Local name | Perceived cause | Symptoms | Diarrhoea-specific perceptions | Preventive practices and beliefs | Treatment preferences | ||
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Colour | Texture | Quantity | |||||
"Hot milk” | Hot | - Diarrhoea | White or yellow | Pasty | Abundant | - Avoid breastfeeding in/after sun exposure | - “Cold” herbs |
- Fever | - Rubbings | ||||||
- Vomits | |||||||
“Cold milk”a | Cold | - Diarrhoea | Green | Mucous | Irregular | - Avoid breastfeeding in/after sun exposure | - “Hot” herbs |
- Vomits | - Consumption of hot beverages | - Rubbings | |||||
“Hidden heat” | Hot and Cold | - Diarrhoea | - | - | - | - | - “Hot” herbs/“Cold” herbs |
- Vomits | |||||||
“Dull milk” | Personal diet | - Abdominal pains | - | - | - | - Back slapping | - Back slapping |
- Constipation | - Stomach cleaning | - Stomach cleaning | |||||
- Foaming stools | |||||||
“Choleric milk” | Emotional status | - Diarrhoea | Yellow | Pasty | Abundant | - Avoid negative thoughts | - “Cold” herbs |
- Vomits | - Rubbings | ||||||
- Anti-choleric | |||||||
“Spoiled milk” | New pregnancy | - Diarrhoea | Yellow or green | Liquid | - | - | - breastfeeding cessation |
- Vomits |