Hermano Carlos Interview Transcript 24

Please visit the California Revealed website to see the most complete and up-to-date version of this object: https://californiarevealed.org/node/566930 . Alcoholism: witchcraft, social & economic, human vs. non-human; works against enemies, gossip & violent fam. members, most treated ailments.¶The Michael Owen Jones collection, Botánicas: Herbs and Saints in the City of Angels, represents not only the Latinx community, but also an area little studied from that population, specifically plant and ritual treatments. From 1999 to 2002, Professor Michael Owen Jones received funding from what was then called the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, focusing on plant and ritual treatments for a wide variety of ailments, including not only physical but also emotional and social problems.¶As Jones describes the project: [the project]''on folk medicine among Latinx healers in Los Angeles, California, initiated because little research had been conducted on botánicas anywhere in the United States. The findings reveal that most of the healers are steeped in more than one religious and healing tradition. In addition, clientele are not exclusively Latinx or immigrants, and they seek help for physical, emotional, interpersonal, legal, and other problems. Data from this study can help inform educational and medical programs regarding faith-based and herbal therapies by vernacular practitioners in Los Angeles.''