Kay M, Yoder M
College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721.
Soc Sci Med. 1987;25(4):347-55. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(87)90273-5.
The purpose of this paper is to report the current status of hot/cold principles in the ethnotherapeutics of women of southwestern U.S.A., northwestern Mexico. The paper presents a secondary data analysis from three studies, including a data bank of Women's Ethnotherapeutic Agents derived from literature searches, interviews of women in research of Mexican American Grandmothers as Health Care Advisors, and research in the historical roots of the ethnotherapeutic agents used in contemporary domestic medicine. This report presents women's home remedies, what these remedies are believed to do, and the sources of this domestic therapy knowledge. It concentrates on persistence and change in one aspect of the theoretical base of these remedies, their humoral complexional classification. In the analysis of data from these studies, continuation of aspects of the hot/cold theory is demonstrated. It is suggested that the persistence is tacit, with the lack of articulated knowledge of humoral theory today stemming from the content of contemporary remedy books. Instead of arguing either diffusion or independent invention, commonly held ethnophysiological concepts are offered as a possible explanation for the persistence of hot and cold therapy practices.
本文旨在报告美国西南部和墨西哥西北部女性民族疗法中热/冷原则的现状。本文对三项研究进行了二次数据分析，包括通过文献检索得出的女性民族治疗药物数据库、对墨西哥裔美国祖母作为医疗保健顾问的研究中的女性访谈，以及对当代家庭医学中使用的民族治疗药物的历史根源的研究。本报告介绍了女性的家庭疗法、这些疗法被认为的作用以及这种家庭治疗知识的来源。它集中于这些疗法理论基础的一个方面——它们的体液体质分类——的持续性和变化。在对这些研究的数据进行分析时，热/冷理论的某些方面得以延续。有人认为这种持续性是隐性的，当今体液理论缺乏清晰阐述的知识源于当代疗法书籍的内容。本文没有争论传播或独立发明的问题，而是提出普遍持有的民族生理概念作为热疗和冷疗实践持续存在的一种可能解释。
