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A Culture of Healing
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Healing system dedicated to healing
illnesses of body, mind, and spirit
Curandero (male) or curandera
(female) is the practitioner of
curanderismo
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Balance between human and nature
Union of the soul and spirit
How humans fit into the natural
world
Harmony of the "self"
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Estimated five hundred years ago
6 different influences
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Influences: Judeo-Christianity
Altar in a curandero’s workroom
Patient being given a barridawith a crucifix
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Influences: European Medicine
Early Arabic medicineGreek Humoral medicine
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Influences: Medieval European Witchcraft
This type of candle is used to dominate a person under another person's power
Wax figure of a person with hand written petition witchcraft spell brought to the healer to break spell.
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Influences: Indigenous Herbal Lore
Above images from Codex Badiano, first book about Aztec medicinal herbs, composed in 1552
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Influences: Psychic Phenomena
Spiritualist healing session
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Influences: Contemporary Western Medicine
Elena Avila, working curandera and registered nurse
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Material Curandera works with ritual
objects: eggs, crosses and pictures of
saints, herbs, incense, candles, oils,
and dolls
Spiritual Curandera can read cards or
is a medium
Curandera working on mental level is a
psychic healer
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Material Level Curanderismo
Candles, eggs and garlic-- some objects used by curanderos working on the material level
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Spiritual Level Curanderismo
Curandera working as a card reader
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Psychic Level Curanderismo
Utilizing the power of the mind to treat patients
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Psychological issues
Traumatic events
Natural illness
Mal Ojo, “evil eye”
Susto, “magical fright”
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Mal de Ojo
Amulet worn to preventMal ojo
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Susto
Client being swept with basil to cleanse off negative energy and retrieve “lost soul”
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Exists alone as folk medicine or
alongside Western medicine
Continues to thrive as a health
care option primarily in Central
/South America, Mexico, and
Southwest United States
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Curanderismo’s primary strength comes
from its practice of always
incorporating whatever is useful
and available into its treatments,
in an intuitive and creative way