The following is from The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel , Evelyn Eaton, Quest Books, 1982. I believe it is actual, like the doctoring Sweats and ceremonies of other Medicine Men and Women of many tribes. To treat the symptoms is to deal with the least important part of the problem. They will disappear when the real malady in the Spirit, that which has thrown us out of harmony with the Source of All, is healed, and when that healing filters through our mental, astral, etheric envelopes to the physical body.
Healing takes place on many levels.
Some defy human understanding and yet many of us are led to work in these realms. Most of this work is guided by higher beings and we as humans simply try to stay out of the way to allow the real healing to be channeled unhindered by our egos or limited beliefs and concepts. Much of what I have been taught about healing has come in dreams or in nonverbal ways that don't translate to words. Some of the tools I have been given have been terrifying to me. I wondered why I would be given such tools that I could never allow myself to use.