Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad de Cuenca

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    Cosmovisión andina relacionada al uso de plantas medicinales, Sayausí – Cuenca 2016
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2018-06) Oñate Álvarez, Pedro Andrés; Ordóñez Vélez, Christian Giovanny; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Angulo Rosero, Aydeé Narcisa
    Despite the urbanization of the last 20 years, Sayausí still maintains ancestral Andean customs such as the use of medicinal plants, a preventive and therapeutic resource in health. Objetive: To determinate the principles of the Andean worldview and relate them to the management of medicinal plants in Sayausí. Method: It is a qualitative descriptive study of a narrative type with an intercultural approach. The use of medical plants was investigated under the postulates of the Andean worldwide. Five wise men of the ancestral medicine of the Sayausí parish were interviewed during the months of July and August in 2015. The theoretical basis for the analysis of the data: the narrative design, generating concepts and interpretations from the information obtained from the wise men. The techniques used were interviews. The Instruments were forms with open questions, recordings and photographs. The interviews were written using citations, codes and memos, which were processed with the Atlas program. The main categories were grouped according to taxonomies; the information was complemented with tables and figures. Results: The Andean sages explained in their own words the principles: relationality, reciprocity, correspondence, and complementarity. In its rationality, everything worked as a holistic process, involving all the components of the universe. To heal with plants was a true ritual, including principles, plants, body and spirit. The plants had three main functions: healing, feeding and a sacred element. The ways to classify the plants were: gender, shape, color, and thermal state. The herb harvest, preparation and administration were the three stages of the healing process Conclusions: The Andean sages from Sayausí parish applied the principles of the Andean worldview both in practicing healing with medicinal plants and activities of their daily lives.
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    Ensayo clínico no aleatorizado del efecto de la acupuntura sobre la calidad de vida en pacientes con rinitis alérgica. Centro de Acupuntura - Universidad de Cuenca. 2018
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2018-12) Contreras Sinchi, Mónica Alexandra; Benalcázar Rodríguez, Silvana Maritza; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
    Background: Allergic rhinitis is a chronic pathology that affects the physical, emotional and social environment of patients. Acupuncture is an alternative therapy to control your symptoms and improve patient’s quality of life. Objetive: To determine the effect of Acupuncture on the quality of life in patients with allergic rhinitis in the Acupuncture Center of the University of Cuenca. 2018 Method: It is a quasi-experimental study. About 90 people participated in which 3 applications of the Mini Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (RQLQ) were performed, for the measurement of the quality of life after the three sessions of acupuncture. SPSS 15 MB was used to process the information. The bioethical foundations were applied for research with human beings. Results: The mean age was 34.62 years with SD ± 13.94, with predominance of women with 65.6%, urban residence with 74.4%. 78.9% had a family history of allergy. Nasal congestion (93.3%) was the most frequent symptom of allergic rhinitis. There was a statistically significant relationship between acupuncture therapy and quality of life in relation to the first (Wilcoxon p = 0.00) and second measurement (Student's T p = 0.00, 95% CI: -1.73 and -1.36) of the mini RQLQ questionnaire after acupuncture therapy. Conclusions: Acupuncture led to improvement quality of life in patients with Allergic Rhinitis.
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    Estudio cualitativo sobre el malestar: perspectivas de la medicina tradicional en Cuenca, El Tambo y Saraguro - Ecuador
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2017-12) Angulo Rosero, Aydeé Narcisa; Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Arévalo Peláez, Carlos Eduardo; Rojas Reyes, Rosendo Iván; Quizhpi Merchán, Carmita Victoria; Mosquera Vallejo, Lorena Elizabeth; Quispe Bolaños, Marcelo
    Antecedents and objective: The Andean cosmo-vision looks at the reality according to its paradigms, laws and principles based on the observation of nature and an analogical reasoning; the discomfort or disease has been understood as the imbalance of the harmony of being with oneself, with the family, with nature and with the cosmos. Therefore, the present study aims to understand the meanings and senses of the Kichwa malaise of the sages of ancestral medicine. Methodology: a qualitative, post-positivist phenomenological study of the discomfort was carried out from the perspective of traditional medicine with men and women of Andean wisdom from the city of Cuenca, El Tambo and Saraguro. A snowball sampling was used and for convenience. The interviews were recorded and transcribed literally. The data was analyzed with the Atlas program using content analysis Results: ancestral medicine for disease and health are unique concepts in which refer to a state of the human being and not only to the state of organs or isolated parts of the body. Important elements of discomfort are pain and suffering. Discomfort is shared, sufferings are communal and the healing of someone is also the healing of others. The discomfort born in the coexistence that is always communal, the discomfort of others is also the discomfort of each one. Conclusions: The discomfort in the Kichwa communities of Cuenca, El Tambo and Saraguro is caused by the disconnection or imbalance with oneself, with others, with nature and with the supernatural. The discomfort can be healed with the intermediation of the Yachaks or healers through different methods or elements, which constitutes a medicine different from conventional one whose approach is of the biochemical - molecular type.
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    La lógica de los mundos y la cosmovisión andina
    (Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, 2016-09) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Angulo Rosero, Aydee Narcisa; Rojas Reyes, Rosendo Iván; Contento Minga, Lidia Esther; Drexler, Josef
    This paper is a review of conceptual elements of the Andean worldview, from the philosophy of logic of worlds. It is a reflection that proposes a dialectical analysis of Andean rationality and health, from the partial connections, the double bond and multiculturalism
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    Percepciones de los sanadores andinos de Saraguro sobre la hibridación en salud y la influencia de la cultura occidental
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2018-11) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Angulo Rosero, Aydée Narcisa; Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Arévalo Peláez, Carlos Eduardo; Rojas Reyes, Rosendo Ivan; Quizhpi Merchán, Carmita Victoria; Mosquera Vallejo, Lorena Elizabeth; Quishpe Bolaños, Jorge Marcelo
    The cultural hybridization in health allows to recognize diverse practices that coexist in the same space and time, a process that is fulfilled in Saraguro, county of the South-Ecuadorian Andes with an indigenous and mixed ethnic population with health experiences that respond to different rationalities. Objetive: Analyzing the conceptions of Saraguro healers with respect to health hybridization. Method: The present is a qualitative-interpretative study, with interviews to wise people of the place; the worked categories are: Hybridization, conceptualization and hybrid reality, to which the integration challenge was added. The interviews were recorded and then transcribed to word for processing, the Atlas.ti program was used. The triangulation was carried out with a university expert in ancestral medicine subjects and the bibliography consulted. Results: The healers of Saraguro keep their ancestral worldview in the phenomena of health-disease, in some practices expressions of other cultures coexist, this hybridization in health shows Andean knowledge with elements of Western medicine and religious order. Conclusions: In Saraguro the Ancestral Medicine is still valid through the healers, wise in healing according to the Andean cosmovision. The Andean healers keep their practice according to the Andean conceptions of the health-disease process. Ancestral health practices undergo a process of hybridization between the ancestral and the Western as well as religious elements