Corazón — relational feeling

heart, emotion and social balance

Folk-healing accounts often use heart language for feeling, vitality and relational experience, with local variation in terms. This chest anchor is an editorial projection and not a universal curanderismo organ doctrine.

Susto — soul-loss crownMal aire — troubling airCorazón — relational feelingCorazón — relational feelingEmpacho — digestive blockageLimpia — cleansing handsGround and return

Point 3 of 6 in Mexican Curanderismo

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Trotter, Robert T. II and Juan Antonio Chavira, Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk Healing (scholarly_modern)

Documents Mexican American folk-healing concepts, illness categories and plant/ritual practice; consult chapters on susto, empacho and curandero treatment contexts.

Elisabeth E. T. Ortiz, “Mexican Folk Medicine,” (scholarly_modern)

Carlos E. G. Zolla et al., La medicina tradicional de los pueblos indígenas de México (secondary)

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