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In the year 2021, amidst worldwide fear, chaos, riots, and economic shutdowns resulting from the COVID-19 global pandemic, I was diagnosed with cancer. My scans were not the scans of a person who lives, the medical specialists said, and because of the medical policies put in place to stop the spread of COVID, much of my treatment was administered without the presence of my family or loved ones. Everything in my life had taken a drastic U-turn.

Arranging ofrendas. Brewing pericon 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 apprenticing with Mexican curanderas, studying herbal texts, and listening to her ancestors.

Der neue Stern unter den natürlichen Heilmitteln! Bevor 2015 der Nobelpreis für Medizin an die chinesische Pharmakologin Tu Youyou verliehen wurde, hatten wahrscheinlich nur wenige überhaupt etwas von "Artemisia annua" – dem Einjährigen Beifuß – gehört. Dabei wird diese Heilpflanze bereits seit Jahrhunderten von der Traditionellen Chinesischen Medizin (TCM) als wirksames Mittel gegen Malaria und andere schwere Erkrankungen eingesetzt.