Everything we know and do to maintain good health and to treat people when they are unhealthy.
What is medicine?
Anything that helps restore the body to a healthy state.
What is a remedy?
The basic building blocks of life.
What are cells?
Includes your heart, blookd, and blood vessels.
What is your circulatory system?
The chemicals that help break down food into nutrients.
What are enzymes?
This view sees the body and the person as one whole being.
What is holistic?
Sometimes boiled in water to make tea.
What are plants?
Groups of similar cells.
What are tissues?
The movement of blood around your body.
What is circulation?
The system that breaks down food so that your body can absorb nutrients.
What is your digestive system?
Used by some First Nations to teach.
What is the medicine wheel?
What is a diet?
Cells and tissues make up.
What are organs?
An organ the size of your fist.
What is your heart?
Oxygen, nutrients. and water are the ___________ that your body needs.
What is fuel?
The four aspects of the human being include mental, spiritual, emotional and this last one.
What is physical?
These include washing your hands, wearing a bike helmet, and wearing sunscreen.
What are healthy habits?
The process of breathing which brings in oxygen and takes carbon dioxide out of the body.
What is respiration?
These blood vessels carry your blood away from your heart.
What are arteries?
The brain, spinal cord, and nerves make up this system.
What is your nervous system?
The name given to a First Nations teacher.
What is an Elder?
Can recommend remedies when you are not feeling well.
Who are doctors?
Includes your nose, mouth, throat, trachea, and lungs.
What is your respiratory system?
The wave of blood that pushes against your arteries and makes them a little larger as it passes.
What is your pulse?
Cells in your nose that sense smells.
What are receptors?