Wind in the Blood,9781556433047

Wind in the Blood

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ISBN13: 9781556433047
ISBN10: 1556433042
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1999-10-22
Publisher(s): North Atlantic Books
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Summary

Wind in the Bloodis 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 workers in Mayan areas to bridge the gulf between Western medcal technique and Mayan medical knowledge. Mexican physicians Hernan Garcia, Antonio Sierra, and Hiberto Balam discovered that the similarities between Mayan medicine and traditional Chinese medcine were profound and helpful in their medical work.

Author Biography

Translator Jeff Conant is the lead author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health (Hesperian Foundation, 2008); his articles and essays have been published in independent media and anthologized in the books Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground, Confronting Capitalism, We Are Everywhere, and Tipping the Sacred Cow. His book, A Poetics of Resistance: Strategy and Symbol in the Zapatista Communiqués, Being a True Tale of a Possible Better World in its First Untamed Imaginings is forthcoming from AK Press in 2009. His training in Shiatsu and acupressure and work in community development in southern Mexico deeply informed his work translating Wind in the Blood. He currently lives in Northern California.

Table of Contents

Author's Acknowledgments xii
Translator's Acknowledgments xv
Translator's Foreword xvii
Preface xxiii
Introduction xxv
Existing Information on Traditional Mayan Medicine xxvii
The Chinese Conceptual System as an Instrument for Broaching Traditional Mayan Medicine xxix
Contact with Mayan Medicine xxxi
The Mayan Conceptual System on the Yucatan Peninsula xxxii
Human Relation with the Cosmos in Mayan and Chinese Medicine
1(20)
The Human and the Cosmos in Mayan Culture
1(1)
The Human and the Cosmos in Chinese Culture
1(1)
Mayan Mythology
2(1)
Chinese Mythology
2(1)
The Mayan Cosmos
3(1)
The Chinese Cosmos
4(1)
The Mayan Gods
4(2)
The Chinese Gods
6(1)
The Four Directions of the Mayan Universe
7(1)
The Four Cardinal Points in Chinese Culture
8(1)
The Mayan Calendar
9(1)
The Chinese Calendar
10(1)
A Mayan duality: Heat and Cold
11(1)
A Chinese duality: Yin and Yang
11(1)
Maize in Mayan Culture
12(2)
Rice in Chinese Culture
14(1)
Cosmic Influence in Mayan Culture
15(1)
Cosmic Influence in Chinese Culture
16(2)
Chinese Five Element Theory
18(3)
The Human Body
21(19)
The Human Body in Traditional Mayan Medicine
21(1)
The Human Body in Traditional Chinese Medicine
21(2)
Time and the Body: Maya
23(1)
Time and the Body: China
24(2)
The Body, Hot and Cold: Maya
26(1)
The Body, Hot and Cold, Yin and Yang: China
27(1)
Tuch and Tipte Among the Maya
28(1)
The Dan tian of the Chinese
29(1)
The Joints: Maya
29(1)
The Right Side of the Body: Maya
29(1)
Parts of the Body: China
30(1)
Vital Principles: Maya
30(2)
Vital Principles: China
32(2)
Points and Wind Channels in Mayan Medicine
34(1)
Points and Meridians in Traditional Chinese Medicine
34(1)
The Tongue in Traditional Chinese Medicine
35(1)
Five Element Theory and the Human body in Chinese Medicine
36(1)
The Organs, Emotions, and Vital Principles in Traditional Chinese Medicine
37(3)
Causality and Illness
40(26)
Causality in Mayan Traditional Medicine
40(1)
Organic Causes
40(1)
Supernatural Causes (lik naal---``Illness From the World of the Winds'')
41(1)
Heat and Cold Imbalance
42(2)
Digestive and Nutritional Disorders
44(1)
Posture and Movement
45(1)
Excessive Work
45(1)
Contamination
45(1)
Lack of Preventive Care
46(1)
Weakness
46(1)
Emotional State
47(1)
Involuntary Human Actions
48(2)
Animals, Plants, and Objects
50(1)
Voluntary Human Actions
50(1)
The Winds
50(4)
Other Causes
54(1)
Causality in Chinese Traditional Medicine
54(1)
Internal Causes
55(1)
Malnutrition
55(1)
The Seven Emotions
56(2)
Sexual Activity, Work, and Leisure
58(1)
External Causes
59(1)
The Six Atmospheric Influences
59(7)
Diagnostics
66(11)
Diagnostics in Mayan Medicine
66(1)
Symptomatic Diagnostics
66(3)
Diagnosis by Divination
69(4)
Diagnostics in Chinese Medicine
72(1)
Tongue Diagnosis
73(2)
Pulse Diagnosis
75(2)
Therapeutics
77(62)
Mayan Therapies
77(1)
Chinese Therapies
78(1)
Mayan Herbology
78(19)
Chinese Herbology
97(4)
Mayan Massage: Talladas and Jet
101(6)
Chinese Massage
107(2)
Tui Na
Mayan Acupuncture: Tok and Jup
109(17)
Chinese Acupuncture
126(3)
Plasters and Poultices in Mayan Medicine
129(2)
Moxibustion and Poultices in Chinese Medicine
131(1)
Mayan Incantations and Limpiezas
132(1)
Cleansings
133(3)
Lu'usa' K'eebaan
Chi kung in Chinese Practice
136(3)
Traditional Health Workers
139(11)
Traditional Mayan Healers
139(3)
The Role of the J'meen
142(2)
Herbalists
144(1)
Tzak Xiu
Masseuses and Bone Setters
145(1)
Midwives
145(5)
Traditional Health Workers in Chinese Medicine
147(3)
The Evolution of Traditional Medicine and its Relation with the West
150(7)
Mayan Tradition and Western Medicine
150(1)
Chinese Tradition and Western Medicine
150(7)
Conclusions
157(14)
General Observations
157(2)
The Cosmos
159(1)
The Body
160(2)
Causality
162(2)
Diagnostics
164(1)
Therapeutics
164(3)
Mayan Disease Classification
167(1)
General Conclusions
168(3)
Appendix Disease Classification 171(82)
The Study of Traditional Disease Classification
171(2)
Mayan Disease Classification
173(10)
Organic Illnesses
173(4)
Spiritual and Wind-Borne Illnesses
177(6)
Workshops in Traditional Medicine
183(70)
The Principal Mayan Diseases
183(1)
Organic Illnesses
183(49)
Spiritual Illnesses
232(21)
A Note on Pronunciation 253(2)
Glossary of Mayan Terms 255(2)
Comments on the Translation 257(2)
Authors' Bibliography 259(6)
Translator's Bibliography 265(2)
Notes 267(2)
Index 269

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