The Tai Lue medical system is passed down from healer to healer by experience. The Tai Lue believe that illness is caused by both supernatural and natural factors. Almost all of the natural illnesses in the village are caused by work. The general health care pattern of the Tai Lue when getting ill is to take a rest, stop working, take some medicine, and go to the folk healers in the village. A lot of healing techniques are used by different healers; ‘Moe Pao’ is a healer who uses the chanting technique and each ‘Moe Pao’ specializes in treating specific parts of the body or illness.There are also healers who use herbs called ‘Moe Ya Muang’. These healers may be used by patients in combination with rituals by people who perform rituals to prevent illness, called ‘Kao Jum’ and ‘Ajarn”.

The reasons why the Tai Lue folk medicine at Thafanue is still being used and practiced are that: it is easily accessible; its efficacy; it requires low expenditure and healers are of the same ethnicity, and there is little migration. However, in the future the Tai Lue folk medicine will gradually disappear if nobody inherits this knowledge.