The shoots broke up their presentation into three sections, each researched and presented by a different partner.
They laid out a comparison of health trends.
Keys to good health
Nigeria: Staying warm. Disease based off of becoming too cold.
India: Maintaining an even balance in body temperature based off of hot and cold foods. Disease caused by too much heat or too much cold. Often the result of eating too many hot foods or too many cold foods.
Kenya: Keeping worms healthy, keeps the body healthy. Accept western medicine for young children who cannot handle the worms yet.
The roots focused on how non-traditional treatment is interacting with traditional treatment.
Mayans: Wind carries spirits. Focus for diagnoses is on reading pulse. Some diseases there do not have equivalents in modern medicine and could only be described as mental illness.
Chumash Indians: hunter/gatherer nomadic society. Use medicine within their own home often as opposed to seeing a healer. Smoke white sage and tobacco for sacred dreams. They are wary of biomedical doctors, occasionally go to chinese medicine doctors or Mexican healers. Kenya: Issue with western medicine is that it tries to contain things to much. Organs are not worms, worms live within the organs. If the worms are not balanced, disease is caused.
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