From: Identifying health care access barriers in southern rural Ecuador
Variable | Treatment Optionsa |
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Medical Condition | |
Cut hand | Anti-inflammatory pill, OTC |
Chamomile tea (externally applied) | |
Cut leg | Chamomile tea (externally applied) |
Rubbing alcohol (externally applied) | |
Pain medication, prescribed | |
Tetanus injection | |
Hospital-administered medication to prevent infection | |
Influenza | Orange juice, hot |
Lemonade | |
Quemado | |
Alcohol (ingested) | |
Guichingue plant seed, flower of Tilo plant, lemon juice, and honey in boiling water (ingested) | |
Sangorache (amaranth flower) juice or tea with lemon | |
Tea from Llantén plant | |
Mortiño berries (blue berries) | |
Singripal pill, OTC | |
Coffee with liquor | |
Gastritis | Chamomile tea (ingested) |
Buscapina (ingested) | |
Aspirin | |
OTC medications | |
Alcohol (ingested) | |
Achotillo fruit in boiled water | |
Diabetes mellitus | Aspirin |
Modifying diet | |
Hypertension | Anti-hypertensive pills (undefined) |
Hypercholesterolemia | Prescribed medications (undefined) |
Hernia | Surgery |
Dengue | Prescribed medications (undefined) |
Yerbatera healer injections (undefined) | |
Kidney stone/ dehydration | Surgery |
Hydration | |
Prescribed medications (undefined) | |
Myroxylon balsamum/ Chaquino plant stem in boiled water, allowed to cool | |
Body/ back pain | Stop heavy lifting |
Prescribed medications (undefined) | |
Herbal tea (undefined) | |
Swimming | |
Alcohol (ingested) | |
Shower | |
Therapy exercises | |
Anti-inflammatory pills, OTC and prescribed | |
Rest | |
Curandera healer | |
Menthol | |
Headache | Prescribed medication |
FinalÃn pill, OTC | |
Common cold | OTC medications |
Lemonade, hot | |
Tea from Llantén plant | |
Sugar cane | |
Mortiño berries | |
Buscapina pill with oregano | |
Moshquera with oregano | |
Quemado | |
Sangorache juice or tea with lemon | |
Gout | Cucumbers |
Avoid red meat | |
Medication, in hospital | |
Prescribed medication | |
OTC medication | |
Side effects of spreading insecticide | Warm shower |
Rest | |
Eat a meal | |
Sangorache juice or tea | |
Thyroid cancer | Thyroidectomy followed by levothyroxine and chemotherapy |
Appendicitis | Appendectomy |
Fever | OTC medication |
Sangorache juice or tea with lemon | |
Tea from Llantén plant | |
Mortiño berries | |
Pneumonia | Prescribed amoxicillin and paracetamol |