#traditional healers

[enchanted-moura]

Dulce Martins, Santos, SP. Benzedeiras, tradição milenar de cura pela fé, 2020. AST, 30x40cm.

[mexicanistnet]

Joseline Hernández, a UNAM student, explores traditional healers' wisdom in Benito Juárez to combat Mexico's 18.4% diabetes rate. Documenting 21 medicinal plants, she bridges tradition and science for a holistic approach to healthcare.

[hamdun888]

Integrating Traditional Healing into a Loving Care Model

Some years ago, I was blessed to lead a nonprofit research institute, innovation laboratory, and multispecialty group practice, founded on the principles of Relationship-Centered Care. Our governance was based on Circle Process, and a key premise of our model was cultural respect. So, it was fascinating when the following conversation took place: “Oh yes, Tom, we do a lot of work with the…

[m-c-easton]

Book Picks: Palmares

Magical realist and almost Biblical, Gayl Jones' novel Palmares is magnificent. Almeyda grows up enslaved in 1600s Brazil--until she arrives in Palmares, where everything changes. This is a story of magic, myth, and the hope of intergenerational healing.

Palmares is marvelous. Magical realist and at times even Biblical, Gayl Jones’ novel is set in a fictional Brazil at the end of the 17th century. It opens with the young first-person narrator Almeyda, observing Mexia, a mixed race woman. She serves as a model for a particular type of femininity: quiet, alluring, and outwardly obedient. This divide between inner and outer worlds—appearance versus…

[jppres]

Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used to manage hypertension in the Republic of Guinea

Article published in J. Pharm. Pharmacogn. Res., vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 938-951, September-October 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.56499/jppres22.1470_10.5.938 Mohamed S. Traore1,2*, Aïssata Camara1,2, Mamadou A. Balde1,2, Mamadou ST. Diallo1,2, Nene S. Barry1, Elhadj S. Balde1,2, Aliou M. Balde1,2 1Department of Pharmacy, University Gamal Abdel Nasser of Conakry, Guinea. 2Institute for Research…

[saelrum]

Before I have to make yet another trip

Have a small sketch of my favourite magic drug dealers 😇

Gotta keep up the business in the family

[pushing500]

Mechi is studying hard, as usual. Powered by unshakable curiosity and Dalgona coffee (which gives a huge research boost).

Hmm. He's been drinking a lot of Dalgona coffee lately, actually. If only we had an animal that produced milk so we could make lattes for some variety...

Yep, wildebeest milk lattes will do. Better than nothing.

We can finally get rid of those pesky wild people who've been loitering on our lawn (and in our hospital in Eugenia's case)! They'll accompany Melissa to Arwell once we've whipped up some bedrolls. We wouldn't send an old blind lady all that way by herself, after all. We're not monsters.

You're lucky we have lots of coffee, LeJeune. (They had food poisoning from their diet of raw agave fruit which is why they were in so much pain)

Finally, we passed up a sketchy offer for a psylink neuroformer. I do kind of wish I'd accepted this quest, though. I want to know what it was!!! We'll accept it next time... maybe.

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[sleepyorchidmonster]

If Riddle were to ever act as a healer in-game, it'd be funny if he acted a bit like Hu Tao, as in sacrificing HP to boost damage, only to get an emergency heal when things get tough.

He'd be one of those healers that rush into danger, using healing spells to stitch themselves back together from the brink of death before going back into the fray and dishing out even more damage...

Bonus imaginary DnD session:

Riddle: Alright, my character suffered a critical injury once again, but there's no time to waste! I'll just cast "Flower Gleam and Glow" an--

Cater: STOP! YOU'RE NOT FIGHTING ANYMORE!! TIME OUT!!

Riddle: Whatever do you mean by that?!?

Azul: Riddle, you can't just waltz into a fight and keep getting mortally wounded. You're the only one in this party that can heal, and that's not even your PRIMARY CLASS!!

Riddle: I understand that, but why are you all so desperate? I've only used this strategy a couple of-

Ortho: 17.

Riddle: !?

Ortho: You've revived your character from the brink of death after rushing into battle 17 separate times during this session.

Riddle: Oh...

Riddle: Well that won't do!

Riddle, grabbing the dice: I need an even number that's divisible by four! Let's make it TWENTY!!

Everyone: NO!!

[mothmonarch]

A little magic from my sketchbook! ✨

[a-lonely-dunedain]

So! this is Gwen, she's one of Lhan Tarren's three resident healers. She speaks in a hushed whisper, is easily spooked, and has a generally unnerving aura about her.

She wasn't always that way though, once she was a bright-eyed healer apprenticed to Cianán (Lhan Tarren's older healer), outgoing, friendly and above all eager to prove herself.

Until one day she ventured into the Mournshaws. I haven't pinned down exactly what it was that drove her there, maybe she was trying to retrieve some rare healing herb, or maybe she was lured there by curiosity alone, but whatever the reason, she did not return. At least not for some time, long enough that the Stag-Clan thought she had died.

When she did finally emerge from that forest, she was... changed. She did not remember anything that happened to her, and her hair had been bleached stark-white.

(on the left is how she looked before The Incident, and the right is her current appearance. the design is probably subject to change tho bc this was just a quick doodle from earlier today)

She would also often see things that weren't there, and would be frequently pulled into waking dreams where strange and sometimes disturbing scenes would play out. These, she did not realize at the time, were actually prophetic visions, but shrouded in such obscure metaphor that she could not recognize them for what they truly were. (A ghostly white hand, growing to giant size and engulfing the entire village, was a frequent appearance.)

Instead, it only reminded her of the tale of Muirgel the Mad, an old story that many in the Stag-Clan thought was a mere myth used by parents to scare their children away from going into the Mournshaws. It told of another young woman who had vanished into the forest for a time, and also came back with stark-white hair, but when she returned she had been either possessed or driven mad by some fell spirit of the forest, and she slew her entire family before she was driven away into the night and never seen again.

Because of this, Gwen does not believe that her prophetic visions are visions at all, and instead thinks they are bouts of madness or symptoms of a fell spirit trying to take over her mind. So believing herself to be a danger to her clan, she locked herself away in her home for months and refused to come out for anyone. She also abandoned her apprenticeship with Cianán as well, as she thought her cursed presence would only do more harm than good to their patients.

It was around this time that Celeair found his way to Lhan Tarren, and with great difficulty as well as a solid wooden door between them, managed to befriend her.

the plan for her currently is that she and Celeair will go on an adventure through the Mournshaws together in order to track down the spirit responsible for Gwen's disappearance all those months ago, and through that find that her current state is not a curse at all but a benevolent spirit's misguided attempt at giving the Stag-Clan a boon in the form of glimpses into the future.

Once she understands the reasons behind her visions and no longer fears them, she can finally begin to discern their meanings and use them to help her clan. She also returns to her apprenticeship with Cianán, and is a key part in helping Celeair adjust to Dunlanding culture and better fit in with the people of Trum Dreng

[reuxben]

Here’s our MTGinktober for “Plump,” starring Liliana, Heretical Healer and Garruk Relentless! C'mon, Garruk, stop holding up the draft and make your pec--I mean your pec! I mean pec your card...Uh…

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[oilith]

Happy lesbian visibility week!

[probablyevilrpgideas]

The Party-

A femboy from a matriarchal state where men have limited opportunities to advance

A disaffected woman from a tribe where every woman looks the same and has the same job

A man from a tribe similar to but with a different function from the above, taking on the role of a woman in that tribe

A deeply traumatized goblin who drinks to forget the pain of their trauma

NPC: "Y'all good? You all look like you're sorting some shit out... I mean you, the players. Y'all good?"

[copper-skulls]

grillby dad momence

have I mentioned?? why fuku is green in this au?? well that's because Grillby found her shortly after she popped into existence and he had to pump her with green magic for several hours (with the help of Gaster giving him his reserves) so she wouldn't dissipate. congratz! you came into being and caused your future dad to be The Most Terrified Creature In The Underground for several hours

[marydithart]

𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒐 - 𝑫𝒊𝒖𝒏𝒂

My best companion, my dearest Diuna! I lost count of how many times she saved me during hunts.