The curandero is never involved in child birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living in Timucuy, Yucatan: birth, death and some in-between] Reference

60Today, the word "curandero" brings to mind images of a healer working in long-forgotten traditions, dispensing herbal remedies, and curing curious ailments such as "evil eye" and "susto" by way of magic and ritual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

Many inhabitants will consult the curandero before the doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living in Timucuy, Yucatan: birth, death and some in-between] Reference

He is a curandero also, an extremely religious man and shouldn't be disturbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authentic craft sources] Reference

For two weeks the curandero had sought in vain to divine the source of such misfortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

Fourth, I meet a curandero who reveres her and recognizes me immediately as one of her relatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [GUEST INTERVIEW: LUIS ALBERT URREA & DANIEL OLIVAS] Reference

In 1784, José Antonio Hernández, a Spaniard, was arrested on charges of curandero supersticioso.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

But in the day-to-day world of colonial medicine, a curandero was not so clearly or narrowly defined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

The curandero,on the other hand has little training or technology at his disposal—a few snake powders, maybe.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Bough Breaks] Reference

The curandero, on the other hand has little training or technology at his disposal — a few snake powders, maybe.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Bough Breaks]

The novice could acquire all sorts of medical expertise empirically by working alongside the barber-surgeon, the partera, and the curandero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

It was left for the curandero to work alone, to seek a solution in a stronger source, in some supernatural realm that might break a normal man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

Although Knab had persuaded the curandero to prepare the drug, under absolutely no conditions would the recalcitrant old man actually sample it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

"Well, " said Switters, 'this pyramid-headed curandero from deep in the Amazonian jungle seems to have concluded that light and darkness can merge in a similar fashion on the biomolecular plane, the social plane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

It works to better see where we are, where we are coming from and where we are going, said psychologist Javier Zavala, a self-styled curandero or healer, as he opened an ayahuasca session one recent Saturday night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vision-inducing drug makes new inroads in Peru | Disinformation] Reference

The shrine glorifies a curandero that many believe performed healing miracles.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Antonio News] Reference

64Those with a special calling to cure generally learned their craft under the tutelage of a practicing curandero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

1989 Enfermedad y maleficio: el curandero en el México colonial, México D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

69The pressure is applied while the curandero recites an incantation that summons the fire to aid him in combating the pain of the patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

The curandero also advises the writer to give the child a cup of spearmint or basil tea for the same nine days she is swept with the alum rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brownsville Herald :] Reference

Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College and by curandero Alberto Salinas Jr., contains 190 letters from people seeking help from the curandero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brownsville Herald :] Reference

Pablo Amaringo (1938-2009) trained as a curandero in the Amazon, healing himself and others from the age of ten, but retired in 1977 to become a full-time painter and art teacher at his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ayahuaska's Weblog] Reference

His knowledge of the physiologic and anatomo-pathologic problems of the human body, will enable the physician to make scientific inferences that would be hidden from the common "curandero.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

For six hours he lay immobilized in a specially excavated depression in front of the curandero’s fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

One character has a several-page speech about this topic, ending with his declaration that he doesn’t see doctors any more after a curandero cures his cancer by laying on hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Review of Couch, by Benjamin Parzybok | Live Granades] Reference

63How did one become a curandero?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico] Reference

Ayahuasca Forum, Shamanic healing, Amazon curandero, energy work.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Is agriculture the next big investment thing?] Reference