Maung Yan Nwe - If you know how to eat, you will be in trouble if you don't know how to take medicine.

Aging problem

King Milinda asked the venerable Nagasin, "Venerable sir... can you prevent old age?"

To this question, the arahant Nagasin replied as follows.

" Your Majesty... it is possible to prevent the aging process," he replied.

Milinda Pancha - Pali

Especially for people with high blood pressure, dried shrimp and salty fish paste, and sweet fish paste should be avoided. If you can't avoid it, you should be extremely careful.

If you eat too much, you will die from malnutrition, and there will be many more in the future.

Keep your memory alive.

There is a saying in Myanmar that “Protect your life, protect your wealth and fortune.” The meaning of this saying is that if every human being can analyze and eat foods that are suitable for their physical characteristics and those that are not, they will live a long and healthy life.

Therefore, if we follow the advice of the ancient Burmese greats to “guard our lives,” we will surely become a healthy and long-lived human being. Only a long-lived and healthy human being can seek wealth and benefit the country.

Good luck. Live long.

If we were to write about the past, we would have to go back to 1945-46.

At that time, Maung Yin Nwe and Maung Kyaw Thar from Myawaddy Magazine attended the first-ever journalism training course (diploma) organized by the Myanmar Writers' Association and the Literary House.

The great teachers who taught journalism at that time were

1. Master Zeya

2. Teacher Maung Htin

3. Master U Htin Gyi

4. Master Oh Wai Oo Nyo Mya

5. I only remember U Thant (Secretary-General of the United Nations). The rest of the teachers

I don't remember.

The teachers' lectures on journalism are remarkable, enjoyable, and fun. Teacher U Nyo Mya has a journalism degree from the United States, and his lectures are remarkable.

At first, we didn't understand the teachings of U Thant, who taught journalism from Western countries in English, but we came to understand his simple English. We came to understand the world of Western journalism.

During the Myanmar Socialist Program Party era, I became the editor of Moe Dee Newspaper, and U Kyi Nyunt (Chit Kyi Re) became the editor of Myanmar Alin Newspaper.

At that time, I continuously wrote articles in the Path News, Sang Na, Kyay Mon, Myanma Alin Newspaper, Labor Newspaper, and Botahtaung Newspaper.

At that time, I wrote exclusively about the medicinal properties of the Nwe-Myaek tree.

At that time, the Myanmar military held a press conference.

Powerful spice

At the press conference, it was reported that a Tatmadaw column had engaged in a battle with the insurgents while on patrol. A sergeant from their side had been missing in the battle. The missing sergeant had been shot in the thigh during the battle. The sergeant had rolled down a hill and taken cover in a bush. The insurgents and his troops had retreated, leaving the sergeant badly wounded. Before the rains had set, a Shan farmer had arrived. The sergeant had come out of the bush and told the Shan chieftain about the incident. The Shan chieftain had picked wild yam leaves from the forest, washed them with water, and applied a solution to the sergeant's gunshot wound in the thigh, and bandaged it. The next day, the Shan chieftain had sent him rice packets and a bottle of hot water, and he had washed the wound with hot water and crushed the yam leaves, applied the solution to the wound, and bandaged it again.

In fact, if the wound had been treated with modern medicine for so long, the patient would have had to have his leg amputated, or he could have died from gunshot wounds. Now, thanks to traditional medicine using the leaves of the seraph, the sergeant's wound has healed.

The press conference also included the statement that the Tatmadaw column returned to the area about a week later and brought back the wounded sergeant and the Shan mountain chief. When they arrived at the battalion, they helped the gunshot-injured sergeant and honored the Shan mountain chief who had treated him.

I wrote about these things in the Myanmar Light newspaper, "I am a good cook and have a life."

I was very familiar with the papaya tree even then.

Now, as the popularity of the herb has increased, people who do not understand the time limit are drinking it as they please, and are suffering from side effects and ending up in the hospital.

There is a saying in traditional medicine that every herb has medicinal properties.

The Zinatha Pakathani is a famous book in Burmese literature. It is also included in the list of classics. In that book, the great monk Kyathe Laydat Sayadaw said the following about the grass and trees.

“Jivaka, take a stick and spend four days searching for a tree that does not contain any medicinal properties,” the teacher instructed.

Four days later -

"There is no tree that cannot be used as medicine."

He said to the teacher -

"I have learned medicine," he said.