Mexican culture

The negative view of the mushrooms prevailed. Spanish mycophobia succeeded in stamping out the mushroom cult as a major force in Mexican culture. Only a handful of remote mountain tribes preserved the customs and rituals of what must once have been a splendid and powerful system of worship and magic. So complete was the neglect and ignorance in the Western world of this botanical aspect of Mexican religion, that in 1915 a reputable American botanist, William E. Safford, read a paper before a learned society claim-... 

Another study, but limited to just four groups of Mexican cultures (Maya, Nahua, Zapotec, and Mixe) located in three Mexican states (Yucatan, Veracruz, and Oaxaca) in the south and southeast parts of the country, gave similar results. Data from this study were collected almost ten years after the IMSS-COPLAMAR program, confirming the constant and preferential use for herbal remedies by these cultures.4... 

Similarly, the mycophilia t5q)ical of ancient Mexican cultures goes hand in hand with a general social acceptance of the effects of Psilocybe mushrooms and their established ritual usages. Among Mexican Indian tribes, the effects of psilocybin have never been causally linked to any type of known mental illness. It is interesting to note that the Indians of Mexico were the only Indians in the Americas who also harvested a large number of mushroom species for food. 

Playa del Carmen is more than a beach it s a Bohemian boomtown with European attitude and rich Mexican culture. After a day in the sun, drop by Fly, a South Beach-style restaurant and bar. 

Thus, of course, the distinction between whiteness and nonwhiteness never fully lost its salience in American political culture. Mexican annexation, black Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow practices, Indian Wars, Asian immigration and Exclusion, Hawaiian and Puerto Rican annexation, and Philippine conquest—all would keep whiteness very much alive in both the visual and the political economies. But upon the arrival of the massive waves of Irish immigrants in the 1840s, whiteness itself would become newly problematic and, in some quarters, would begin to... 

It is against this backdrop that the history of political whiteness took shape and that the fluidity of certain groups racial identities became apparent. The crosscurrents here are terribly complex. The Mexican War, slavery and Emancipation, Reconstruction, Indian wars, anti-Chinese agitation, Pacific expansion, and popular accounts of Pacific, Asian, and African exploration all kept vividly alive the crucial distinction in American political culture dividing white from nonwhite populations, as did... 

Spaniards hold a cultural prejudice against intoxication, drunkenness being a sort of ethnic boundary attributed to outsiders. In fact, Spaniards derived a sense of superiority over northern Europeans and over the natives they ruled in their colonies because of their "civilized" attitude toward drinking. In colonial Mexico. .. local Spanish officials saw excessive drinking as a custom that supported their view of Mexicans as "perpetual minors," incapable of conforming to Spanish standards of moderation. (Gamella 1995,365)... 

Significant immunogenicity and protection against systemic or nasal challenge with live strains of GAS in mice was observed (Sabharwal et al. 2006) when subjected to subcutaneous and intranasal immunization with GAS CHO conjugated to tetanus toxoid. In parallel, analyses of serum samples and throat cultures from Mexican children revealed an inverse relationship between high serum titers of anti-GAS CHO antibodies and the presence of GAS in the throat. Moreover, no cross-reactivity of anti-GAS CHO antibodies with human tissues or cytoskeletal proteins was observed. 

Despite early passive views on cannabis use in the United States, however, a gradual accumulation of momentum in opposition to marijuana developed after World War I. Much of the antipathy was based on cultural fears relating to cannabis use by Syrians in New York, East Indians in California and, principally, Mexicans in the Southwest. Much of the pressure for federal legislation regulating marijuana arose not from the FBN but from local law enforcement agencies in the South and Southwest who saw it as a link to violent crime presumably committed by Mexican immigrants. 

In this chapter, we summarize the current knowledge of interesting terpenes found in Mexican medicinal plants, with special emphasis on the zoapatle (Montanoa tomentosa), a plant originally called "cihuapahtli." This means woman s medicine, and it was used to assist women during difficult labor because of its specific uterus contraction effect caused by the diterpene active substances. Finally, some aspects of the current use of medicinal plants in different cultural environments will be discussed. 

This chapter summarizes the current knowledge of a small part of the Aztec knowledge concerning some sesqui- and diterpenes from Mexican medicinal plants. New anti-inflammatory drugs are being designed based on the mechanism of action of some of these, and other medicines are still to be developed once are able to elucidate their mechanisms. Finally, the current cultural differences produced by the use and abuse of these plants outside of their original cultural context is discussed. 

HUXTABLE, R., Ethnopharmacology and ethnobotany along the US-Mexican border Potential problems with cross-cultural borrowings ., Proc. West Pharmacol. Soc., 1998,41,259-264. 

Mycological investigations on Teonanacatl, the Mexican hallucinogenic mushrooms part one The history of Teonanacatl, field work and culture. Mycologia 50 (2) 239-61. 

Singer, R. (1958). Mycological investigation on teonanacatl, the Mexican hallucinogenic mushroom. 1 The history of teonanacatl, field work and culture work. Mycologia, 50, 239-261. 

I brought cassettes of Mexican music with us when we drove to Ohio. I rolled my car window down and turned the volume up, taking a certain delight in sending such sounds across fields and into trees—broadcasting my culture, if you will. 

Jenkins JH Conceptions of schizophrenia as a problem of nerves a cross-cultural comparison of Mexican-Americans and Anglo-Americans. Soc Sci Med 26 1233-1243,1988... 

Delve into the Mayan culture and enjoy the rich natural resources of the Mexican Caribbean. Sheltered by the second largest coral barrier reef in the world, Puerto Costa Maya over 20 shore excursions, marine adventures, the pristine beaches of Uvero, and more... 

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