Back to the past, people born in 2544, the era of “Thai Love Thai”, currently Gen Z, children of Gen X-Y, whose environmental progress has almost disappeared from the past. Therefore, I would like to review some things that this generation has learned.
At that time… the Finance Minister came up with the idea of supporting “Thai Kitchen to the World Kitchen”, using ingredients from Thai kitchens to help farmers send them to sell on the world market and using Thai food to attract people from abroad to travel to Thailand… It seemed like it would be a hit.
They were determined to generate income that would sink their ears. In reality… “When it is sharpened, it becomes a bong.” Because such products are extremely expensive, compared to the cost of air container boxes or shipping by ship, the products will rot within 15 days.
Thai restaurants in America have adapted chili, lime, and papaya from South America, which are cheaper to buy than shipping from Thailand… On the European side, Germany and France also love Thai food, but Vietnam dominates the agricultural product market… Especially in the same tropical ASEAN region, their country has everything like ours… Why would they buy it?
This project is like faded ink. Gen Z doesn’t see it… Is it like this, my child?
However, “Thai food”… is not a thoughtless thing for the world. Recently, Cambridge-Oxford Web has named “Pad Thai” as the world’s food, coining the universal term “pad–thai”, comparable to the Italian “pizza”.
But it seems that Thai children these days… do not know their own food as well as Colonel Sanders’ KFC or Mr. Tanaka’s Fuji Japanese food, without knowing that herbal ingredients are a valuable medicine that is more valuable than imported medicine…
And I would like to tell “COVID” patients that the first thing to use to reduce inflammation and inhibit the growth of the virus is “Andrographis paniculata” before adding strong medicines “Favipiravir” and “Remdesivir”.
The person who created the legend of Thai herbs is… Phra Maha Khwanchai Akkhachayo, 46 years old, 35 years of monkhood, abbot of Wat Khiriwong (Wat Namtok), Bang Maphrao Subdistrict, Lang Suan District, Chumphon Province, who considers this book as a science of truth that can be touched… unlike the “Motel” line that is currently popular in the occult.
“I am the 6th generation to have this knowledge,” said Phra Maha Khwanchai.
“Generation 1: Luang Pu Phan Chanthasiri, an expert in magic spells during the reign of King Rama V, former abbot of Wat Banphot Wisai (Wat Nai Khao), Lang Suan District; Generation 2: Luang Pu Daeng, Wat Nai Khao; Generation 3: Luang Pu Lop, Wat Nai Khao.
…Generation 4: Luang Pu Jiam, former abbot of Wat Namtok, Luang Pu Phan’s top disciple; Generation 5: Luang Pu Krajang, Wat Namtok. This one studied Vipassana meditation and omniscient knowledge of bones and snake venom. Later, I passed on the knowledge from generation to generation for 35 years.”
Phra Maha Khwanchai added that Wat Namtok is located in a forest in the shape of a crescent moon, surrounded by 7 mountains, so there are tens of thousands of types of herbs, but only 400 types are used in the learning center to treat diseases. There have been tens of thousands of people from all over the country who have come to seek treatment from general public doctors and more than 3,000 Thai traditional medicine practitioners.
“I have received a certificate as a folk doctor, development of Thai traditional medicine and alternative medicine from the Ministry of Public Health. The herbal hospital is receiving more patients every day. As a traditional Thai doctor… simply put, a local wise man.”
Self-reliant wisdom treatment at Wat Namtok, for example, when suffering from chronic blisters, use 2 parts of fish oil from curry and 1 part of betel lime to get this type of wound ointment… People with bowel problems use 1 pineapple and 1 banana with 1 tablespoon of lime juice… it will help detoxify the body’s residual substances.
People who are concerned about “heart disease”… use 1 handful of pandan leaves and 1 handful of stems, boiled in 2 liters of water to treat it… If suffering from eye disease, use 2 handfuls of mulberry leaves, boiled in 2 liters of water until boiling, then squeeze 5 drops of lime juice, drink morning, noon, and evening until healed… This is a sample of some episodes from Wat Namtok, Chumphon Province.
Shift focus to… Nong Nung Pattaya Garden, Sattahip District, Chonburi Province, another place that is known as the creator of the first “herbal garden” in Thailand, following the ancient botanical garden of Padua, Italy, which was built in the year 1544…which is also known as the world’s first herbal garden.
Kampol Tansatcha, president of Nongnooch Pattaya Garden, said that the creation of the herbal garden was to allow the general public and students to use it as a source of learning about local herbal wisdom. It was designed to be simple and planted in pots with name tags. Since many species are short-lived herbaceous plants, they can be easily replaced with new ones…
There is also a grouping of herbal plants that can help treat symptoms of illnesses immediately.
Recently, Nongnooch Garden invited Phra Maha Khwanchai from Chumphon to be a speaker on “How to eat herbal food safely and free from disease” for 60 employees and the general public.
Phra Maha Khwanchai emphasized that in the past, Thais were not as sickly as today because they ate herbal food instead of medicine in their daily lives, creating the most benefits for their health. For example, stir-fried basil reduces fat in the liver and expels gas in the intestines…if it were local wisdom, it would be 5 red basil shoots, chewed and crushed, then followed by a glass of water.
This medicinal food menu…if eaten every morning, noon and evening, it will help eliminate viruses. In the liver as well.
Next, “Stir-fried ginger” reduces fever and expels gas. “Kaeng Pa” helps blood circulation… and “Stir-fried morning glory” nourishes eyesight, just like “Yam Tuen Gling”. As for “Som Tam”, it helps with bowel movements… “Nam Prik” or “Clear Soup” helps reduce acid reflux, but if the clear soup has coriander and celery root, it will nourish the heart.
Additionally, “Stir-fried river shrimp with cha-plu leaves” treats migraines… “Stir-fried water mimosa” reduces pain in joints and bones, “Stir-fried Mexican mustard greens” helps people with fragile bones. Look at this and eat… “Stir-fried mackerel with turmeric” has protein from fish and large red chili peppers that are antioxidants. Garlic eliminates fat in the blood. Turmeric fights cancer. Peanuts nourish the heart.
Krachai stimulates blood circulation. Koth Chula Lampha treats the circulatory system.
Therefore, we can conclude that… “Herbal food” is “medicine” that is valuable to the body. But unfortunately, children these days don’t know much about it as much as foreign food that is full of flour. And it may be too late… to call back this value from children who are growing up now.
“We have to start with the new generation of Thai children. Born to learn from parents who teach about food from the kitchen in the house. That’s how children are instilled with the habit and
This moment… Nong Nooch Garden is ready to be another magnet to attract Thai people to learn the value of Thai herbal food from the learning source “Kitchen Class” to further develop for Thai people and foreigners to know that… Thai food is a valuable “medicine” for life, as the teachings of the 6th generation of the great monks from Chumphon.