Disease in TAGALOG
karamdaman | mga karamdaman
pasma
sakit | magkakasakit | hindi nagkakasakit 


Similar phrases in dictionary English Tagalog. (12) 
acute disease | malalang karamdaman, malubhang sakit 
black lung disease | sakit ng mga minero 
centers for disease control and prevention | mga sentro sa pagpigil at paghadlang ng karamdaman 
chronic disease | kronikong karamdaman 
chronic renal disease | matagal ng karamdaman ng bato 
contagious disease | peste


Phoebe A Dauz-Williams & Arthur R. Williams. Individual Family and COmmunity.

Subanun (Frake 1961)
four diagnostic criteria
wound - burn - intestinal worm - skin worm - exposure to sickness
ATTRIBUTES:
DEPTH (shallow-deep; external-internal) [utilizes the common external reference points of the HEAD, CHEST, XIPHOID, SIDE, WAIST, ABDOMEN; common internal body parts names are LIVER and SPLEEN)
DISTALITY (distal-proximal)
SEVERITY (mild-severe)
SPREAD (single-multiple)

Ivatans of Batanes (Recio 1973:75)
SEVEN CAUSES OF ILLNESS: (a) devils, (b) being outstripped by another in accomplishment and wealth, (c) dead relatives, (d) another person, usually an adult, (e) accidents, (f) self, namely, lapses in practices, e.g., wearing sweat-dried clothes, bathing indisciminately, exposure; and (g) "krobio" from infected others

Guinhangdans of Leyte (Nurge, 1958)
illness is believed to be caused either by natural or supernatural causes.
Natural include indigestible food, sudden changes in temperature, strong wind and vagrant breezes, and the vapor that arises from the ground when the sun comes out after a prolonged rain.
Supernatural causes include spirit-gods, earth beings, river and ocean spirits, and tree spirits, witches, and sorcerers.
Prevention of illness consists of (a) obeying the cultural mores, both as the relate to interaction with the supernatural and with other humans (b) avoidance of the habitat of the supernaturals, and (c) quiet conciliatory behavior toward sorcerers who can't be avoided.
Most common form of treatment includes rubbing and massaging, ritual annointment with coconut oil accompanied by prayers, dry and wet pultices, and herbal additions to the drinking or bath water. Dried roots and leaves and scraping of branches are usually added to oil. Sucking and manual extractions are apparently not practice, nor are pills and injections used. Five types of local healers are consulted depending on the type of illness diagnosed.