Traditional Yucatec Maya herbal medicine survives in eastern Quintana Roo. Here, both hmeen (curers/ritualists) and ordinary people continue to use traditional herbs, but fewer species over time and with more and more introduction not only of biomedical cures but also of folk cures from other parts of Mexico. The result is a free, open, dynamic system in which individuals choose what seems to work and what seems to offer hope.
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Anderson, E. N. (2016). Traditional and Nontraditional Medicine in a Yucatec Maya Community (pp. 1–16). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48088-6_1
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