Fever is a frequent ailment, and several medicines are employed against it.  The most common is to crush the leaves of the dangla (Vitex negundo L.) in vinegar made from basi, and to add to this a fourth part of urine.  The patient drinks a shell cup of the liquor, is washed in cold water, and then is briskly rubbed with fine salt.  Young banana leaves are applied to the flesh, and over these blankets are placed.  This is repeated twice daily until the fever is broken.  Wild tomato leaves, pounded and applied to the abdomen, are also considered valuable in causing the patient to sweat.  If the trouble is unusually severe, a hot bath is prepared by boiling the leaves of the lemon, atis (Anona squamosa L.), and toltolang (?) trees in water.  After the patient has been bathed in this, he is wrapped in blankets.  The same remedy is used to cure fits.

Snake bite is treated by chewing the bark of the alonen (Streblus asper Lour.), or kasabong (Argemone mexicana L.), or the root of the talabatab (Capparis micracantha D.C.), all of which cause vomiting.

The fruit of the soloyot (Corchorus olitorius L.), when baked and ground to a powder, likewise produces vomiting, and is used for any kind of poisoning.

To relieve the itch, the juice of the kabatiti (Luffa acutangula Roxb.), Bayabas (Psidium guajava L.) or lew-lew (Ficus haulili Blanco) is mixed with vinegar and soot, and is applied to the skin.  The milky exudation of the kalinbwaya (Euphorbia neruefolia L.) is also placed on the affected parts.

During the rainy season the people are greatly troubled with small blisters which form between the toes and quickly break down, leaving open sores.  To “harden” the feet, they hold them over burning straw.

Certain other aids against disease are also employed.  Cracked feet are treated with carabao dung; the nest of a small cave bird (nido) is crushed in water, and is drunk as a cure for coughs; while the flesh of the shell fish (kool) is applied to boils.  A further cure for the itch is made by pounding a coconut shell into a fine powder.  This is placed in a jar, over a hot fire, and a piece of iron is laid over the top.  The “sweat” which collects on the iron is said to give instant relief.

An infected ("bad”) finger or limb is tightly bound “to keep the sickness from going up.”

Use of Betel-Nut, Tobacco, and Stimulants.—­A study of the tales and ceremonies makes it evident that the betel-nut (bwa) was at one time extensively used.  To-day it occupies an exceedingly important place in the religious rites, but is seldom chewed.  When it is offered to the spirits, it is still prepared in the way that is universal throughout Malaysia.  The nut of the areca palm (Areca catechu L.) is split into four pieces, fresh lime is spread on