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Healing Practices of the People of Belize

 

作者: Dawn Blanchard,   Andrea Bean,  

 

期刊: Holistic Nursing Practice  (OVID Available online 2001)
卷期: Volume 15, issue 2  

页码: 70-78

 

ISSN:0887-9311

 

年代: 2001

 

出版商: OVID

 

关键词: Belize;Doctrine of Signatures;herbal medicine;holistic health;rain forest remedies;traditional healers

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

Few countries in the world offer health care enthusiasts the chance to explore holistic models more than the tiny country of Belize in Central America. Situated in the lush rain forests of the tropics, Belize provides the context for practitioners who are trying to blend treatment modalities as old as the Mayan Empire with the unrelenting influx of intensive care technologies from the West. Herein are the stories of a cadre of healers in Belize who model an integration of the traditional and the professional and how they have accomplished it.

 



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