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& Answers {Grade A } 100% Correct
Florida State College
Each culture has its own healers who usually:
A) speak at least two languages.
B) own and operate specialty community clinics.
C) cost less than traditional or biomedical providers.
D) recommend folk practices that are dangerous. - correct answer Each culture has
its own healers who usually:
A) speak at least two languages.
Feedback: INCORRECT
Most healers speak the person's native tongue.
,B) own and operate specialty community clinics.
Feedback: INCORRECT
Most healers make house calls.
*C) cost less than traditional or biomedical providers.*
*Feedback: CORRECT*
Most healers cost significantly less than healers practicing in the biomedical or
scientific health care system.
D) recommend folk practices that are dangerous.
Feedback: INCORRECT
Most of health practices used by folk healers are not dangerous and are usually
harmless.
While evaluating the health history, the nurse determines that the patient
subscribes to the hot/cold theory of health. Which of the following will most likely
describe this patient's view of wellness?
,A) Good is hot.
B) Evil is hot.
C) The humors must be balanced.
D) The phlegm will be replaced with dryness. - correct answer While evaluating the
health history, the nurse determines that the patient subscribes to the hot/cold
theory of health. Which of the following will most likely describe this patient's view
of wellness?
A) Good is hot.
Feedback: INCORRECT
Beverages, foods, herbs, medicines, and diseases are classified as hot or cold
according to their perceived effects on the body, not on their physical
characteristics.
B) Evil is hot.
Feedback: INCORRECT
, Beverages, foods, herbs, medicines, and diseases are classified as hot or cold
according to their perceived effects on the body, not on their physical
characteristics.
*C) The humors must be balanced.*
*Feedback: CORRECT*
The hot/cold theory of health is based on humoral theory; the treatment of disease
is based on the balance of the humors.
D) The phlegm will be replaced with dryness.
Feedback: INCORRECT
The four humors of the body include the blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile;
the humors regulate basic bodily functions and are described in terms of
temperature, dryness, and moisture. The treatment of disease consists of adding or
subtracting cold, heat, dryness, or wetness to restore the balance of the humors.