Traditional healer Laurencio López Nuñez holds up a psychotropic mushroom that grows in the area.

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Participants primarily graduate students in occupational therapy traveled to Oaxaca Mexico for the University of New Mexico s summer course Introduction to Mexican Traditional Medicine The students took Spanish language classes and were exposed to healing methods using local plants and herbs and traditional procedures for corporal and spiritual cleansings Healers who use local plants in their work show the students various useful ones on a hillside near the village of San Antonio Cuajimoloyas Traditional healer Laurencio López Nuñez holds up a psychotropic mushroom that grows locally

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Location: San Antonio Cuajimoloyas , Oaxaca, Mexico
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