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.

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

Point 6 of 6 in Mexican Curanderismo

Cross-tradition overlaps

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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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