How shamans analyze and treat desease
admin | March 6, 2010http://news.mongabay.com/2009/1110-herndon_amazon_shaman.html
Physician Christopher Herndon explores how Amazon shamans diagnose and treat disease.
Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long documented the extensive use of medicinal plants by indigenous shamans in places around the world, including the Amazon. But few have reported on the actual process by which traditional healers diagnose and treat disease.
