“People, all of us, have a reality principle: we observe what happens to us following treatment, and if it didn’t work, it would have already disappeared. Suggestion? Yes, of course, but why not accept that the suggestion is positive? That phrase synthesizes the vision of Roberto Campos Navarro, a Mexican with extensive academic training but who is seen as an “exotic doctor” by his colleagues.
“I have foundation with historical studies of Mexico and all of Latin America on empacho and evil eye. Also from other diseases such as susto, which has an American origin, it belongs to us. Dialogue with my colleagues is difficult, they see me as a stranger, “he said in dialogue with Jonatan Raimundo and Mirta Andrín in one morning for all by Chain 3 Rosary.
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From September 12 to 17, the Universidad del Gran Rosario (UGR) received the surgeon (Unam), Specialist in Family Medicine (IMSS-Unam), Master in Social Anthropology (Enah), Doctor in Social Anthropology (Unam), among others, for a graduate seminar.
In addition, this Saturday he had a meeting at the University with curators and the community in general to exchange ideas related to his field of study.
“They are treatments that correspond to domestic, home, home medicine, it has not been recognized, in all our homes there are these therapies that we have called evil eye diseases, sunstroke, empacho”, expressed Campos-Navarro.
Along these lines, he expanded: “What I have worked on documentarily regarding the measure of the tape is that it is effective. We do not know why, but that is what gives continuity to its use. I have no explanation from the scientific point of view, but What matters is the effectiveness of the treatment.”.
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Regarding the figure of “healers” or “healers”, he considered them “colleagues” although he proposed some differentiation criteria, analogous to academic medicine.
“We also have charlatans. There must be a control to know the legitimacy of each of these curators, the simplest is the one that says ‘don’t give me anything’. If they exaggerate on the commercial issue, then I would be in doubt, just like our academic medical colleagues who sometimes have excessive fees.. In that sense, one must look for community, neighborhood legitimacy of the person who does it, “he said.
Regarding the resistance of many of his peers to accept this type of treatment or cure, Campos Navarro attributes it both to the fear caused by ignorance and to training defects.
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“Ignorance and lack of knowledge, there has not been a serious, respectful approach towards our healer colleagues, we always think they are trickery, for many years the Church persecuted them with the inquisition, there is a historical foundation, I have shown my colleagues that it is not recognized. All the people do it”, declared the Aztec doctor.
And he concluded: “There is, in general, a lack of knowledge of therapies that were used before, doctors at the end of the 20th century knew regarding medicinal plants, they studied medical botany. From the 20s and 30s, the pharmaceutical industry grows and everything is reduced to pills and injections. We have a problem in the formative question”.
