A family member or folk healer often treats susto using magico-religious techniques (Rubel 1960) in which the soul is returned to the body, or through ethnopharmacological techniques in which susto is cured by taking indigenous medications (Trotter 1982).
Chamomile/manzanilla is one of the most common natural aids for anxiety and mild depression in the Mexican culture and is thought by many to be a great sleep aid.
Odd comes from the Old Norse word oddi, meaning "point of land." Points of land so designated in Old Norse being roughly triangular, oddi was over time generalized to mean "triangle." Since a point of land can be seen as the apex, or tip, of a triangle, with the other two angles forming a pair at the base, the word ...