Condition whose manifestation is bone and joint pain that makes normal mobility. Its causes are sudden temperature changes, as exposure to cold drafts, getting wet when it is hot or sweaty for work or eating hot foods, according to the Dictionary of Mexican Traditional Medicine, UNAM.
Among the Indians, their origin is diverse, but always related to these causes. The Nahua of Puebla says that is typical drunks and people who got wet when they were children while his body was warm. The Otomi of San Pablito is not related to change his wet clothes. In Tepoztlan, Morelos, is due to moisture, and Baja California, for possession of a bad dream. For the Huichol is a punishment from the gods deer hunters who do not yield offerings, and for the people of Tabasco, is due to severe shock.
The symptoms are bone and joint pain, deformed joints of the hands, knees and feet swollen and “desire to do nothing.” In Santa Ana Tlacotenco City, manifesting as headache, poor appetite and fatigue.
To treat these animals use poisonous, temazcal stinging and cannabis sativa plants which are applied to the affected part. In Merida, Yucatan, use a cream made from bee venom. In Santa Ana Tlacotenco make a bee will pique the patient or apply honey on the damage site. Sonora Market in Mexico City recommends bee and ant stings. In Michoacan, bees placed in a container with rubbing alcohol and then with the liquid the painful area. In Patzcuaro, using leeches or a cream containing menthol rattlesnake oil and ant venom, as in the Sierra Tarahumara and Las Margaritas, Chiapas.
Elsewhere temazcal baths recommended during convalescence. In Morelos State of Mexico and hit the sore areas with stinging plants, such as poor women (Cnidoscolus ureas) and nettle (Urtica dioica) to suppress the inconvenience. In Sayula, Veracruz, Tabasco macerated in rubbing alcohol cannabis or spirit on the part. The Tarahumara use bathrooms leaves off (Ptelea trifoliata); Tamulté Chontal of de la Sabana, Tabasco, apply suction, bloodletting, and poultices or lodex Bengué. The Huichol Sobane the patient to concentrate “evil” in one place and then remove it by suction.
In academic medicine, rheumatism corresponds to various diseases that occur with inflammation of the joints.
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