Feeling the Pulse in Maya Medicine: An Endangered Traditional Tool for Diagnosis, Therapy, and Tracking Patients' Progress

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-119

  Balick, Michael J ^a   De Gezelle, Jillian M ^a   Arvigo, Rosita ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC BOTANY   (United States)

^b Ix Chel Tropical Research Center   (Belize)

Author keywords

Belize; Ethnomedicine; Maya; pulse diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEALING; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; PALPATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE DIAGNOSIS; PULSE PALPATION; PULSE RATE; RELIGION; SOCIAL BELIEF; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BELIZE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FAMOUS PERSONS; HEART RATE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; INDIANS, CENTRAL AMERICAN; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PULSE;

EID: 39849103618     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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