Comprensión del En Detalle

Curanderos & chamanes are

• medical doctors with PHDs

• healers/spiritual leaders in rural communities

• nurses

• Another word for primeros auxilios

Colombia has the _____ most biodiversity of plants in the world

• 1st

• 2nd

• 5th

• 10th

Plants become medicine by curanderos y chamanes through

• experiments

• prescription medicine from hosptial

• sacred rites/rituals

• They don't become medicine

Cierto/Falso- In 2017 the Insituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos(similar to the CDC or the IHS in the US) reduced the number of approved medicinal plants

• Cierto

• Falsp

Cierto/Falso- Many plants in Colombia are at risk of extinction, so by approving their medicinal usage, more can be grown & studied in indigenous communities

• Cierto

• Falso

Chuchuguaza se usa para tratar

• la gota (gout)

• reumatismo (arthritis)

• la anemia

• dolor de cabeza

Se usa gualanday para tratar

• dolores de huesos (bone pain)

• afecciones de corazón (heart conditions)

• afecciones de higo (liver conditions)

• várices (varicose veins0

NO se puede usar el ______ de sauco para tratar afecciones bronquiales (lung/pulmonary conditions)

• la hoja (leaf)

• la corteza (the peel)

• la flor (the flower)

• la tierra (the dirt)

La Ciclovía en Bogotá, Colombia is..

• stretch of road for cars only

• stretch of road for walking only

• stretch of road for biking and walking only

• A brand of bicycle

In many parts of Latin America, the social services are ___ and run by _____.

• costly, private hospitals

• free, private hospitals

• free, university hospitals

• costly, university hosptials