Because of Asia’s diverse population, Asian Americans can go about treating health and illness a few ways. According to Spector in Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness, a big concept of health is being in “a state of spiritual and physical harmony with nature” (2017).Respond to this post.

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Chapter 10: Because of Asia’s diverse population, Asian Americans can go about treating health and illness a few ways. According to Spector in Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness, a big concept of health is being in “a state of spiritual and physical harmony with nature” (2017). Especially in China, the physician was seen to prevent illness. Another way they approach health is that the “foundation rests in the religion and philosophy of Taoism” (Spector, 2017). Taiosm has influenced folk and national belief and is a religion and philosophy from ancient China.. National Geographic says that “Taoism teaches that all living creatures ought to live in a state of harmony with the universe, and the energy found in it” (para. 3). Lastly, the balance of Yin and Yang, or a harmonious balance, is used by Asian populations to address health. Illness on the other hand is the disruption of any of these harmonies in nature, mainly the yin and yang.

Chapter 11: Just like the Asian populations and cultures, the Black or African American societies also determine health and illness as the harmony and disharmony of the body, mind and spirit. Some ways of maintaining that health would include “proper diet, hot breakfast, rest, clean environment, and laxatives to keep bowels open (Spector, 2017). Many African cultures protect their health by using sulfur and molasses, asafetida, which is worn around the neck, and cod liver oil.

Chapter 12: Hispanics approach health as a “result of good luck, reward for good behavior, or as a gift from God.” They also use the “balance of the four humors, blood, yellow bile, phlegm, and black bile, which are determined by different parts of the body” (Spector, 2017). Illness could be seen as the complete opposite, an imbalance in a person’s body, or as punishment meted out for wrongdoing. They may treat illnesses differently, for example “hot illness is treated with a “cold” substance, and cold illness with a “hot” substance, however this is not a physical measurable temperature” (Spector, 2017). Many Hispanic-Americans also believe in witchcraft or possession, or even emotional states.

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