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"Home remedies", infusions, massage, the use of plants, animals, insects and minerals for the ancestral remedies remain amazingly alive. As well as the rituals that have powerful results in the psyche of the patients, while mentioning "power plants" that occupy a special place in the ancestral wisdom.

The education system.

The educational system was one of the major pillars of the Anahuac civilization. Although, because of its importance a special chapter on education is provided, we could point out that from the "system" point of view, the ancient Mexican, surely from 1500 BCE, with the appearance of the filtered Olmec culture, already had an education system that systematically reached every child and young society in the most advanced cultures, up to the spaniards arrival.

The educational system is a basic structural element in order to develop a civilization project, since education is the method to produce and reproduce knowledge within a society. Thanks to this system, we can understand the mega projects in the long term of the Anahuac cultures, knowledge centers that took centuries to build, such as Teotihuacan, Palenque, Monte Alban and Xochicalco, among the tens of thousands built in the country.

The education that generated the Anahuac civilization applies not only to the academic aspect, which was taught in the Telpochcalli, Cuicacalli and Calmécac. But education from a deeper point of view. We refer to the philosophical and spiritual spectrum. In fact, the foundations so that the individual can understand himself, family, society, nature and the universe in an integral and comprehensive manner. The relationships that exist between each other. Responsibilities, limits and possibilities. All of this as a whole and over eight thousand years of human development, with its ups and its downs, have given us an "own face and a real heart", as individuals and as a civilization. This immense wealth