The Tarahumara, one in all North America’s oldest surviving aboriginal teams, name themselves Rarámuri, which means “nimble feet”—and notwithstanding they dwell in relative isolation in Chihuahua, Mexico, their agility in long-distance operating is known world wide. Tarahumara Medicine is the 1st in-depth inspect the tradition that sustains the “great runners.” Having spent a decade in Tarahumara groups, first and foremost as a clinical pupil and finally as a doctor and cultural observer, writer Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón is uniquely certified as a advisor to the Rarámuri’s method of medication and healing.

In constructing their therapeutic practices, the Tarahumaras interlaced spiritual lore, magic, and cautious observations of nature. Irigoyen-Rascón completely situates readers within the Rarámuri’s surroundings, describing not just their healthiness and nutrients but additionally the mountains and rivers surrounding them and key facets in their tradition, from long-distance kick-ball races to corn beer celebrations and non secular dances. He describes the Tarahumaras’ curing ceremonies, together with their ritual use of peyote, and offers a entire description of Tarahumara conventional natural treatments, together with their botanical features, attributed results, and uses.

to teach what those practices—and the underlying options of future health and disease—might suggest to the Rarámuri and to the observer, Irigoyen-Rascón explores his topic from either an interloper and an insider (indigenous) point of view. via his balanced strategy, Irigoyen-Rascón brings to mild relationships among the Rarámuri therapeutic method and standard medication, and provides considerably to our wisdom of indigenous American healing practices.

because the so much whole account of Tarahumara tradition ever written, Tarahumara Medicine provides readers entry to a global hardly seen—at as soon as richly varied from and inextricably attached with the tips and practices of Western medicine.