La enfermedades de las mujeres en la Nueva España, una taxonomía a través de las plantas emenagogas (siglo XVII)

Indigenous women in the Central Highlands used a variety of herbalists resources to solve their illnesses. Some of these resources were recorded in the books on medicine, surgery and materia médica to be printed during the last decades of the sixteenth century and early seventeenth century in New Sp...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5ca015e642c042739a03ee014a3c28992021-12-02T10:33:23ZLa enfermedades de las mujeres en la Nueva España, una taxonomía a través de las plantas emenagogas (siglo XVII)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.69565https://doaj.org/article/5ca015e642c042739a03ee014a3c28992016-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/69565https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252Indigenous women in the Central Highlands used a variety of herbalists resources to solve their illnesses. Some of these resources were recorded in the books on medicine, surgery and materia médica to be printed during the last decades of the sixteenth century and early seventeenth century in New Spain. My aim in this article is to explore the spaces of intersection and ruptures between medical cultures that were registered there, one from the indigenous world and the other from the European world. To achieve this objective I made use of two texts that are today considered part of the Hernandinos material: Medicina verdadera, cirugía, y la astrología (real medicine, surgery, and astrology) (1607) and Cuatro Libros de la Naturaleza (1615), which are characterized among other things, to incorporate a considerable number of indigenous medicinal plants. I used as a guiding principle, the galenic, concept of emenagogo, as it allowed narrow my universe of study. It let me focus only on the therapeutic resources that were considered in the registration process by having one or more characteristics associated with menstruation. And also recognize the limits imposed by the very definition of the concept when classifying indigenous medicinal plants.Angélica Morales SarabiaCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleemmenagoguesmenstruationchildbirthNew Spainmedicinal plantsAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2016)
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topic emmenagogues
menstruation
childbirth
New Spain
medicinal plants
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle emmenagogues
menstruation
childbirth
New Spain
medicinal plants
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
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Angélica Morales Sarabia
La enfermedades de las mujeres en la Nueva España, una taxonomía a través de las plantas emenagogas (siglo XVII)
description Indigenous women in the Central Highlands used a variety of herbalists resources to solve their illnesses. Some of these resources were recorded in the books on medicine, surgery and materia médica to be printed during the last decades of the sixteenth century and early seventeenth century in New Spain. My aim in this article is to explore the spaces of intersection and ruptures between medical cultures that were registered there, one from the indigenous world and the other from the European world. To achieve this objective I made use of two texts that are today considered part of the Hernandinos material: Medicina verdadera, cirugía, y la astrología (real medicine, surgery, and astrology) (1607) and Cuatro Libros de la Naturaleza (1615), which are characterized among other things, to incorporate a considerable number of indigenous medicinal plants. I used as a guiding principle, the galenic, concept of emenagogo, as it allowed narrow my universe of study. It let me focus only on the therapeutic resources that were considered in the registration process by having one or more characteristics associated with menstruation. And also recognize the limits imposed by the very definition of the concept when classifying indigenous medicinal plants.
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author Angélica Morales Sarabia
author_facet Angélica Morales Sarabia
author_sort Angélica Morales Sarabia
title La enfermedades de las mujeres en la Nueva España, una taxonomía a través de las plantas emenagogas (siglo XVII)
title_short La enfermedades de las mujeres en la Nueva España, una taxonomía a través de las plantas emenagogas (siglo XVII)
title_full La enfermedades de las mujeres en la Nueva España, una taxonomía a través de las plantas emenagogas (siglo XVII)
title_fullStr La enfermedades de las mujeres en la Nueva España, una taxonomía a través de las plantas emenagogas (siglo XVII)
title_full_unstemmed La enfermedades de las mujeres en la Nueva España, una taxonomía a través de las plantas emenagogas (siglo XVII)
title_sort la enfermedades de las mujeres en la nueva españa, una taxonomía a través de las plantas emenagogas (siglo xvii)
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2016
url https://doaj.org/article/5ca015e642c042739a03ee014a3c2899
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