Power Point

Today we are doing some last minute assembling of our power point. I am going through my notes and out google doc to see what I can contribute to the presentation. I was assigned the Qollahuayan Indians, So I am mostly filling out information about this group. I am also contributing some definitions from wikipedia to help spell out the problem and define some of the terms used in the articles.

Here are some examples of how I am applying my notes and research to the problem and the questions in the powerpoint.

For each culture, how is dichotomy and the necessity for balance expressed?
For this section I have defined the Qollahuayan explanatory model:
For the Qollahuayans the necessity for balance is expressed through an ongoing cycle of body fluids including fat, bile, milk, semen, and by-products: feces, urine and sweat. The fluids are processed in the Sonco(heart) and must be released into nature in order to keep the cycle of health going. They focus less on keeping a balance in their body and more on continuing the cycle of fluid exchange with the surrounding environment.

Illustrate how the world views of cultures are integrated with their body concepts.
Centrifugal organs separate/remove/distribute nutrients and toxins.  Blood and urine quality, determined by pulse and coloration of urine samples. 


We will apply what we learn about world views, explanatory models of disease, and body concepts in order to evaluate the reasons that people within specific cultures choose particular plant medicines.  The Qollahuayans view their herbal medicine as an exchange of ingredients between the earth and the body. Qollohuayan herbalists classify blood based on a system of hold, cold, wet, and dry. Plants and diseases are also given a temperature and/or moisture classification and are matched up accordingly. Plants are also classified and chosen based off of how they affect the flow of fluids throughout the body.


Vocabulary:

Disease- A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism.

Etiology- the study of causation or origination

Prognosis- a medical term to describe the likely outcome of an illness.

biomedical- of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical science.

dichotomy- A dichotomy is any splitting of a whole into exactly two non-overlapping parts, meaning it is a procedure in which a whole is divided into two parts.

Centripetal-  is a force that makes a body follow a curved path: it is always directed orthogonal to the velocity of the body, toward the instantaneous center of curvature of the path.

Centrifugal- Centrifugal force represents the effects of inertia that arise in connection with rotation and which are experienced as an outward force away from the center of rotation.

Qollahuayan terms:

Sonco - Heart. Center for body fluid processing. 

Allyu - Vertical triangular land mass in which Qollohuayan communities live.

Yawar- Blood

Wira - Fat

I have also used some categories which Leisa made to sum up some of the information about Qollahuayans as it applies to our problem: 

Disease Etiology: Disease is caused by environmental change to the mountain system or problems with the body fluid cycle described by hot, cold, wet and dry conditions.

Diagnoses: Diseases are diagnosed based off of pulse readings and urine analyzation.

Treatments: Offerings of blood, fat and coca are made to the mountain to maintain good health. Herbalists treat disease with herbs classified as hot, cold, wet or dry and herbs that relate to specific body fluids.

Pathophysiology of the illness: People need the cycle of fluids to continue. The cycle of fluids in the body relates to the topographical features of the mountain.