Hace algunos años, cuando un familiar mío se enfrentó al cáncer, entendí la desesperación que se puede llegar a tener por librarse de la muerte.

Background. The Andean culture, rich in ancestral knowledge, is practiced in the Cuenca Canton, where its inhabitants commonly use ancestral medicine, deeply rooted in their beliefs and traditions. Aim. Describe the current ...

La Medicina Ancestral es un método milenario el cual utiliza recursos que se encuentran prácticamente al alcance de todos los grupos sociales sean estos naturales o espirituales, por lo cual es común observar muchas personas ...

With the purpose of collaborating in the preservation of the oral, iconographic and ethnobotanical intangible heritage of the original Kichwa Sarayaku people, through a collaboration between their empirical knowledge and ...

In the present research called «Ancestral agents: balance, healing and life», the current situation in which the ancestral medical agents work in the canton of Cuenca is analyzed, with an emphasis on socio-economic and ...

BACKGROUND: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), traditional medicine is a set of knowledge, skills and practices based on indigenous theories, beliefs and experiences of different cultures, whether or not ...