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Definition of curandero in English:

curandero

nounPlural curanderos, Feminine and Plural curandera ˌkjʊərənˈdɛːrəʊkuranˈðeroˌkyo͝orənˈderō
  • (in Spain and Latin America) a healer who uses folk remedies.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He or she is also a healer, curandero, who practices herbal medicine.
    • To judge by the Spanish sources, these berdaches were neither curanderos nor healers, and in no way acted as spiritual mediators or shamans or priests between the material and spiritual world.
    • Another friend who's Latina occasionally consults her curandera, and my Catholic aunt still trusts in the cures of shamans.
    • More than half used folk remedies, and at least 7 percent used curanderos (traditional practitioners).
    • Maya folk medicine includes the ministrations of ritual healers called curanderos and female herbalists who may double as midwives.
    • However, curanderos have been mostly supplanted by U.S. doctors, because they cannot get licenses to practice medicine here.
    • A visit to the northern Huaringas area will enable travelers to meet curanderos, or shamans, who hold specialized healing ceremonies.
    • Such practitioners, known as curanderos, use herb teas and poultices, traditional exercises, incantations, and magical touching to heal.
    • Particularly in Amerindian communities, curanderos function as healers who communicate with nature gods and spirits.
    • When she was 14 years old ‘the universal energy was passed’ to her in a ritual led by an aunt who was a curandera and espiritista.
    • When ill, he went to the local curandero, or healer.
    • Folk medicine practitioners such as curanderos, spiritualists, and santeros are sometimes consulted when physical symptoms suggest a folk illness such as mal ojo (evil eye) or susto.
    • Both are common practices in Latin America, where prescription-only medications can easily be bought without a prescription, and people tend to get their herbal medicine from informal providers, like friends or the curandero.
    • If they proved identical, this might suggest that curanderos had transported a cutting or plant from one side of the Andes to the other.
    • There are two types of curanderos (folk healers).
    • To show that they were not rude curanderos, their events were organized in fancy downtown hotels.
    • When she eventually recovers, she apprentices to become a curandera, and in a slow, agonizing manner, falls in love with a native American woman.
    • Consider this description of a scholar studying curanderos, native healers who provide Hispanic communities with medical advice, prescriptions, and treatments.
    • On those occasions in which relief from a specific affliction was not achieved through home remedies, however, individuals or families might solicit the assistance of a curandero (folk curer) or other type of folk healer.
    • Along with Western medicine there is still a tradition of curanderos (natural healers), and parteras who are still regularly consulted, especially by the rural and Indian population.

Origin

Spanish, from curar 'to cure', from Latin curare.

 
 

Definition of curandero in US English:

curandero

nounˌkyo͝orənˈderō
  • (in Spain and Latin America) a healer who uses folk remedies.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • More than half used folk remedies, and at least 7 percent used curanderos (traditional practitioners).
    • When she eventually recovers, she apprentices to become a curandera, and in a slow, agonizing manner, falls in love with a native American woman.
    • Another friend who's Latina occasionally consults her curandera, and my Catholic aunt still trusts in the cures of shamans.
    • Folk medicine practitioners such as curanderos, spiritualists, and santeros are sometimes consulted when physical symptoms suggest a folk illness such as mal ojo (evil eye) or susto.
    • Consider this description of a scholar studying curanderos, native healers who provide Hispanic communities with medical advice, prescriptions, and treatments.
    • To judge by the Spanish sources, these berdaches were neither curanderos nor healers, and in no way acted as spiritual mediators or shamans or priests between the material and spiritual world.
    • To show that they were not rude curanderos, their events were organized in fancy downtown hotels.
    • Such practitioners, known as curanderos, use herb teas and poultices, traditional exercises, incantations, and magical touching to heal.
    • Particularly in Amerindian communities, curanderos function as healers who communicate with nature gods and spirits.
    • If they proved identical, this might suggest that curanderos had transported a cutting or plant from one side of the Andes to the other.
    • He or she is also a healer, curandero, who practices herbal medicine.
    • When ill, he went to the local curandero, or healer.
    • Maya folk medicine includes the ministrations of ritual healers called curanderos and female herbalists who may double as midwives.
    • However, curanderos have been mostly supplanted by U.S. doctors, because they cannot get licenses to practice medicine here.
    • A visit to the northern Huaringas area will enable travelers to meet curanderos, or shamans, who hold specialized healing ceremonies.
    • When she was 14 years old ‘the universal energy was passed’ to her in a ritual led by an aunt who was a curandera and espiritista.
    • Both are common practices in Latin America, where prescription-only medications can easily be bought without a prescription, and people tend to get their herbal medicine from informal providers, like friends or the curandero.
    • On those occasions in which relief from a specific affliction was not achieved through home remedies, however, individuals or families might solicit the assistance of a curandero (folk curer) or other type of folk healer.
    • There are two types of curanderos (folk healers).
    • Along with Western medicine there is still a tradition of curanderos (natural healers), and parteras who are still regularly consulted, especially by the rural and Indian population.

Origin

Spanish, from curar ‘to cure’, from Latin curare.

 
 
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