The curing arts were
and are exercised by doctors and by healers, shamans,
apothecaries and by a multitude of men and women who have
sought, through science or other means, to heal the suffering of
the sick.
This section has an ethnographic character and aims to
record some popular traditions and prescriptions found in the
research on the ways to cure epilepsy.
African Wisdom in Brasil
Popular Prescriptions
Household Remedies
Popular Tales