Healing with Herbs and Rituals

• Author : Eliseo “Cheo” Torres
• Publisher : UNM Press
• Release Date : 2014-08-15
• ISBN : 9780826339621

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

• Author : Eliseo “Cheo” Torres,Timothy L. Sawyer
• Publisher : UNM Press
• Release Date : 2014-08-15
• ISBN : 9780826336415

Eliseo Torres, known as "Cheo," grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practiced in his home and neighborhood. Later in life, he wanted to know more about the plants and rituals of curanderismo. Torres's story begins with his experiences in the Mexican town of Espinazo, the home of the great curandero El Niño Fidencio (1899-1939), where Torres underwent life-changing spiritual experiences. He introduces us to some of the major figures

• Author : Eliseo Torres
• Publisher : Nieves
• Release Date : 1983
• ISBN : UTEXAS:059173009891924

Traditional Mexican American herbal potions and remedies and their history are explained in an introductory book for the general reader. The importance of curanderismo, or green medicine, in Mexican and Mexican American cultures is explored. A brief history traces the herbal aspects of curanderismo through Mayan and Aztec cultures, the Spanish conquest, and Hippocrates' theory of humors, and finds contributions from many cultures intermixed with native lore. Other chapters discuss where to obtain herbs, preparation methods, and hazards of herb

• Author : Joie Davidow
• Publisher : Touchstone
• Release Date : 1999-10-05
• ISBN : UCSC:32106017919215

A guide to Mexican herbal healing, offers treatments for common ailments, using teas, liniments, compresses, and soothing baths

• Author : Elizabeth de la Portilla
• Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
• Release Date : 2009
• ISBN : 1603440992

Curanderas—traditional healers in Mexican culture—bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence—spiritual and material, modern and pre-modern—dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. Elizabeth de la Portilla writes of the world and practices of San Antonio curanderas. As a scholar, an ethnographer, and a curandera in training, her parallel perspectives uniquely aid readers in understanding this subordinated culture. Retelling the stories various healers have shared, interpreting their answers to her probing questions, and describing the herbs and

• Author : Eliseo Torres
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1753
• ISBN : 1792457685

• Author : Eliseo Torres
• Publisher : Nieves
• Release Date : 1983
• ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023366254

The book explains for the general reader the history and present practice of curanderismo--Mexican American folk healing practices--and gives biographical sketches of three famous nineteenth century folk healers--Don Pedrito Jaramillo, Nino Fidencio, and Teresita Urrea. Characteristics and training of curanderos, or healers, are discussed and the specialties within curanderismo are explained. Eleven common ailments and symptoms treated by curanderos, rituals used, and folk beliefs dealing with everyday occurrences are described. Sketches of the three folk healers illustrate biographical chapters which

• Author : Marianna Appel Kunow
• Publisher : UNM Press
• Release Date : 2012
• ISBN : 9780826328656

Original publication and copyright date: 2003.

• Author : Eliseo Torres,Imanol Miranda
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2017-07-13
• ISBN : 1524936669

• Author : Robert T. Trotter,Juan Antonio Chavira
• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• Release Date : 2011-03-15
• ISBN : 9780820340715

The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply rooted in native Mexican healing techniques. This is the first book to describe the practice from an insider's point of view, based on the authors' three-year apprenticeships with curanderos (healers). Robert T. Trotter and Juan Antonio Chavira present an intimate view of not only how curanderismo is practiced but also how it is learned and passed on as a

• Author : Atava Garcia Swiecicki
• Publisher : Heyday Books
• Release Date : 2022-07-07
• ISBN : 1597145718

A practical guide to understanding and using Mexican healing traditions in everyday life Arranging ofrendas. Brewing pericón into a healing tea. Releasing traumas through baños and limpias. Herbalist and curandera Atava Garcia Swiecicki spent decades gathering this traditional knowledge of curanderismo, Mexican folk healing, which had been marginalized as Chicanx and Latinx Americans assimilated to US culture. She teaches how to follow the path of the curandera, as she herself learned from apprenticing with Mexican curanderas, studying herbal

• Author : Antonio Zavaleta,Alberto Salinas Jr
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release Date : 2009
• ISBN : 9781449000899

"The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College"--T.p.

• Author : Fernando Altamirano
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1904
• ISBN : HARVARD:32044107263139

• Author : Judith Berger
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2019-10-29
• ISBN : 1714154769

This book records a year-long journey into the earth's natural cycles as they unfold in New York City. Each monthly section discusses one herb in detail -- how and where it grows and what it does -- and presents recipes for simple teas, lotions, and foods, along with rituals appropriate to the season that can bring your life back into harmony with the moods of nature. Even in the city, the constant presence of the natural world and the use

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• Release Date : 2012-09-21
• ISBN : 9780486140971

16th-century codex was first herbal and medical text compiled in the New World, with ancient remedies for everything from hiccoughs to gout. Index. New Introduction. Over 180 black-and-white and 38 color illustrations.