Plenty Guyanese and some Trinis refer to an ailment known as Narr-ah characterized by pain around navel and fixed by a belly rub or back crack.
What is the medical term for this?
Usually caused by over exertion while lifting.
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Doctors - weigh in, Nara illness
2018-04-08 08:59:58
2018-04-08 12:49:26
In reply to DirtyDan
Usually caused by over exertion while lifting
Doesn't that lead to goady?
2018-04-08 12:54:20
In reply to DirtyDan
I don't think Guyanese really know what narrah is. Any pain in the abdominal area is considered narrah. 
2018-04-08 13:11:29
In reply to black
That's why dem boys go to med school. They can give it name.
Now some old aunty can fix the problem with a belly rub with coconut oil.
2018-04-08 13:22:15
In reply to DirtyDan
I am not a doctor, but wouldn't that be considered a hernia? 
2018-04-08 13:44:54
In reply to DirtyDan
Where I from only a good Pundit cuh fix Nara and Maljo!! And all races and religions seek out the Trini pundit!!
2018-04-08 13:45:54
In reply to StumpCam
Nah Nara does go with prayers and belly rub,hernia need to be treated medically.. 
2018-04-08 13:53:05
In reply to bravos
Wait wait Bravs, yuh believing in God now? 
2018-04-08 13:54:27
In reply to Kay
Doesn't that lead to goady?
No.
Gody, means to lift. The term is used mainly to reference babies- "Baby need Gody"- means lift the baby
But of you lift an heavy object- yes you can get what is called Nara in Eastern UP and in Bihar- the Bjopuri region of India
2018-04-08 14:36:15
In reply to bravos
Nah Nara does go with prayers and belly rub,hernia need to be treated medically.. smile
It seems like it's part of the intestines that go out of place and rubbed back into place - symptoms are bellyache and vomiting
the question is, why only people in Guyana and Trinidad catch this?
2018-04-08 14:37:15
In reply to StumpCam
somebody suggested a while back it's an umbilical hernia, but dem doctors on yah haven't weighed in
2018-04-08 14:42:14
In reply to DirtyDan
the question is, why only people in Guyana and Trinidad catch this?
We mussi too chookal and limbeseh...
2018-04-08 14:43:49
In reply to Emir
The pundit always says nice things,seems so divine!!
Just make sure and put something in the clay jar on your way out,deeper colours with more and more zeros preferably !! 
2018-04-08 15:23:01
This term might not be unknown in JA. I recall my paternal great-grand uncle who was Indian (born 190saying "mi narrah a hat mi (hurt me)" to describe belly pain.
2018-04-08 15:34:34
In reply to DirtyDan
Ah used to fake dis so my grandma would give me a great massage when I was 8 years old.
When finished I had more coconut oil on me than our farm of Coconut trees in Cedros.
2018-04-08 20:06:02
In reply to CWWeekes
the other thing is, how come it targets mostly the descendants from Calcutta and their hybrids??
2018-04-08 20:07:31
In reply to sgtdjones
my grandma would give me a great massage when I was 8 years old
the issue is when they call in the non-relatives to do it and they up near your privates rubbing away
2018-04-08 21:24:52
These days it is becoming increasingly difficult to find people with the skill to rub nara (the Hindi word for the condition which arises from lifting too heavy an object or performing too strenuous physical activity which results in belly pain and diarrhoea) or to “crack” sprained backs and joints. These two traditional healing skills are only part of the set of traditional healing skills that the indentured labourers brought with them from India. Amazingly, today, some of the younger generation descendants of these indentured labourers are unaware of them.
There was a time when chiropractors did not exist and spinal and joint manipulation for the relief of sprained and dislocated backs and joints were the exclusive domain of the traditional masseurs and those skilled in “cracking” backs. It is interesting to note that many of the techniques used by chiropractors today are identical with those used by the traditional healers. One wonders why we do not train and license a class of these traditional masseurs. Clearly, there are the usual culprits, the vested interest, almost invariably the established big business interest; medical education/training and licensing bodies and institutions and third world apathy.
Traditional Healing Practices
2018-04-08 21:25:28
"Naara" is one thing; "gul naara" is another!
2018-04-08 21:31:04
In reply to DirtyDan
The tradition of massaging babies with oil and stretching their joints and rubbing the bones of the lower legs to eradicate bandy legs is now virtually abandoned by young Hindu mothers as being a messy “primitive” practice.
Of course now that the western medical literature is starting to accept and propound the therapeutic and beneficial values of it, the tradition is suddenly seen as valuable and good. The baby massages not only foster the bond between mother and child but help in the physical development of the child.
Of course now that the western medical literature is starting to accept and propound the therapeutic and beneficial values of it, the tradition is suddenly seen as valuable and good. The baby massages not only foster the bond between mother and child but help in the physical development of the child.
I remember seeing my younger siblings getting such.
2018-04-08 21:35:35
I found it - it's called Shifting Navel
Yoga peeps know about it
2018-04-08 21:43:20
In reply to Norm
Naara" is one thing; "gul naara" is another!
explain yourself - what's gul naara?
2018-04-08 21:52:05
In reply to DirtyDan
Also, contrary to some self proclaimed Miyaji here, Goadee actually exists in Guyana and Trini.
Sheer False News here!
You could call a jerk (like some here) as "a real anti man or goadee man."
A Goadee is when you have big balls area like after a hernia or elephantiasis.
I saw a text book picture showing a man fetching his goadee in a wheel barrow.
The Hindi word "goad" means lap. Like in Hindi movies you might have heard "maa ki goad" or come to "mother's lap". This has nothing to do with goadee.
2018-04-08 22:04:03
In reply to goofballs
goadees do exist - it's a hernia, cross culture and all
... yes popular word usage when hard work is involved - "yuh go get goady helping dat man move out"
2018-04-08 22:06:26
Here is one of the fixes for Nara
it's translated, but the exercises are shown
2018-04-08 22:07:14
In reply to DirtyDan
lovesickness 
2018-04-08 22:10:57
In reply to Runs
no quick cure for that
2018-04-08 22:31:19
In reply to DirtyDan
yes popular word usage when hard work is involved - "yuh go get goady helping dat man move out"
Or, "you want fi give man goadee or wah"
2018-04-09 00:07:46
Gul naara is a particularly bad case of naara.
2018-04-09 10:52:22
I am all for alternative medicine but rubbing nara was a placebo cure. Stupid diagnosis. Torture and led to fatalities in cases of appendicitis...knew of a case where it caused a rupture and death.
2018-04-09 11:00:11
Gul Naara happens when you don't lock yuh batty and puff yuh jaw when lifting heavy objects...
2018-04-09 11:01:46
In reply to Larr Pullo
2018-04-09 11:15:16
How come allyuh say we doh have any medical men on here,just read what Larr Pullo say,that explanation is the best advice you can get.If you do as he say there'll be no naara.
2018-04-09 11:19:56
In reply to DAVE400
I am all for alternative medicine but rubbing nara was a placebo cure. Stupid diagnosis. Torture and led to fatalities in cases of appendicitis...knew of a case where it caused a rupture and death.
The problem is, most of these nara cases are not professionally diagnosed, it could be something as simple as a stomach virus, especially if it involves multiple symptoms.
Nara cases with diarrhea should raise red flags.
2018-04-09 11:45:32
In reply to DAVE400
Stupid diagnosis. Torture and led to fatalities in cases of appendicitis...knew of a case where it caused a rupture and death.
2018-04-09 11:50:16
In reply to granite
ROLF!
2018-04-09 12:46:01
In reply to Larr Pullo
Well said. Engage your BT
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