Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 4, Issue 2 , Pages 113-119, March 2008

Feeling the Pulse in Maya Medicine: An Endangered Traditional Tool for Diagnosis, Therapy, and Tracking Patients’ Progress

  • Michael J. Balick, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding Author. Address: New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
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  • Jillian M. De Gezelle, PhD(cand)

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx, NY
    • ,
  • Rosita Arvigo, DN

      Affiliations

    • Ix Chel Tropical Research Center, San Ignacio, Belize

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 Support for the ongoing Belize Ethnobotany Project, began in 1987, has been provided by the following organizations over the past two decades: The U.S. National Institute of Health/National Cancer Institute N01-CM-67924 (MB), The U.S. Agency for International Development 505-0035-G-0PG-8001-00 (MB, RA), The Metropolitan Life Foundation, The Overbrook Foundation, Grinnell College, The Edward John Noble Foundation, The Rex Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Healing Forest Conservancy, The John and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Gildea Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Garden Club of America, as well as, the Philecology Trust, through the establishment of Philecology Curatorship of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden.

PII: S1550-8307(07)00454-5

doi:10.1016/j.explore.2007.12.002

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 4, Issue 2 , Pages 113-119, March 2008

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