Coining: An Indonesian Habit

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Coining is an Indonesian habit. When you feel out of sorts, then you use a clean coin to scrape your back and make red marks all over your back with it after applying a bit of balm first on the part of the skin that's gonna be scraped. So once your back's coined, there'll be lots of diagonal red marks. You scrape your back from the middle part diagonally down to the right or the left. When your belly's especially gassy and then you can't let it out by farting, you'll suffer, right? Coining is GOOD in helping you fart. Once you're coined, you'll feel hot all over your back and then you'll either start to barf or fart. Some people think it's cruel, but for me, I'm addicted to coining whenever I feel out of sorts. What do you think of this? Is there any special "weird traditional" remedy for any sickness that you know?