Introduction
In 1764, a formal publication was issued about Spain's acquisition of Louisiana from France. In 1765, the first group of almost 200 Acadians was led by Joseph Broussard into a Bayou Teche area, below current San Martinville, Louisiana. The first Spanish governor of Louisiana was Antonio de Ulloa in 1768.
For almost four decades, from 1763 to 1802, Spain ruled Louisiana and returned it to France for a few months until it was transferred in 1803 to the United States by the Louisiana acquisition.
History
The Iberian Peninsula's folk medicine has been maintained by the oral passing on of information and adapted for the direct experience of various pathologies and remedies.
A large number of local peasants have demonstrated practical and wide-ranging understanding about names and uses of plants in Andalusia, Aragonia, Catalonia, Murcia or Valencia.
In scenarios where there was no medical advice, specific disease categories were deemed insufficient for both diagnosis and treatment in the formal educational health system; these were counseled with healers, who very frequently advise herbal remedies.
Much of popular recipes can trace the influence of the Ancient Greco-Roman and Arab treatises of medicine and herbals. The parallelism in the medicinal use of herbs and spices, which were among the panaceas in Arab Spain, is particularly relevant.
In the XIIth century, this medieval tradition explained the connections the links between food and medicine through synonymization/correspondence of medicinal products, which were both opposed to poisons or substances that produced serious organism changes after digestion.
The traditional Mediterranean health care system encompasses several subsystems, from the extensive repertoires of herbal domestic wives to the specialist practice of healers and herbalists. The food plants are used throughout the system.
In general, herbalists rarely eat unusual parts of the edible plants and species. More often than not, the same stall holder displays many herbs and spices for culinary purposes among medicinal species.
Over the centuries and until recently, ordinary peasant diets in Mediterranean Spain depended heavily on local food and were very often made up of bread, potatoes, or cornflour, with less frequent cod, sardines, or bacon.
Vegetables were scarce, only available from the irrigated fields that were limited to the valleys. In some places, pulses were added to the diet, and some uncommon fruits were added.
In the local traditional health care system, the use of plant foods as medicines in Mediterranean Spain is relevant, since about 25 percent of medicinal taxa are food plants or spices.
Spanish Settlers
The Spanish expeditions included healers and doctors who have practiced humoral medicine based on Galen and Avicennia's works.
These healers were well versed in both the war and the care of the wounds that were produced. While they were traveling, Spanish botanists and naturalists drew and described the "New World" exotic plant and animal life while historians chronicled the expedition's exploits and adventures in journals.
Intense, almost obsessive, Christian religious beliefs in Europe at this time were interwoven with humoral medicine to form a medical system that dominated the Old World. Those doctrines joined Native American herbal practices in the "New World" to create the unmistakable foundations of Southern Folk Medicine.
Spain had already conquered Hispaniola, Panama, and Cuba when, in 1526, Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon led 600 Spanish colonists and their African slaves to settle on the shores of a bay in South Carolina, not far away from where, 80 years later, the English would establish Jamestown.
France, Spain, and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris in 1763, ending the war between France and India.
For the Spaniards, Louisiana served as a generously subsidized military colony, safeguarding lucrative Mexican mines from British North America's ambitions, which now extended west as far as the Mississippi River.
The colony was immense and sparsely occupied when Spain bequeathed Louisiana.
Native knowledge of the use of medicinal and food plants was of such great importance for early settlers that survival would have been impossible without direct connections to it in the "New World."
Folk healers from Southern and American countries, Thomsonians, and PhysioMedical and Eclectic doctors have documented their use from the earliest days to the present.
As treatments for seasonings adaptations, many traditional herbal remedies developed. Seasoning is the process of physical adaptation or acclimatization to the elements of a new climate. These elements include water, soil, sun's strength, and other factors of the natural environment.
Those who were not natives of a specific territory were expected to endure suffering because of their imprudence.
Newcomers have struggled through a phase that they considered to be pressing and dangerous, the changes that learned to adapt their bodies to a new climate and terrain.
Seasoning diseases were widely acknowledged, and disease courses were considered the price people would pay to deal with their new locations.
The diseases that struck were often unfamiliar, causing fever, chills, and diarrhea, and other symptoms they had no previous experience with.
As treatments for seasonings adaptations, many traditional herbal remedies developed. Seasoning is the process of physical adaptation or acclimatization to the elements of a new climate. These elements include water, soil, sun's strength, and other factors of the natural environment.
Those who were not natives of a specific territory were expected to endure suffering because of their imprudence.
Newcomers have struggled through a phase that they considered to be pressing and dangerous, the changes that learned to adapt their bodies to a new climate and terrain.
Seasoning diseases were widely acknowledged, and disease courses were considered the price people would pay to deal with their new locations.
The diseases that struck were often unfamiliar, causing fever, chills, and diarrhea, and other symptoms they had no previous experience with.
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