Tribesmen do their own self medication using various plants avaiable in the wild.Everyone learn how to go and prepare them for treatments minor illnesses.There are herbal medicine healer who use both wild and cultivated plant there.
There are six distincly unique hill tribe-akha,karen,yao,lisu,mhong and lahu in the golden triangle area of thailand.Each has it own language,dress and religion.Each village has many traditional healers including shamans and spirit healers.