Healing with herbs and rituals
Subtitle: a Mexican tradition
By: Eliseo "Cheo" Torres ; edited by Timothy L. Sawyer, Jr.
Contributors: Torres, Eliseo.; Torres, Eliseo.; Sawyer, Timothy L. 1961-
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780826339614
Subjects: Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Mexico; Traditional medicine -- Mexico; Mexican Americans -- Medicine; Healers -- Mexico; Healing -- Mexico
Description: Healing with Herbs and Rituals is an herbal remedy-based understanding of curanderismo and the practice of yerberas, or herbalists, as found in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. Part One, "Folk Healers and Folk Healing," focuses on individual healers and their procedures. Part Two, "Green Medicine: Traditional Mexican-American Herbs and Remedies," details traditional Mexican-American herbs and cures. These remedies are the product of centuries of experience in Mexico, heavily influenced by the Moors, Judeo-Christians, and Aztecs, and include everyday items such as lemon, egg, fire, aromatic oil, and prepared water. Symbolic objects such as keys, candles, brooms, and Trouble Dolls are also used. Dedicated, in part, to curanderos throughout Mexico and the American Southwest, Healing with Herbs and Rituals shows us these practitioners are humble, sincere people who have given themselves to improving lives for many decades. Today's holistic health movement has rediscovered the timeless merits of the curanderos' uses of medicinal plants, rituals, and practical advice.
Notes: This volume is a combination with revisions of two of the author's earlier works entitled Folk healer and Green medicine.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Folk healers and folk healing; title: A brief history of curanderismo; title: The curandero; title: Ailments; title: The rituals; title: Folk beliefs; title: Don Pedrito Jaramillo; title: Niño Fidencio; title: Teresita; title: Modern curanderos; title: Fusing traditional and modern medicine; title: Further reading pertaining to curanderismo; title: Green medicine: traditional Mexican-American herbs and remedies; title: Green medicine; title: A brief history of green medicine; title: Where to get the herbs; title: Preparing herbs for use; title: A few cautions; title: Important terms; title: Keeping green medicine alive; title: Further reading pertaining to green medicine; title: Spanish language listing of plant names; title: Glossary of herbs.