Ground and return
earth, community and embodied settling
Grounding at the feet is an editorial way to show return to ordinary embodied life after a healing encounter. It is not a canonical curanderismo body chart.
Point 6 of 6 in Mexican Curanderismo
Cross-tradition overlaps
- Ground and return ↔ Feet — return and grounding (coincident)
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)