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Table talk:

“Ho’okahi ‘ohana, nui na makana - One family, many gifts…

What is already in front of you? for some Hawaiian families this is normal

Table Talk

What’s in your Library?

Table Talk

Pa’akai

Salt in Everyday Life and Practice…

Healing Practices

Vocabulary Focus Word: Pa’akai

Salt

Traditionally used in food preparation, preservation, cleansing, ceremony, and other cultural practices.

He Kai pa’a i ke’ano ola.

The sea made solid for life.

Salt carries more than one purpose. Explore Hawaiian cultural practices on how salt and salt water have been used in practice of cleansing, care, and ceremony.

Where does salt come from? How did our family use it? Two sides of cleansing: physical and spiritual. This is family recognizing that practice and meanings belong within the family.

Some of the uses in our family and daily life..

• Gargling with warm salt water for the throat.

• Cleaning

• Preserving Fish and Meat

• Preparing and seasoning food

• Cultural and ceremonial practices…

Table Talk

Think again when you have a headache and waiting on Tylenol to work. You just became the full intervention:

“Here is what actually happened in our family when somebody said they had a headache.”

Someone had a water hose to the head, lomilomi to “move the pain out,”…

Six specialists all before the nurse stepped in Mommy!

“Drink this.”

“No, rub this here.”

“you need steam.”

“its your energy.”

“you didn’t eat enough.”

“go outside.”

“pray first.”

“who gave you that headache.”