Traditional salves and western methods

The International Herald Tribune offers a few sobbering figures concerning mental health in a nation of 12 million traumatized people.

A study of Cambodian refugees in the United States, published last August in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that 62 percent had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder in the past year, compared with a rate in the general American population of 3.6 percent.

Most have turned to faith healers and herbalists, as there is only 26 Cambodian psychiatrists who practice today (10 of whom have been educated abroad).

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