Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health - Elena Avila

A modern healer draws on Aztec folk medicine to offer a new perspective on women's health. Avila presents a global vision of how the gifts of indigenous health care, married with contemporary technology, can create a medicine of the future. Foreword by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. An autobiographical account of how a psychiatric nurse specialist became a folk medicine healer; this also explains the origins and practice of one of the oldest forms of medicine in the New World.-- Kirkus .