A neighbor's son had low fever for three days that did not go away with fever medicine and antibiotic. The doctor took a blood sample and it was not Denggi fever. The mother made him drink Chinese herbal tea everyday. On the third day there were skin rashes. The general practitioner did not diagnose it. It could be possibly be Ruebella or measle.
By the rule of folk medicine, the worried mum is going to buy parsley and boil it in water. When the resultant brew cools sufficiently, the son will use the parsley to brush against his arms, legs and body. Should his problem be measle, it would break out in earnest.
But supposing it is Denggi fever, then our knowledgeable mom would harvest papaya leaves, throw away the branch and veins; grind the leaves to collect the bitter sap. A Denggi patient with dangerously low blood platelets who take this sap will have a good chance to recover and not die of internal bleeding.
To a non-Asian, the above would sound like Voodoo, but these are tested remedies for hundreds of years in this part of the world.
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