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Inca Encyclopedia Block C [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Medicine - 2 views

  • he Inca were very skillful people in medicine. The Incas believed that being sick was either a punishment from the gods or evil magic. The only way to cure the sickness was to go to a doctor or by magic. Every year disease and evil would be banished from Cuzco during the Situa Festival. The Situa Festival consisted of several day
  • The Inca medicine was amazing. The Inca doctors were consistently finding new herbs, minerals and trying new remedies and improving the old ones. The Inca doctors were in search for many new answers for great medical development and the healing power of the Inca medicine was extraordinary. As well as the religion and magical spells had a great part of treatment, which helped the patient believe he/she was cured. The fact that the person believed that they were cured freed endorphins in the blood stream, helping the body heal. 
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Maya medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • the Maya equated sickness with the captivity of one’s soul by supernatural beings, angered by some perceived misbehavior
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Aztec medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

  • the Aztec system recognised three main causes of illness and injuries—supernatural causes involving the displeasure of the gods or excess and imbalance with the supernatural and natural worlds, magical causes involving malevolent curses and sorcerers (a tlacatecolotl in Nahuatl),
  • and natural or practical causes. Establishing a treatment for any given ailment depended first upon determining the nature of its cause.
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