In her new book, Earth Medicines: Ancestral Wisdom, Healing Recipes, and Wellness Rituals from a Curandera (Roost Books; 2021), Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz (aka the Kitchen Curandera) shares her knowledge ...

Among the most vivid memories of my childhood is that one afternoon at my grandma Margarita Preciado's home in Hermosillo, Sonora, when I was about 7 or 8 years old. Sitting on one of the couches in ...

Moving the winds means getting rid of unwanted vibes. Here, learn four ways to do that, according to a curandera, or Mexican healer. Robyn Moreno is a life coach and curandera, which is the Spanish ...

Mexican folk medicine of curanderas. Avila is a curandera, Spanish for healer. In a daylong workshop at San Joaquin Delta College, Avila salved the sustos -- fears -- of people suffering from miseries ...

Para leer este artículo en español, desliza hacia abajo. Curandera, or traditional healer, is a title Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz holds with honor. The indigenous food activist and natural chef works to ...

A familiar term in South Texas, curanderismo is a healing system encompassing the physical and the spiritual that combines aspects of Spanish medicinal methods (dating back to the Moors) with ...

An old woman shuffles into her bedroom , beckoning a little girl and her mother to follow. Inside, the 3-year-old stands before an altar as the woman — a curandera or traditional Latino healer — ...

This is an encore presentation of a previously posted column. This column first appeared Aug. 4, 2008. Oh do not be too exuberant, for as you know, we’ll have to tie down those leaping bones, cramming ...

A curandero, curandera or curandere is a person who has the skill and gift to perform these healing practices. During the colonization of Mesoamerica, most people from Europe spoke Spanish and ...