Curanderismo Books - Mexico, Central and South America
Red Medicine, Traditional
Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing, by Patrisia Gonzales
Meditations for InterSpiritual Wisdom: Practices and
Readings drawn from the World's Spiritual Traditions - Chapter,
"Entering the Flower World, a Mexican Path to the Soul," by
Grace Alvarez Sesma gives instruction on Sun
Meditation/Initiation.
Fire Heart, The Life and Teachings of Maya Medicine Woman
Miss Beatrice Torres Waight
Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk Healing, Robert Trotter
& Juan Antonio Chavira
Nuestra Medicina, by Estela Roman
Remedios: the Healing Life of Eva Castellanoz by Joanne
Mulcahy
Zapotec Woman of the Clouds: The Life of the midwife-healer
Enriqueta Contreras Contreras by Mary Margaret Navar
Healing with Herbs and Rituals: A Mexican Tradition, Eliseo
Torres
Folk Healer: The Mexican-American Tradition of Curanderismo,
Eliseo Torres
Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional
Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health, by Elena Avila,
RN (QEPD)
Curandero Conversations: El Niño Fidencio, Shamanism and
Healing Traditions of the Borderlands, Antonio Zavaleta and
Alberto Salinas Jr.
Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing & Chinese Medicine. Hernan
Garcia, Antonio Sierra, Gilberto Balam, Jeff Conant, et al.
Delfina Cuero: Her Autobiography, An Account of Her Last
Years, and Her Ethnobotanic Contributions. Delfina Cuero
(Kumeyaay elder) and Florence Connolly Shipek.
Sastun: One Woman's Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer.
Arvigo, Rosita.
Spiritual Bathing: Healing Rituals and Traditions from
Around the World, Arvigo, Rosita.
The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in
Religion and Medicine, Tedlock, Barbara.
Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West: Cultural and
Scientific Basis for Their Use. Cecilia Garcia and JD Adams.
(Cecilia Garcia was a strong contemporary Chumash Medicine Woman
living in Ensenada, BC. She joined the Ancestors in 2012. There
is a lot of cross-cultural plant knowledge and usage between
Baja California and Alta California Native peoples)
Temalpakh: Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants.
Lowell John Bean and Katherine S. Saubel. (Katherine S. Saubel,
Cahuilla Medicine Woman and Activist, passed on in 2011.)
An Aztec Herbal: The Classic Codex of 1552 (Botanical
information compiled by Aztec physician Martin de la Cruz in
that time period. Also known as the Codex De La Cruz - Badiano),
William Gates.
Plant Spirit Medicine: The Healing Power of Plants, Cowan,
Eliot.
The Medicine Bear – A Novel for Herbalists and Healers by
Jesse Wolf Hardin (Publisher, Plant Healer Magazine)
Maria Sabina: Selections (Poets for the Millennium) by Maria
Sabina and Jerome Rothenberg
Maria Sabina and Her Mushroom Velada (Ethno-mycological
studies) by María Sabina
Curanderos: They Heal the Sick with Prayers and Herbs
by Trevino-Hernandez, Alberto.
Curanderas, Medicine Women & Doctors by Bobette Perrone, H.
Henrietta Stockel, Victoria Krueger.
Mexican-American Folklore by John O. West
Infusions of Healing: A Treasury of Mexican American Herbal
Remedies, by Joie Davidow
Latino Folk Medicine by Anthony DeStefano.
Homegrown Healing: Traditional Home Remedies from Mexico
by Annette Sandoval
Border Healing Woman: The Story of Jewel Babb as told to Pat
LittleDog by Jewel Babb
Native Mesoamerican Spirituality, by Miguel Leon-Portilla
The Broken Spears by Miguel Leon-Portilla (a translated
version of the account of the conquest of Mexico from the
Mexihca/Aztec's point of view, in their own words)
