Bosnian Franciscans and the Monasteries in Kresevo and Fojnica as Source of Scientific Bibliography

Abstract

All of these centuries-old records contain enormous treasures, and the modern medicine is increasingly searching for the sources of natural remedies. The Franciscans should be credited for carefully collecting the methods folk treatment and passed them on to future generations. In the words of Br. Marko Karamatić: "The fact that the Friars were engaged in healthcare, that they became the first graduate doctors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that they wrote" herbal manuals " and other medical records, is the result of historical opportunities in these areas, and this activity became one of the most important tasks for the Franciscans. They performed their duties regardless of the circumstances.

The Role and Characteristics of Collections of Folk Recepies in the Folk and Traditional Medicine of Bosnia and Herzegovina

“…When a folk doctor comes to the end of its life, and find a personit sees to have a sense for healing, it starts transferring his knowledge and transmitting his experiences ( 1 - 10 ). Those carefully selected people were usually from the narrower or wider family of the healer ( 11 - 25 ).…”

“…Those carefully selected people were usually from the narrower or wider family of the healer ( 11 - 25 ). It is interesting that „healing” can perform only women „when they say goodbye to everything”, or after menopause, because, according to popular beliefs, only “pure” women can mediate between diseased people and, on the one hand, and the demons of the disease which needed to be expelled from the sick, or the saints who are expected to help with the expelling of the disease ( 1 , 2 ).…”

“…Native medicine, Traditional medicine, Complementary medicine ( 1 , 17 , 18 ) has been quite focused on preventive measures that often made a combination of behavior manners, herbs or some other medicine, especially decrebied in the books of “Traditional medicine”, “Prophet medicine”, “Arabic medicine”, etc. described in Greek and Arabic books, translated during Ottomans period in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 26 - 42 ) and from and the pronouncement of magical formulas or prayers.…”

“…Among the Orthodox and the Muslims was used various “tilsumi” (talisman) and “masala” (old money, buttons, wolf’s tooth, rabbit tails, multicolored yarn sticks, etc. ), and among Catholics there were mostly old coins, crosses and medals with the figures of saints, but all for the same purpose–protection against spells ( 1 - 5 ).…”

“…In the case of a spells in the treatment of certain diseases, there were exactly certain procedures how to treat. There are no scientific evidence of their efficacy in many ways of treatment except for suggestive action on an individual ( 1 ).…”