Sri Lanka, July 5 -- The 2015 SAARC Cultural Centre publication titled Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions of South Asia, where a key focus is on traditional knowledge as related to health and wellbeing, included writings pertaining to Sri Lanka. The excerpts and quotes are used in the article on permission from the Director of the SAARC Cultural Centre.

One of my neighbours told me that a close relative had been hospitalised with suspected kidney stones. However, when the operation was in progress, they found no kidney stones although the X-ray had shown one stone like reflection.

The patient was in misery, because a complicated apparatus had been pushed down his throat to reach inside his body to check if there ...