A Mother's Cure for her Son's Diptheria

After the Japanese occupation life was tough in Sarawak.  It took the Foochows many years to recover from the ravages of war. Families were displaced, many husbands and wives were separated and even children were given away . There were people who had to start all over again.

While the rubber and pepper prices started to recover and the colonial government trying its utter best to help in controlling exports and imports , the farmers also strugged to produce more food and the fishermen tried their best to fish. Generally it was a slow recovery from the war. Besides diseases were spreading like polio, diptheria, TB and malaria.

There was one case of how a desperate aunt who saved her son’s life . The boy was having fever from diphtheria and  she could not get any transport to go to the Lau king Howe hospital from nang Chong. 

She made a final. attempt to cure her son, so she decided to smear the throat of her  feverish son with pang ngi cheong, ground small crab sauce, remembering the old adage to use poison to rid of another poison. 






Indeed the sauce cured him and he was saved . She thanked God for giving her the wisdom and discernment