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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is Decolonizing Alternative Medicine, a series dedicated to elevating the work of healers, medicine workers, and herbalists from traditions and cultures that span the globe. Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz ...

A Big Read program titled "Curandera and Folk Healers" will be presented 7 p.m. Friday by the Norman Public Library at the Native Roots Market, 132 Main St. The program will feature presentations by a ...

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 ...