PubMed · 2628763
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K A Pickering. 1989. Dampdusting--a religious rite?. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2628763/
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The concept of culture is closely interwoven with the values espoused by a community. Culture is a deep structure that finds expression in people's knowledge, beliefs, convictions, morals, and laws. A few possible ways of approaching the culture of nursing are provided by rituals, gender and power.
Poppies were widely used during antiquity as a source of food, therapeutics, and poisons. It is likely that the alimentary value of poppy seeds was known in the Neolithic age, and there is some evidence that the neuropsychopharmacological effects of poppy juice were exploited during the Minoan civilization in the eastern Mediterranean basin. The Minoan civilization dates the attribution to poppies of symbolic meanings connected with rites of agricultural fertility. The persistence throughout antiquity of this symbolism is testified by literary and iconographic evidence of the attribution of poppies to goddesses of fertility, such as Demeter, Aphrodite, and Ceres.
Healing routines and rituals have been an essential part of life since time in memorial. Rather than dismiss modern healing rituals because, in many instances, they appear to have no empirically proven manifest function, an argument is proposed in defence of routine and ritual, suggesting that there is an urgent need to explore their meaning or latent function.