Did you notice when your newly-born baby’s cord was cut by the doctor ?  If  so, I let you know that the cut still stuck on the body has proved to be a healing stuff.  Javanese people since a long time ago have practiced this method of healing to their baby when they suffer from such symptoms as high temperature, fever, and some unknown illness.

Myth?

Parinah, a Javanese mother, aged 75 years,  now still keeps all their children’s cord in a tiny box. One day  a daughter of hers suffered from serious fever.  Being not able to afford any money to take her to a doctor, she used her cut cord to heal. First, she put the cord in the warm water for a few minutes, than she let her daughter drink the water. The effect was fascinating.

She got better and at last managed to escape the long -lasting fever. That kind of practice was handed down from one generation to another, that her daughter, who is now my wife, has done the same thing.  You may believe it or not, but this is an undeniable fact. We may wonder why that cut was not rotten and, thus, can be used repeatedly, perhaps all our living time.

Medical Truth

Today, along with the advance of modern tecnology in medical science, scientists have made a great progress in the method of treating various kinds of diseases with umbilical cord blood. It is believed that stem cell can be transplanted , and the haematopoietic migrate to the bone marrow and produce new blood cells, boosting the immune system in the human body.

The first umbilical cord blood was reportedly performed in France in 1988, which successfully treated a boy with Fanconi’s anaemia.

That’s why, health investments are today worth doing, especially by the family with expectation of high quality of life. Banking for cord blood is the answer.  Advantages of storing umbilical cord blood stem cells, among other,  are :

1. A guaranteed match for autologous transplants  (where the donor and recipient are the same)
2. A readily available supply of stored haematopoietic stem cells.
3. Ease of collection, which is pain-free and risk-free to both mother and child.

To join this bank certainly takes a great deal of fund, depending on the contarct both side agree. AABB (American Association of Blood Banks) is one of the the world’s most recognized standards for cord blood banking. It is an international non-profit body dedicated to developing the highest standards in cord banking blood. So, Why not starting from now? The sooner the better.

Conclusion

You might think it’s illogical and doesn’t make sense to see what Javanese mothers did with the cut cord of their baby. They just conserved habbit that their ancestors did. In fact, what’s considered myth often comes before the modern science. And those two are co-related to each other.

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