kerokan: a javanese cure-all

This was a therapy given to me by a dukun (a javanese traditional healer) immediately after getting into a motorcycle accident. The dukun gave me a medium strength full body massage and then rubbed balsam (something like vapor rub) cajeput oil, and her own spit into a very badly bruised part of my leg. She then gave me this part of the treatment, called kerokan, which is done with the edge of a coin, and is believed to "Keluar angin", or take the wind out of the body that is believed to enter during a time of stress/shock. This "wind" can also cause such things as colds, cough, and other ailments. The scraping was also in a different pattern around my entire back, and didn't actually hurt at all. Luckily the accident wasn't too serious, and I didn't need to go to the hospital.