The early history of cacao
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Mexica women basically kept the whole empire going
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The rare remains of an Aztec waistcoat
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Many plants and animals had more than one meaning...
No-one surpassed the Mixtecs in the applied arts
What looks like an Aztec fruit farmer is in fact...
Memory cannot be burned...
Cocoa beans make perfect small change!
The lowly food source that helped the Aztecs grow into an empire...
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A Shakespearean sonnet v a Nahua song-poem...
Scientists try to reconstruct an ancient codex
Trainee runners had to shin up the 113 steps of the Templo Mayor
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The pre-Columbian ballgame survives today in Sinaloa...
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Introduction
Aztec advances (14): therapeutic massage NEW
Aztec advances (13): tamales
Aztec advances (12): crop storage
Aztec advances (11): distillation
Aztec advances (10): medicinal use of tobacco
Aztec advances (9): nixtamalization of corn
Aztec advances (8): tartar removal
Aztec advances (7): sweat lodge
Aztec advances (6): anaesthetics
Aztec advances (5): treating bone fractures
Aztec advances (4): treating arthritic pain
‘Obsidian medicine’
Aztec advances (3): diet: blue-green algae
Aztec advances (2): dentistry
Aztec advances (1): anatomical knowledge
Health Profiles: Aztec Warrior v Spanish Conquistador
Mexican herbal medicines
Herbal Medicine, Aztec Style
Aztec Herbal Pharmacopoeia, Part 1
Where Aztecs Meet Scientists
Plants used for reproductive health among the modern-day Nahua
Las enfermedades mentales son enfermedades del corazón
UK/further resources on Aztec medicine
Aztec/Mexica traditional steam bath or ‘temazcal’

UK/further resources on Aztec medicine

Here are one or two little known sources of further information on Aztec/Mexica health and medicine, both UK-based and international; in English and Spanish...

Network for Indigenous Mexican Studies at Sheffield University
Network of practitioners of traditional Mexica healers in the UK
Read ‘An Aztec Herbal: The Classic Codex of 1552’ by William Gates, online
‘Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico’
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