Traditional Quechua Medicine: Part 1 of a guide to local peruvian plants

Traditional Quechua Medicine: Part 1 of a guide to local Peruvian plants Contrary to what you might think, up to 80% of the populations in less economically developed countries use indigenous medicine for primary health care (1), and the Quechua communities of the Andes mountains are no different. Passed down through kinship lines and exchanged between peers, traditional Quechua medicine has a preference for ethnobiology, and can be split into two parts: plant medicine and holistic medicine. As presented in many studies on Andean medicine, when faced with an illness, almost all households in these rural communities self-treat with their...