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Sacred Herbs And Ancient Healers: Decolonizing Traditional Mexican Medicinal Practices, Julio Carmona Rosales
Sacred Herbs And Ancient Healers: Decolonizing Traditional Mexican Medicinal Practices, Julio Carmona Rosales
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Traditional Mexican medicine is not only plants and herbs but a harmonious balance between man and nature. For the Aztecs, maintaining that balance was imperative to have a sustainable diet and a good relationship with the ecology that surrounds them. Unfortunately, the duality of the "microcosm" and nature has been disappearing from Mesoamerican thought and rhetoric of inferiority to European thoughts such as the philosophy of traditional Mexican medicine. The Aztec diet was rich in nutrients, vitamins, and amino acids. One of the essential Mesoamerican medicine manuscripts is the Badiano Codex, which has more than 150 plants. Phytochemical studies have …