The crisis of healthy fruits as a determinant factor of the “revolt of the comuneros”

Abstract

The paper analyses the traditional speeches and imaginaries on the Revolution of the Communards in Colombia and contrasts it with sociocultural analysis and etiopathological descriptions of two illustrated parish priests and medical physicist of the eighteenth century in New Granada, in order to demonstrate as determinants of popular revolt of 1781, the monopolistic and taxation difficulties to access herbs, fruits and popular beverages considered medicinal and healthy, as well as sources of environmental welfare and socio-economic prosperity of the poorest.[Pérez- Pinzón LR. The crisis of healthy fruits as a determinant factor of the “revolt of the comuneros”. MedUNAB 2014; 17(1): 30-37]