How To Use curandero In A Sentence
- He or she is also a healer, curandero, who practices herbal medicine.
- On those occasions in which relief from a specific affliction was not achieved through home remedies, however, individuals or families might solicit the assistance of a curandero (folk curer) or other type of folk healer.
- Note 85: Nóemi Quezada, Enfermedad y maleficio: el curandero in el México colonial (México: UNAM, 1989), p. 107; Ruiz de Alarcón, p. 7; see also Serge Gruzinski's comments on sources and methodology in The Conquest of Mexico, pp. 305 – 8. back Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
- Consider this description of a scholar studying curanderos, native healers who provide Hispanic communities with medical advice, prescriptions, and treatments.
- Both are common practices in Latin America, where prescription-only medications can easily be bought without a prescription, and people tend to get their herbal medicine from informal providers, like friends or the curandero.
- Note 12: Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran, Medicina y magia: El proceso de aculturación en la estructura colonial (México: Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1963); Neomí Quezada, Enfermedad y malefación, el curandero en el México colonial (México: UNAM, 1989). back Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
- The novice could acquire all sorts of medical expertise empirically by working alongside the barber-surgeon, the partera, and the curandero. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
- The word fluttered up from somewhere inside him, and with it he felt the breath of the curandero’s fan. FALSE MERMAID
- Such practitioners, known as curanderos, use herb teas and poultices, traditional exercises, incantations, and magical touching to heal.
- 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. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
