Artículo completo del libro: Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
PETER: For sixteen years, Cresenciana Rodríguez Nieves, a 43- year -old doctor in the city of Puebla, at the base of the snowcapped Iztaccíhuatl volcano in the central Mexico, has used a wide variety of native plants, animals, and insect in her practice of what a she calls Méxica medicine (above). “ This ” , she says, “ is the medicine practiced here before the Europeans came ” . (She doesn’t like term “ traditional medicine, ” because she regards it as a pejorative term used to dismiss remedies based on centuries of folk experience.) Her expertise as a medicinal doctor has helped her to appreciate the wisdom of, say, treating goiter with stink bugs (they are rich in iodine deficiency). She treats anemia with grasshoppers, rheumatism with beeswax, eye cysts with flies---the range of medical application is enormous, she says. After an impromptu lecture, Cresenciana graciously serves us a delicious lunch of carrot soup and fresh corn tortillas (no bugs) and then sh...