Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g165Ecu17279; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:14:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:14:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.20020205225749.00b3ce00@mail.earthlink.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: ACRO <acrochicago@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:3551] responses to stroke patients X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Status: O Content-Length: 1384 Lines: 35 I just heard from a friend that in some parts of China a stroke patient would be given the following treatments before proper medical help could reach the patient. The patient's finger tips will be needled and squeezed for one or two drops of blood. Then the patient's ears will be pulled until red and needle again for a drop of blood. The idea is to release the pressure build up by the clog. Is there any medical ground in this folk belief? At 09:54 PM 2/5/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I'm from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem and am helping start a >teacher-training program in Chiapas, Mexico. In rural isolated towns >autonomous (almost like home schooling) schools in the Tierra y Libertad >district have developed to teach primarily indigenous Mayan children. >The problems: 1) the teachers only have a 3-4th grade education and thus >need education methodology materials, and 2) they don't have any >textbooks from which to teach--especially on hygiene and basic health >education. > >Does anyone have any books (or know of where I can get any) for teachers >whose first language is Spanish? Where the materials and the teaching >aids and everything is in Spanish? > >Let me know if you have any ideas where I could find these materials or >find publishers who will provide complementary copies etc...... > > >Thanks, >Lauren Carruth >carrle02@wfu.edu
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