Mapuche Indians and Coronavirus
Although the Mapuche indigenous people represent the original caste of the Chilean people, they have historically been marginalized by the dominant Chilean society, to the point of being dispossessed of their lands, lifestyles, and medicinal customs inherited from their ancestors.
Fig. 2 The Mapuche people have historically been dispossessed of their lands, lifestyles, and medicinal customs inherited from their ancestors. Image of public domain, Author: Falco, 2015
However, it should be emphasized that the Mapuche people have tried to obtain a space in Chilean society, initiating open conflicts with the governments of the time in different periods of time, in the search to demand their participation, protagonism, revitalization of lifestyles and medicinal customs inherited from their ancestors.
However, even though the conflicts that the Mapuche people have caused to demand respect for their culture are not without contradictions, it should be noted that since the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, everything took a turn in favor of the Mapuche, since the world has focused its attention on the Mapuche medicinal culture, because the Mapuche Indians have historically used a plant species of medicinal interest that hides the fundamental ingredient for the vaccine against coronavirus.
Fig. 3 The organographic and reproductive structures of Quillaja saponaria contain phytometabolites that enhance immune responses to Coronavirus vaccines.Image of public domain, Author: Dick Culber, 2008
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It is the plant species Quillaja saponaria, a plant ancestrally used by the Mapuche people to cure all kinds of diseases associated with stomach disorders and respiratory ailments, and that today the scientific community has proven that it has essential phytometabolites (plant saponins) or biomolecules with the ability to enhance the immune responses of vaccines against Coronavirus.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES CONSULTED:
[1] Blasco L Vacuna Novavax contra la covid-19: el árbol mapuche que alberga un ingrediente "clave" para combatir la pandemia. Article: Online access
[2] Millalen P., Millalen H., and Millalen A COVID-19 and Indigenous peoples in Chile: vulnerability to contagion and mortality. Article: Online access
OBSERVATION
It seems Mapuche medicinal culture helped in this covid-19 paandemic. It is very interesting topoic. We have Rathva people here in gujrat who still living in wild and depends on the natural things.
Hi @luckyali
That's right, note that many indigenous cultures took a leading role in the pandemic, this reveals that under no circumstances should we move away from our roots.
Greetings @lupafilotaxia, very interesting your publication since most people who contract COVID-19, do not have the economic resources to cover the medical expenses that this disease generates, many people cling to natural medicines as an alternative to get out of this terrible and deadly disease.
Greetings @carlir
Certainly this kind of advantages provided to us by nature to a great extent serves as a relief for people who do not have access to vaccines or medical supplies to afford the high costs of anti covid-19 treatments.
Warm greetings and blessings to the little ones at home, be well.
Very interesting how ancient cultures use natural medicine as a resource to heal.And in this sense, we must respect their legacy, their lands and their culture, since all this should be considered the heritage of humanity.
We must protect and promote the care of these cultures, their values and their lands because it is thanks to them that our scientists are finding solutions to the problem of the pandemic.
Greetings @reinaldoverdu
So is the ancestral cultures keep valuable information that can be used in these times of modernity, without creating hostile scenarios with the aboriginal peoples.
Best regards, be well.
Hello friend, the truth is that I did not know about these people, I'm glad they have already been able to find a space in society, I think people get carried away by appearances sometimes and it is not until they are interested in something that they end up giving in, this world is full of interest. But in spite of everything there was a happy ending. Greetings!
Greetings @franyeligonzalez
The daily life of the Mapuche people is a constant conflict for the recovery of their spaces and customs, this because they are still living hostile scenarios with the Chilean government, however, the Mapuche Indians recently began to be given a better treatment in Chile since the World Health Organization began to investigate the medicinal culture of the Mapuche.
Best regards, be well.
Hello @lupafilotaxia.
It is important for the history of the Mapuche that science notes the importance of this plant for vaccines, but at the same time accepts the cultural and ancestral importance of this ethnic group, since they already used this plant.
Greetings dear professor @carlos84
No doubt knowing the history, lifestyles and medicinal customs of native peoples, not only provides us with ancestral information but also valuable data such as this one that the WHO found in this medicinal species used by the Mapuche and that acts by enhancing the effect of vaccines against covid-19.
Best regards, be well.