Guatemala Herbal Medicines | Three Day Herbal Workshops

Guatemala Herbal Medicines, which makes Guatemala and Lake Atitlan so special when it comes to herbal medicines. Health and medicine among the ancient Maya was a complex blend of mind, body, religion, ritual, and science.

Important to all, medicine was practiced only by a select few, who generally inherited their positions and received extensive education. These shamans acted as a medium between the physical world and the spirit world.

Immersion Three Days Of Guatemala Herbal Medicines

Immersion Three Days Of Guatemala Herbal Medicine practiced sorcery for the purpose of healing, foresight, and control over natural events. Since medicine was so closely related to religion, it was essential that Maya medicine men had vast medical knowledge and skill.

It is known that the Maya sutured wounds with human hair, reduced fractures, and were even skilled dental surgeons, making prostheses from jade and turquoise and filling teeth with iron pyrite.

In understanding Maya medicine, it is important to recognize that the Maya equated sickness with the captivity of one’s soul by supernatural beings, angered by some perceived misbehavior. For this reason, curing a sickness involves elements of ritual, cleansing, and herbal remedy

Lake Atitlán is a lake in the Guatemala highlands. It is technically endorheic (lacking direct flow to the sea) but substantial seepage feeds two nearby rivers. Atitlan is recognized to be the deepest lake in Central America with a maximum depth of about 340 meters (1,120 ft).

It is approximately 12 x 5 km, with around 20 cubic km of water. The lake is shaped by deep escarpments which surround it and by three volcanoes on its southern flank. Lake Atitlan is further characterized by towns and villages of the Maya people. The lake is about 50 kilometers (31 mi) west-northwest of Antigua.

Immersion Three Days Of Guatemala Herbal Medicine

Grow Your Own Cure is a company located in the highlands of Lake Atitlan Guatemala that is committed to educating and helping move from a world of chemical cures to a place where people are healed through the use of natural medicine found in the leaves, bark, roots, stems, and flowers of herbs.

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