Brief description of Mexican medicine

Abstract

Within the Mexica culture, medicine had a magical-religious character, there was a division according to the medical functions performed and a hierarchy. Physicians were called ticitl, and were considered healers, magicians and priests. The Mexica believed that the health of a man was given thanks to the balance between cold and heat and when this balance was broken, illness appeared. This work deals with three aspects in which the medical arts were divided: religion, magic and empirical knowledge. The knowledge was passed orally, inherited from father to son, and was later captured in the codices.