Research Catalog

Title

Healing with herbs and rituals : a Mexican tradition / Eliseo "Cheo" Torres ; edited by Timothy L. Sawyer, Jr.

Author

Torres, Eliseo

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Sawyer, Timothy L. (Timothy Leighton), 1961-

Description

vii, 168 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Plants, Medicinal
• Phytotherapy
• Medicine, Traditional
• Herbal Medicine
• Healers > Mexico
• Healing > Mexico
• Herbs > Therapeutic use > Mexico
• Mexican Americans > Medicine
• Traditional medicine > Mexico
• Southwestern United States
• Mexico

Note

• Includes index.
• This volume is a combination with revisions of two of the author's earlier works entitled Folk healer and Green medicine.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Folk healers and folk healing -- A brief history of curanderismo -- The curandero -- Ailments -- The rituals -- Folk beliefs -- Don Pedrito Jaramillo -- Niño Fidencio -- Teresita -- Modern curanderos -- Fusing traditional and modern medicine -- Further reading pertaining to curanderismo -- Green medicine: traditional Mexican-American herbs and remedies -- Green medicine -- A brief history of green medicine -- Where to get the herbs -- Preparing herbs for use -- A few cautions -- Important terms -- Keeping green medicine alive -- Further reading pertaining to green medicine -- Spanish language listing of plant names -- Glossary of herbs.

ISBN

• 0826339611 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780826339614

LCCN

^^2005025893

OCLC

• 61463691
• SCSB-12476675

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library