Traditional Medicine of the Kallawayas - Peace

Wear light clothing for the day and warm clothing for the night, comfortable shoes, glasses, sun cap and waterproof coat for the rainy season; first aid kit, sunscreen and medicine.

UTM N coordinates 8321142 – E 501063
Altitude 3250 m.s.n.m.
Temperatura mine. 3.7OC – Max. 21 OC

Traditional Medicine of the Kallawayas – Peace

Kallawaya Traditional Medicine includes practical knowledge and beliefs that the residents of the Bautista Saavedra Province of the Department of La Paz have used ancestrally.. Republic Law No. 928 of the 9 April 1987, declared as Capital of Traditional Medicine of Bolivia. These practices include elements of animal origin, vegetable and/or mineral. Everything that restores the natural balance of body and spirit, even the sounds and the words, can cure and heal. The right to practice Traditional Medicine is transmitted exclusively by descent from one generation to another., male children being initiated into ancestral practices. If the herbalist does not have offspring, his knowledge dies with him., In no case are they transmitted to female successors..

According to the Kallawaya Culture, the human being is the union of three vital elements derived from Ajayu (spirit); Ajayu Tuna, divine force that grants the powers of thinking, feel and move; The killing ajayu an astral body or animimic; in the third element -physical body- in which both ajayus are incarnated. The illness is associated with the loss of the Ajayu and to restore it the Kallawaya turns to resources from nature and the spiritual world.. It uses therapies based on spiritual ceremonies in which deities and ancestors such as Pachamama and the mountains are invoked..

AUTONOMOUS DEPARTMENTAL GOVERNMENT OF LA PAZ
SECRETARY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION
DIRECTORATE OF CULTURES AND TOURISM
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