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PHUPIENDHAM KLAJON : WISDOM OF MASTICATION FOR HEALTH IN THAILAND AND LAOS PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM IN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES (PUBLIC HEALTH), SURINDRA RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY. ACEDEMIC YEAR 2018. THESIS ADVISORS : DR. USA KLOMPAN, ASSOC. PROF. DR. ACHARA PHANURAT, AND DR. SINGHA JANTRIWONG. 632 P. ABSTRACT The research on “Wisdom of Mastication for Health in Thailand and Laos People’s Democratic Republic” was a mixed method research between ethnography research and quantity research. The research objectives were 1) to study the way and behavior of food mastication for the well-being of the people in Thailand and Laos, 2) to conduct a trail on food mastication according to the way suggested by the Dhamma Medicine. There were five people participating in this research which had been contacted at Suanpanaboon 1, Don Tan District, Mukdahan Province, 3) to analyze the components of food mastication and to offer health promoting strategy in communities. The data study of the ethnography research was mainly studied and collected from the 99 key informants of Thais and Laos who were Buddhist monks, those who practiced Dhamma, healthy individuals, public health officers, other occupational individuals, Dhamma Medicine volunteers, other volunteers and the general public who gave importance to the way they masticated their foods for their behavior well-being in their daily lives or the form of “higher Dhamma practice of higher precepts (athisila),
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higher spirit (athichit), and higher wisdom (athipanya),” in order to change their right conducts, right speech, and right concentration, or intellectual well-being, with higher spirits and sustainable, sequentially. The quantitative research was studied and collected by questionnaire, constructed from the qualitative content analysis from the ethnography research, for statistical analysis on Exploratory Factor Analysis of 593 principal component informants. (8) Research Results were found as follows: 1. It was found that Thais and Laos people, who had right understanding and mindfully practice their food mastication in their daily lives by following the truth knowledge men, they could determine their right physical actions, right speech, and right concentration. They valued food mastication, in deep-understanding, for the most benefits rather than the five sensual desires and gained physical and mental strength. People intellectually realized that they do not chew or eat for forms, tastes, odors, sounds, touchs and feels which formed, substantial, the individual’s physical mental, economic, social, environmental, and intellectual capacity to maximize efficiency of their digestive system. In addition, they had been practicing mindfulness to reduce impulsive behavior which cures disease with low cost, and differentiated daily actions by applying precepts (Sila), supra-concentration (Samathi), and the wisdom (Panya) according to the virtue understanding. 2. The experimental practice of food masticating for well-being, according to the Dhamma Medicine principles, led to primarily understanding of finely masticating food will be better and easier to absorb. Simultaneously, proper mastication would result in vitality and give immediate energy. Furthermore, on a spiritual level, it gave a spiritual happiness. The exercise of mindfully food mastication helped to reduce desires and ego, sense of self (Atta) which were forms, tastes, odors, sounds, touchs and feels in foods including contemplating during masticating for the most benefits of moderating in eating and reducing desires and ego resulting to individual’s physical, mental, economic, social, environmental, and intellectual capacity, which were healthy behavior shifts with happiness, high spirits, clarity and sustainable, sequentially. 3. The components of food mastication suggested formulating the strategies and policies to magnify an outcome and promoting healthy living in communities in Thailand. The 6 policies are: 1) The bliss of enjoyment from the mastication of food results in the following virtues, moderation in eating, mental factor righteousness, right understanding, mental formulation of defilements in food and the five-sense forces. Those are the process to develop the wisdom, 2) The plant-based (pure vegetarian) foods both are Nutritionals and Medicine. In addition, it helps promote “virtue” (reducing defilements) and gradually Vipassana (athisila, athichit, athipunya), 3) Eating (8) a perfect bite size of food is a movement tool to train the mind and body to be able to gradually synchronized. It is the way to practice the mind and develop wisdom or mindfulness as of four-nutriment virtues: physical nutriment, contact nutriment, mental nutriment, and consciousness as nutriment. 4) A person who practices Vipassana by mindfully eating technique may result in awareness which promote healthy digestive system and can also get rid of lust and hatred, 5) There are two steps in eating food. First, placing the food in the mouth by hand, and then is masticating to allow the saliva to start digestive process. While doing these two steps, there are four foundation of mindfulness principles that have been applied, contemplation of the body, feelings, mind, and mind objects (regards ideas). These principles help reducing the state of delusion and become healthier, 6) Thai and Laos’s tradition of cooking and steaming of rice have many benefits. Taking small bite of food, fined chewing, swilling the food in your mouth, and swallowing are the best digestive system for making your food a medicine for your body. The strategy on “The Wisdom of Mastication for Health” is the truth strategy for creating the senses of happiness, well-being, and high spirits in one's own order, which is the process of “precepts (Sila), supra-concentration (Samathi), and the wisdom (Panya).” This is the wisdom process for practicing mindfulness reducing impulsive behaviors with save cost, simple, and capable of practicing by oneself by following the truth knowledge men that lead to well-being. It is free, and when sharing this knowledge with others since you are able to practice the wisdom, this helps the society save money on health. When people are healthier and leads to the strong health of the communities, this will be able to develop the country to flourish in self-reliance. Then this can help the neighbors, and other countries, continuously.