Curanderos

Pre Columbian traditional medicine has, for centuries, relied on the figure of the Curanderos healers who operate through spirituality and magic skills. Today the Curandero is far less widespread because it is no longer recognized in society, there are still a few and for the most part, they are elderly people, holders of an ancestral wisdom, verbally handed down from their ancestors. In Peru, from the high places in the Cordillera and Titicaca island until the depths of the Amazon jungle, it’s a tradition that is still very much alive and indeed attracts new waves of “mystic” tourism, which is recognized by the government as such and therefore upheld. Each rural community has its own Curandero or shaman, as a spiritual guide for the village who works by using the energies of the universe and Pacha Mama, to help his community to dispel the evil eye, have more abundant harvests or to cure disparate diseases.