The Curanderx Toolkit

A practical guide to understanding and using Mexican healing traditions in everyday life. Arranging ofrendas . Brewing pericón into a healing tea. Releasing traumas through baños and limpias . Herbalist and curandera Atava Garcia Swiecicki spent decades gathering this traditional knowledge of curanderismo, Mexican folk healing, which had been marginalized as Chicanx and Latinx Americans assimilated to US culture. She teaches how to follow the path of the curandera, as she herself learned from ap