Aztec Indian healers/curanderos In Mexico City Preforming a Ritual Limpia

Curanderos, traditional folk healers or shamans, respected members of the community, who are used for curing physical and spiritual illnesses. They use herbs and other natural remedies, but their primary method of healing is the supernatural. This is because they believe that the cause of many illnesses are lost malevolent spirits, a lesson from God, or a curse. Curanderos cure ailments like espanto ("shock"), empacho ("surfeit"), susto ("fright"), mal aire ("bad air"), and mal de ojo ("evil eye")

The entire area is filled with the scent of herbal smoke, coming from censers which the Curanderos swing around their patients in a cleansing ritual known as Limpia. The practice has been around for quite some time now -- at least since 500 BC.

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