Home Remedies and Basic Herbal Home Kit
Posted on 09/01/10
Herbalist and healer, Doña Enriqueta, will speak at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3 at Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, 922 San Pedro Ave. This evening, Doña Enriqueta emphasizes the importance of having a “basic herbal kit” on hand in our homes. She will tell us which ingredients are necessary for this kit and will discuss other remedies, especially for diabetes and other epidemic diseases that we find in modern society.
"Remedios caseros y la importancia de tener “una canasta básica” en nuestros hogares"
Esta noche, Doña Enriqueta da énfasis a la importancia de tener “una canasta básica” de remedios a la mano en nuestros hogares. Nos dirá cuales son los ingredientes importantes para esta canasta, y además discutirá otros remedios especialmente para la diabétes y otras enfermedades epidémicas que encontramos hoy día en nuestra sociedad.
According to www.esperanzacenter.org,
Doña Enriqueta is a world renowned Zapotec midwife, herbalist, and healer. Her practice embodies the elders' maxim to live with clarity within Zapotec spiritual and cultural beliefs and traditions. Neither the ravages of 500+ years of colonialism, nor the grinding poverty it brought to indigenous communities, have undone the spiritual world of the Zapotec, or the communal political and economic base within which traditional knowledge of medicine and herbalism is passed on from generation to generation.Doña Enriqueta tells us. . . "Our grandparents used to say that we were the 'people of the clouds,' because behind the clouds, there is clarity of life." The basis of that clarity is the proper conduct of our elders who fought to bequeath to us the extremely important value of respect, for ourselves, each other, for the family, for the children, for nature, for all living things.Doña Enriqueta first learned her midwifery skills from la abuela Marcelina. She initiated her legendary midwifery skills as a 17 year old girl in an act of compassion for her sister who faced giving birth alone. She continued to receive training in rural health services from the Red Cross and went on to provide midwife, traditional and other health services in rural villages and indigenous communities throughout her native state of Oaxaca under the auspices of the Department of Health. She then joined the staff in the Instituto Indigenista Nacional (IIN) where she worked with other indigenous healers, midwives, herbalists, masseurs, bonesetters, snake and corn shamans, and other adivinos.
All Platicas free. Donations accepted. For more information, call (210) 228-0201, or visit the Facebook event on the series.
