The Study Of Home Remedy (Beliefs And Behaviors) Related To Mother And Infant Among Sistani People Living In Hosseinabad Village Of Bandarzag In Golestan Province

Golestan province is very rich in home remedies due to its geographical location. The people of Sistan, who live in this province, have a long history of using home remedies. The aim of this study was to explore the common home remedies for mother and infatnthealth problems among people with Sistani' ethnicity living in Hussein Abad village, Bandar-Gaz city in Golestan province (birth if Iran).

This is a medical ethnography study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 48 local healers, midwives, and those who had a home remedy experience and were selected by snowball method sampling. The documents and observations (doing home remedies) were also used as a source of information. Interviews, were transcribed, coded and classified and described.

The agitation and crying in infants and also edema of umbilicus were treated with cat's hair and Kohl (Sormeh). To treat the perinal wound, dried seeds of pomegranate were prescribed for vaginal washing. For preventing of lowback pain in parturient the TASSI a combination of "KAMR pill, parsley, fennel, dill, flour and turmeric" were given for ten days. To reduce breast congestion, they burn oil in the fire to smoke on the breast. Home remedies were very diverse, some of them neutral, some helpful and some have been harmful.

Home remedy is based on beliefs of an ethnicity group regard health and disease and can be passed on from generation to generation. Sometimes these practices can help or hurt people. Good health beliefs and behaviors should be strengthened, and in other ways, it must be prevent the development of false and harmful health beliefs.