all kinds of
different food during the nine days before bathing. If not,
she might become sick. For example, if she does not eat
toringan fish during the nine days, but then eats it after
bathing, she will have a relapse, begat. These various
foods are called padengan.
Manginema ta pamaegat agod india baegaten.
Drink some medicinal
wine so you won't have a relapse.
Ang babay ang nangana kaministiran ang mandigo
ta pamaegat agod indi baegaten.
A woman who has given birth must bathe in water
containing
medicinal
leaves so that she will not suffer
a relapse.