The final phase of a traditional treatment is taking place or is about to take place
Traditional Treatment is carried out in three phases:
Phase One: The sick person makes use of four medications ordained by an ordained Traditional Doctor and commissioned to cure. The medications are: mbgweli, eso, wosongi and moteya.
Phase Two: Actual treatment commences if the patient responses well to Phase One of the treatment.
Phase Three: known as “luuwa” takes place when the sick person has fully recovered.
A patient who is satisfied with the results of Phases One and Two of a treatment decides to undergo or not to undergo the final phase (Phase Three) of the treatment.
It is when a Doctor is about to commence or has already started final treatment that it is said “luuwa la fimba”.
Lexicon:
Luuwa = Final phase of a traditional treatment that is expected to terminate completely an illness and give a new lease of life to a patient. One phase of a “luuwa” is the consumption by the sick person of a special meal called “Ito-to” prepared by a Traditional Doctor.
“Ito-to” is composed of bits/slices of staple food - fish, meat, vegetable, plantains, palm oil, water, tubers, such as coco-yams, salt pepper, mushroom.
The traditional Doctor boils the “itoto” in a clay pot and feeds the patient with a bit of the
“Ito-to.” In the course of consuming the ‘itoto” the patient and the Doctor throw particles of the food outside the house.
“itoto” immunes a patient against possible infection that may be contained in any staple food that the patient may eat in future.
mbgweli = a medication powder to be licked.
eso = a liquid medication to be drank after the medication has been submerged for about an hour in rain water, in fresh palm wine or in liquid extracted from the stem of a plant called monda-ndo-wani.
moteya = a massage medication.
wosongi = medication administered in the form of enema.
“Luu-wa la fimba”.
Literally:
(a). An expression of joy and satisfaction in that at long last the plight (pains, oppression, prosecution, extortion) that we are living with is coming to an end or will come to an end soon.
(b) The devastating blow against the enemy/adversary/the monster/the witch is now being launched or is about to be launched.
Oma Nanu
Imba Thomas Mbua Ndoko
Chicago ILL, USA
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