Agustina Bautista Arreortua is a curandera of the Capulálpam community. Here she performs a limpia or herbal cleansing
The UZACHI Union de Communidades Productores Forestales Zapatecas Chinantecas de la Sierra Juarez is responsible for the management of all forest resources in four indigenous Zapotec and Chinantec communities Capulálpam Santiago Xiacuí La Trinidad and Santiago Comaltepec located in the Sierra Norte of the Mexican state of Oaxaca The group oversees the communally owned lands and manages the planting cutting and registration of felled trees the operation of a community run sawmill the collection of medicinal plants for commercial purposes ecotourism projects and the distribution of income to the members of the community Agustina Bautista Arreortua is a curandera of the Capulálpam community She performs a limpia or herbal cleansing on a local woman After the limpia a diagnostic of the patient is given based on the position of the whites of a broken egg in a glass of water
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Location: Capulálpam, Oaxaca, Mexico
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