Anthropos: Anthropos, 68.1973

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Titel:: Anthropos

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Verlag:: Ed. St. Paul

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1906

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Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Titel:: Anthropos, 68.1973

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1973

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Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 68, 1973, Heft 3-4

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Titel:: Digestive Disorders and Plant Medicinals in Highland Guatemala

Sonstige Person:: Logan, Michael H.

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Digestive Disorders and Plant Medicináis in Highland Guatemala Michael H. Logan Introduction Many of the plant medicináis comprising the pharmacopeia of rural highland Guatemala are employed to treat ailments of the digestive system. Epidemiological surveys (Shattuck 1938; Bruch 1963; Gordon 1964) have clearly shown that for Guatemala, diseases of the digestive system are endemic and continue to be the leading cause of illness and mortality, especially in early childhood. Continuation of traditional folk remedies has perpetuated an extensive knowledge of medicinal botany in Ladino and Maya communities throughout Guatemala (Blake 1922; Villacorta 1926; Roys 1931; Dieseldorff 1939; Standley 1946; Gillin 1951; Adams 1952, 1967; Woods 1968; Rodriguez 1969). The high percentage of digestive medicináis encountered in rural Guatemala is a manifestation of the peasant’s attempt to counteract the illnesses 'which so greatly affect his health. The Guatemalan peasant rarely makes use of the services of the modern Medical doctor. Choice, financial and social barriers, as well as the prevailing scarcity of trained physicians in rural areas, have made treatment of illness in wiany cases a matter of traditional diagnosis calling for the appropriate cure, Which habitually involves a concoction of specific plant materials. Much can be gained from studying the pharmacopeia and medicinal Practices of non-industrialized or preliterate societies. Until well into the l^OO’s, 80% of all medicines in the Western world were obtained from roots, karks, and leaves. Of the 300 million prescriptions written during 1963 in the Gnited States, 47% contained a drug of natural origin and the yearly world Market for medicinal plants has been established at $ 300, 000, 000 (Krieg 1964: 7-8). The case examples involving the competitive efforts of individuals, Pharmaceutical firms, and even nations to acquire monopolies on such useful Native drug plants as Cinchona, Digitalis, Dioscorea, and Strophantus are well 35 Anthropos 68. 1973

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