Estudio etnomedicinal de las Mesas con San Pedro. Verificación de casos de curación

Abstract

This research article is based on an ethnomedical study, “case closed”, held in 2008 in northern Peru, of descriptive and inclusive natured, carried out by means of participant observation in 56 sessions in which 209 patients were treated to verify the properties of the Peruvian traditional medicine of the San Pedro cactus cure through the rituals of Mesas, performed by the healer Marco Carbajal (who is part of the research group). For said purpose, the patients gave their consent for their conditions or diseases treated with conventional medicine without satisfactory results to be tracked. The research describes two individual case studies.

Keywords:

Mesas con San Pedro

etnomedicina

curanderismo

Mesas con San Pedro

ethnomedicine

healing

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