Aztec women painted their faces a beautiful yellow
Aztec furniture was pretty minimalist...
What did the ancient Maya wear?
What lies underneath Aztec sculpture?
Hear the noisy sound of codex page turning...
The ancient Voladores ceremony is still performed today
Guess what English children think a Mexica chocolate whisk is...!
The Codex Cospi was once thought to be Chinese!
Just how advanced were the Maya?
For ancient Mexicans the cosmos was woven and netted
In the news - the gender pay gap in colonial Mexico
The pre-Columbian ballgame survives today in Sinaloa...
Teaching resource - a Maya farmer’s house
We compare Maya and Aztec creation myths
Aztec noble versus commoner
A Mexican codex in Oxford was thought to be Egyptian!
Molluscs were both useful and symbolic in the Mexica empire
Browse through photos snapped in recent schools...
Cocoa beans make perfect small change!
An extraordinary ancient Mexican wind resonator
General Aztecs Maya Tocuaro Kids Contact 19 Oct 2019/1 Reed
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Introduction
Aztec advances (7): sweat lodge NEW
Aztec advances (6): anaesthetics NEW
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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