Keywords
oral tradition
domestic medicine
medicinal plants
Maya
Keywords plus
Ethnobotany
Useful plants
Botanic medicine
Medicinal plant
Cultural heritage – Campeche(Mexico).
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Abstract
The oral transmission of knowledge about the domestic use of plants for medicinal purposes in some communitiesin Campeche, Mexico, is included within the Intangible Cultural Heritage because its transmission from generation togeneration, since pre-hispanic times. As part of a sense that the modern Maya still have to the land that provides themwith plants and their use to restore the health of the individual, this paper describes the knowledge and use of plantsin order to cure common diseases in urban and rural families in particular. To cure these pathologies in a domestic wayis not required a deep knowledge and rituals as in the case of so-called herbalists, ‘curanderos’ or h-menoob [priests,in Maya language]. Although this knowledge has survived, adjustments to the current Mexican law are needed in orderto preserve the application of medicinal plants to treat common ailments to avoid the loss of this oral transmission.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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