I recently had a huge discovery on this topic
Guess what? The medicine men are still around, and these medicines are all over Mexico, and they work.
If the little store does not have what you need, there are many many many larger stores that are specifically dedicated to the original herbal medical cures, and also there are medicine men in the streets in the center of town that also sell these cures in droves, and I mean you can't miss them, and I just thought all this time they were selling traditional spices. Nope, the real cures, the original cures, the stuff that got copied and sold in pill form for BIG BUCKS is all here, on main street Mexico.Figure that! And you know, I can certainly consult all of these stores and medicine men, find out what does what, and publish it all. I think I will.
It at least used to be a well known fact that almost ALL modern medicines are based on herbal cures from the Aztec, Inca, and Mayan indian civilizations. Western scientists knew they had extremely good medical technology based on plants. But you cannot patent a plant, and therefore cannot scam the public for huge profits off of plants. So they analyzed what was in the plants and came up with synthetically manufactured chemical equivalents which in most cases did the job, but usually did not work as well as the original natural formulations. They then gave the synthetic versions names they figured would work well for marketing, called them drugs, put a patent on the manufacturing process and restricted access via a "doctor" based prescription paywall.
I knew this was the case ever since grade school, where this was part of even a grade 8 education in the old school, but figured I'd never have a way to find out what was in the original formulations. But this changed overnight. I came across a Mayan medical vendor that has ALL the formulations, hundreds of them, along with full documentation of exactly what is in each of the formulations, and what problems each formulation will treat, as well as complete availability of all formulations for photographing in their natural form
Mayan/Aztec Medicine series finally started.
These will eventually get their own section on this web site, this will be a long term project that will continue until everything is covered, and the topic is massive.