Limpia — cleansing hands
ritual cleansing and practitioner action
Limpia refers to cleansing practices whose materials and meanings vary by healer and community. The hand point marks practitioner action as a visual aid, not a claim that a ritual can replace clinical care.
Point 5 of 6 in Mexican Curanderismo
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
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)