Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 2:01 p.m.
The reporter reported that Tan villagers in Na Wah Subdistrict, Na Wah District, Nakhon Phanom Province, which almost every household will work in the most unusual occupations according to the season. And is considered the only one in Thailand By the occupation mentioned above, some people may hear goosebumps. Including the profession of making geckos, leeches and dried earthworms Send foreign sales such as China, Taiwan, with the belief that cooking is a tonic. Which has orders for one year totaling more than 100 tons
There are 3 seasons in Thailand for one year, this village will also have exotic products processed in every season, namely the dry season, the geckos are slaughtered and dried. The rainy season will be dried leeches As for the winter, it will be the dry worms queue. With middlemen to buy stock for sale This is a job creation, generating income, circulating money spread over 100 million baht per year. During the winter from November to February, more than 200 villagers will begin processing the earthworms and drying them. Originally, villagers would go out to dig earthworms in farmland. Including buying from the villagers to sell
As a result of the COVID outbreak since the beginning of 2020, exports of geckos, leeches, and floating earthworms have been affected, resulting in lower income. But recently began to relax some of the iron rules, allowing for export and sales Therefore, the villagers who have abstained from farming and farming will turn to a different career. By winter, they process dry earthworms
Mrs. Noppamas Wongsa Nao or Ee, 38 years old, house number 141 Moo 8, Soi Don Du Ban Tan, Na Wa Subdistrict, revealed to reporters that Tan villagers have a strange career in the season. It has been passed down for more than 30 years after a group of villagers contacted Chinese and Taiwanese merchants to supply earthworms, leeches, processed geckos, and seasonal sales. With both villagers going out to buy And processed by yourself Including being a broker to buy fresh earthworms to sell to the villagers to arrange processing There are two types of earthworms being processed today: 1. The red body is thick and 2. The green body is thinner than the red. Buy fresh for 28 baht per kilogram. 100 kilograms of fresh earthworms after processing is dried, the remaining 8-9 kilograms are sent for sale at a price of 500 baht per kilogram. The rainy season will be purchased from Laos. But the body is smaller and thinner than the first 2 types
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Ms. Ae continued that it would be passed through the process of privatization. That have been inherited By dissecting the soil out Then soaked and washed with Padauk bark water thoroughly Before drying in the sun By processing earthworms, they must be done in the middle of the night. In order to catch the sun in the morning In the afternoon, can collect, send and sell This year, China orders 20 tons of orders. “The villagers earn tens of thousands of baht per month. Some diligent families make hundreds of thousands a month. If you get ingredients made before the season Can make more money every year
For wholesale price, selling the middleman Dried earthworms Price per kilogram of 450-500 baht each year. Processed geckos are priced according to the size of approximately 40-50 baht per piece, while the dried leeches are 2,000 baht per kilogram each year to have turnover income from occupation Strange, not less than 100 million baht. Families with these strange occupations So they can make money 40,000 – 50,000 baht per month, which after the COVID crisis. Some strange occupations carry the burden of debt. Need to find another job to compensate for the relief for the time being
The reporter further reported that earthworms or earthworms, or earthworms, or Tao Leng Di Leng (China – Chaozhou) has clear evidence that Using earthworms as that herb Has begun since the year 1833, or more than 700 years ago, ancient doctors in India and Burma. Have used earthworms to treat many diseases For example, Burmese people use earthworms to heal a disease whose name in Burmese is Yeze Kun Piao. Which has symptoms likely to be purulent By bringing the earthworms to be baked in a sealed clay pot Until dry to ash Use these ashes to use as toothpaste. Or mixed with tamarind seeds And the pieces have already been roasted To make it taste better and then take it to eat
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For another type of disease called Menma Mevanoyikuntawak, women who suffer from the disease experience exhaustion after giving birth and may not be able to breastfeed. Then bring the earthworms to boil in water with salt and onions until cooked. Then pour clear water into the patient’s food
And from documents written by farangs about local food in Thailand Obtained from insects and other invertebrates Published in England in 2475 with the message that In Burma and Laos Earthworms have been used to treat smallpox by taking earthworms to soak in water and then giving sick people to bathe in water. Then the earthworms are roasted and ground until they form a powder mixed with coconut water and drink. This recipe helps to speed up the vaccine. And reduce the mortality rate from disease down to only 1 in 4
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Parts in Iran Even praising earthworms as a universal type of herb Because they can heal various diseases such as baking and eating with bread To help reduce the size of gallstones in the gallbladder And help drive out the stones Or have already dried Eat to treat the pale yellow symptoms caused by jaundice. It may also be baked to ash. Then mixed with rose oil and applied to bald head So that the hair grows as old as before
For in Thailand It has been used as an herb for a long time. Until it appears in many books of traditional medicine As shown in “Traditional Pharmacy Textbook” published by the School of Traditional Medicine, Wat Phra Chetuphon, in 1964, said: Solve the heat in thirst Restrain heat, cure stomatitis, throat abscess, salivary gland inflammation, cure abscess and cephalalgia Resolve diseases caused by bone, cure smallpox poisoning “
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