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Folklore and Current Healthcare - Coggle Diagram
Folklore and Current Healthcare
Ancient Egypt
Angry gods or evil forces caused bad luck and disaster. People used religion to combat these forces and to treat others (Brazier, 2018).
Beliefs and fear of magic, gods, demons, evils spirits, and so on. They believed that the gods created and controlled life (Brazier, 2018).
Toth, god of the moon, of reckoning, of learning, and of writing.
Isis, goddess of fertility, motherhood, magic, death, healing, and rebirth.
Sekhmet, goddess of healing.
Treatment
Magic
Incantations
Amulets
Aromas
Offerings
Presented to nourish and sustain the gods.
Cinnamon, frankincense, lemongrass, myrrh, rose.
Represented animals, deities, symbols, or objects.
Channel Theory
Doctors believed that just like irrigations, channels provide the body with routes for good health (Brazier, 2018).
The heart is the source, it speaks to each part of the body.
A specific number of vessels go to each part of the body.
Current Healthcare
Modern medicine
Stringent intellectual property laws and highly evolved patenting system used to protect knowledge about drugs or medical techniques.
HIPPA
Insurance
Licenses, certifications, continuing education courses.
Mainly based on scientific evidence, factual data.
Infectious disease control
Patient assessment
Hand hygiene
PPE
Safe management of equipment, environment, blood, body fluids, and linen.
Safe disposal of waste
Occupational safety and exposure
Treatments
Curative
To cure a patient of an illness.
Palliative
To relieve symptoms of an illness.
Preventative
To avoid the onset of an illness.
Ancient Greece
Diverse collection of methods and beliefs which depended on general factors such as geography and time period, and more specific factors like social traditions and a patient's gender and social class (Cartwright, 2018).
Gods sent disease and death to punish hubris and injustice (Giarelli, 2015).
Only chosen ones could propitiate disease-sending deities (Giarelli, 2015).
Gods were vulnerable to disease and wounds among one another (Giarelli, 2015).
Folk medicine
Knowledge of herbs and accessible drugs, collected piece of piece through the ages (Giarelli, 2015).
Isonome
Equality before the law, balance of bodily fluids, and just society (Giarelli, 2015).
Four humors of Hippocratic medicine
Black bile
Yellow bile
Phlegm
Blood
Hippocratic oath
Contradictory and sexist; bans abortion and suicide. Comparable to Christian oath ((Giarelli, 2015).
Traditional Chinese Medicine
A vital force of life, called Qi, surges through the body.
Any imbalance to Qi can cause disease and illness. Imbalance caused by alteration in yin and yang.
Yin and yang is a conceptualization of dualism, which describes how contrary forces may actually be complementary.
Yang is described as masculine, light, south, fire, active, sun, young, odd numbers, rich, and hard (Cartwright, 2018).
Yin is described as feminine, dark, north, water, passive, moon, earth, old, even numbers, poor, and soft (Cartwright, 2018).
Treatments
Accupuncture
Moxibustion
Cupping
Massage
Herbal Remedies
Herbs such as astragalus, dong quai, ginger, kudzu, licorice, lyceum, schizandra were used.
Motions like pressing, nipping, stepping, and twisting apply direct pressure.
Applied using cattle horns or cross sections of bamboo. To create negative pressure inside the horn or bamboo these cups were boiled in water or fire was ignited to expel the air and suck the cups onto the skin (Kootenay Columbia College, 2018).
Consists of the burning of mugwort leaves.
Consists of insertion of one or several small metal needles into the skin and underlying tissues at precise points on the body.
