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briantrevino

Health Issues - Ancient Maya - 0 views

  • The Maya thought that being sick was a punishment for a mistake or transgression.
  • Abdominal Pain
  • . Medicine Men relied a lot on what colour the plant was for what it was going to be able to cure e.g. Red leaves and plants for problems categorized with blood.
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  • ; Asthma; Colds; Disease of the Lungs and Breathing Passages
  • Diseases
  • of Women;
  • Bowel Complaints
  • Hair and Disease of the
  • Chills and Fever;
  • being hurt or sick was just as bad as having a criminal record.
  • Vertigo
  • Insomnia; Dislocations and Complaints of the Bones;
  • ; Fainting and Unconsciousness
  • Depression,
  • Scalp;
  • Insanity;
  • Poisoning
  • Skin Diseases,
  • Cancer and Tumour's;
  • Sunstroke
  • Ruptures.
  • being hurt or sick was just as bad as having a criminal record.
  • The Maya thought that being sick was a punishment for a mistake or transgression.
  • Medicine Men relied a lot on what colour the plant was for what it was going to be able to cure e.g. Red leaves and plants for problems categorized with blood
  • The average life expectancy for a Mayan man was between 50-55 and for Women was between 55-60. These are almost all of the health problems the Maya had :
  • Aches and Pains
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  • Disease of the Lungs and Breathing Passages
  • Disease of the Lungs and Breathing Passages
  • Skin Disease
  • Headache; Hiccough; Inflammation
  • yellow fever.
  • sic way of purification was the sweat bath.
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  • Jaundice;
  • Sweating; Teeth and Gums; Urine (bladder problems); Wounds, Cuts, Bruises, and
  • The Maya related sickness with being possessed of their soul by supernatural beings.
  • being hurt or sick was just as bad as having a criminal record.
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    The main health problem that the Maya's had was the "Yellow Fever"
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    The Maya related sickness with being possessed of their soul by supernatural beings.  
brenden2014

Maya Medicine - 0 views

  • Three clinical diseases, pinta, leishmaniasis, and yellow fever, and several psychiatric syndromes were described, Athletes' foot and diarrhea were very common and fast cured with herbal medicine.
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  • The ancient Maya  perceived health as “balance”, whereas illness and disease were “imbalance”. Balance, however, was influenced by season and varied by age, gender, personality and exposure to environmental temperature extremes. A central medical-related theme held that balance was effected favorably or adversely by diet.
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  • Three clinical diseases, pinta, leishmaniasis, and yellow fever, and several psychiatric syndromes were described, Athletes' foot and diarrhea were very common and fast cured with herbal medicin
  • The Mayan culture also was preoccupied with science, art, government, marketing, philosophy, letters and health.
  • cities or the rituals of blood sacrifice by the leader/kings or priesthood.
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    Maya medical dieases
brenden2014

Mayan Civilization, Ruins and Culture in Central America - 0 views

  • Mayan Medicine Mayan culture made adept use of the natural environment in Central America to maintain health and treat illnesses.  Traditional Mayan medicine is said to employ native plants to treat malaria and manage diabetes, among many other uses.
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    Mayan Medicine Mayan culture made adept use of the natural environment in Central America to maintain health and treat illnesses.  Traditional Mayan medicine is said to employ native plants to treat malaria and manage diabetes, among many other uses.
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brenden2014

Population, Environment and the Fall of the Mayan Civilization, A Lesson for ... - 0 views

  • r, appears to indicate that the health, nutrition and overall life-style was, in some respects, better than that of the people living there today.
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aobrecht

Inca Medicine ~ IACES News about Sciences and Health Specialities - 0 views

  • sadness, melancholy, mentally illnesses, severe afflictions of behavior, anger, cowardice, regret, anxiety, grief, pathological fear, dementia, severe psychotic disorders like madness, insanity, idiocy and hysteria; Just to mention a few of them.
cyclone19

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_medicine - 0 views

Maya health concerns and issues.

Maya diseases

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mboardman

4 Possible Reasons For The Collapse of the Mayan Civilization - 0 views

  • Most recently, scientists have turned their work towards the possibility of disease. The climate was humid and would have supported a host of parasitic activity. As the Mayan civilization grew and spread, disturbances would have occurred which could have placed the people in contact with parasites that would promote disease and death. If this were the case no member of the Mayans would have been spared. As with many diseases that attacked the human body, death can be a slow process dependent upon the strength and health of the individual attacked.
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bwagner10

Aztec Medicine - Aztecs of Mexico, history - 0 views

  • . The Aztec had a well established birth sign structure, much like modern astrology. Babies born during certain days were expected to develop into sickly children and die early of disease.
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    sickly children
tjmumm10

How the Aztecs cared for their diseases - 0 views

  • plants and herbal medicines
  • that were to be found.
  • its own special diseases, and syphilis came supposedly from the New World.
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  • treated by imploring the gods and using magical remedies, the Aztecs also had knowledge based on research and experience.
  • Among other things these gardens were used for medical research;
  • Aztec medical knowledge.
  • “laudable pus”
  • ‘In my own studies (Ortiz de Montellano 1990), I have shown that the Aztecs could produce the physiological effects (vomiting, diaphoresis, etc.)
  • that their ideas about the cause and cure of disease
  • folk medicines, in animal or laboratory tests, and even in clinical trials.
brenden2014

Aztec Medicine - Aztecs of Mexico, history - 0 views

  • The Mexica people were neurotic.
  • Depression
briantrevino

Peru: Cuzco-Machu Picchu - Chapter 4 - 2014 Yellow Book | Travelers' Health | CDC - 0 views

  • Important pre-travel information for Peru includes advice on preventing high-altitude illness, the risk for cutaneous leishmaniasis in certain jungle areas, use of yellow fever vaccine in some areas, and the risk of malaria for travelers visiting popular jungle lodges.
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    Peru includes advice on Preventing high-altitude illness. 
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