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The hot-cold wet-dry syndrome among the Quiche of Joyabajessay 1977 • Neuenswander, Helen L. & Souder, Shirley D.
Quiché Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This is a study of Quiché ethnomedicine. The Quiche see the world, including human physiology, in terms of hot and cold. Good health requires balancing the two, and illness is diagnosed in terms of a preponderance of one or the other. "Hot" and "cold...