Wind In The Blood is a detailed look at Mayan medicine on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and its similarities to Chinese traditional medicine. It was originally published in Spanish as a manual for health works in Mayan areas to bridge the gulf between Western medical technique and Mayan medical knowledge. The authors discovered that the similarities between Mayan medicine and TCM were profound and helpful in their medical work.The doctors initially describe the Yucatec Mayan view of health as a marker of social, physical, and spirit equilibrium. We learn about causality and theory in both Mayan and Chinese traditional medicine: diagnostics, therapeutics, the role of traditional health works and human relations with the divine. Time and the body, points and wind channels, and the structural basis of both systems are detailed from the perspective of the Mayan curandero, with numerous photographs of needle positioning and use of herbs. Included are an extensive appendix on disease classification and plants used by practising curanderos today. This handbook will be of interest to anyone who works with indigenous cultures, traditional Chinese medicine, and has a strong interest in native culture. 'The authors skilfully weave together the fabric of traditional Mayan medicine, using Chinese medicine as the loom. The result is a rich and complex tapestry of indigenous health practices and contemporary Mayan culture that will surprise and delight ...' - Medea Benjamin

245 x 210mm

295pp

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TCM Intro/Theory