Curanderos

Word CURANDEROS
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A traditional Central American healer.

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Any physician has a perfect right to prescribe these drugs, as have also the "curanderos" and even the laity, with this difference, however, that the physician is capable of observing results and guiding himself by the physiologic action of the drugs. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

The "curanderos" know a great deal concerning these uses, but become very reticent as soon as they are questioned about them. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

Hewson includes portraits of "curanderos" (healers) and paintings of the myths and legends of the jungle centered around plant-healing shamanism.

In other cultures, there are other types of healers (such as curanderos) and how our ethics may apply to them is unclear. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"curanderos," what uses they make of their plants. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

This three day event features workshops given by curanderos (native healers), herbalists, and other native specialists in various traditional practices and beliefs involving alternative or traditional medicine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jacinto de la Serna, writing about idolatry in the seventeenth century, noted that many of the indigenous curanderos he observed had some form of physical anomaly: ❋ Unknown (2008)

The old man told me that his youngest son was presently going to the university in Mexico City because Carlos Esparza, the greatest of all curanderos, had come through their village half a dozen years ago, encouraging the youth to learn the ways of the Europeans. ❋ Victor Villaseñor (2010)

In the latter case, illness could manifest itself in the most bizarre forms: Inquisitional documents show that curanderos extracted such things as insects and worms, strangely colored human and animal hairs, or small sticks and stones. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Note 103: See Aguirre Beltrán and Quezada's studies of curanderos in New Spain. back ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Quejas del doctor don José Sánchez Camaño sobre los perjuicios que causan los curanderos que se consienten en el Valle de Santiago, intendencia de Santiago," cited in John Tate Lanning, "The Illict Practice of Medicine in the Spanish Empire of American," in Homenaje a Don José María de la Peña y Camara (Madrid: Ediciones José Porrúa Turanzas, 1969), p. 161. back ❋ Unknown (2008)

Treatment under the guidance of curanderos (shamans) or unlicensed individuals who call themselves "doctors" is more common, especially in regions lacking legitimate health care professionals. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Note 87: Lanning, The Royal Protomedicato, p. 239; see also Viesca Treviño, "Curanderismo in Mexico and Guatemala," for a succinct introduction on curanderos in the colonial period. back ❋ Unknown (2008)

After the ceremony, many of the spectators joined the shamans, curanderos and dancers on the plaza to receive the blessing of the priests, who offered copal incense and sacred plants. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the colonial curanderos, at least those that operated within the gaze of the Church, practiced a medicine that has sometimes been described by modern researchers as medicina mestiza — medicine of the casta groups that had their origins in the conquest and whose numbers began to swell in the eighteenth century. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1795, for example, a surgeon named José Sánchez Camaño, who had been practicing for two months in the Valle de Santiago, located in the intendancy of Guanajuato, protested that a horde of curanderos, bleeders, and old women were allowed to practice freely. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Spanish and creole groups of New Spain also sought out the specialized services of curanderos. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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