“…Studies on traditional healing practices within the Lio community have encompassed the documentation of Nijo healing ) and the compilation of a lexicon related to Lio healing practices (Genua 2018). Other folk medicine studies within the Lio community have focused on documenting Sua Soza, a healing mantra in the Ende language (Bala and Hua 2020), and the documentation of the Tu Gelu healing ritual, which involves the treatment of mystical ailments through the mediation of a traditional healer, involving the exchange of items representing livestock (Wula and Mboka 2021). Additionally, ethnobotanical studies recording the plant species utilized by the Lio people for traditional healing have shown that there are 47 plant species in the village of Waturaka and 52 plant species in the village of Detuwulu in Ende Regency used for traditional healing (Wae, Gago, and Ngapa 2022;Deda 2019).…”