Ethno medicine and Shamanic Practices in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Journey through the Imaginaries of Health, Disease, Healing and Healing
International Journal of Integrated Medical Research November 15, 2022 Patricio Trujillo Montalvo
The use of sacred plants with high hallucinogenic power characterizes one of the forms identities of the peoples of the Amazon. The imaginaries about disease and death processes are seen as an internal rupture, product of magical agents, generally related to arrows that are sent by enemies and that cause contamination that produces ills or damages in the body. The shaman, turned into a...