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Mayan Traditional Medicine
Mayan h'men healers use copal, pericón, chaya, and rainforest botanicals alongside ceremony and the sacred Tzolk'in calendar — a cosmological system of diagnosis and healing still practiced today.
Mexico, Guatemala & Central America
Achiote (Annatto)Acuyo (Hoja Santa Root)Amate (Sacred Fig)BalchéBalsamito (Croton)Boob (Sabal Palm)Cacao (Sacred Cacao)Calabaza (Pumpkin)Capirote (Miconia)Ceiba (Sacred Ceiba)Chac Sinic (Lonchocarpus)Chac Teah (Annona)Chac Tun (Phyllanthus)Chakté Kok (Haematoxylum)Chaya (Tree Spinach)Che Che (Diphysa)Chili Chocolate (Cacao)Chintok (Datura)Chuchupate (Ligusticum)Ciricote (Cordia)Ciricote BarkCocolmeca (Smilax)Copal (Pom)Copal BlancoCopal Negro (Bursera Penicillata)Ek Balam (Vitex)EpazoteGuaco (Mikania)Guanábana (Soursop)Guanábana LeafGuarumbo (Cecropia)Guayacán (Lignumvitae)Habin (Piscidia)Habin RootHierba del Pollo (Commelina)Hierba SantaHuano (Sabal Palm Leaf)Ix Canan Blanco (Calea)Ix-canan (Calea)Ixim (Corn Silk)