The Council of Indigenous Healers of Argentina (Cosindia) holds the Second Meeting of Ancestral Medicine in the Lost Town of La Quebrada, starting on Saturday and ending today the 9th.
The administrator of Tourist Products of the Capital, Natalia Piskulich, gave details of the meeting and was satisfied because the group chose the province of Catamarca and the archaeological site to develop the second meeting, the first had been carried out in the province of Jujuy .
“We are happy to be able to host it, healers from different parts of the country came, it is a meeting of national importance and the fact that they came is a source of pride for us,” said the official.
He added that there were more than 60 registered and that after the opening ceremony on Saturday the activities were transferred to the Adán Quiroga museum.
Mamay Kantuta Killa, a member of Cosindia and the Council of Indigenous Amautas of Tawantinsuyu, pointed out: “We will be meeting the healers of communities, recognized by our peoples, to share knowledge about medicine that has been transmitted to us by our ancestors, for the medicine of the pachamama, the medicine of the earth that is available to everyone, but sometimes it is not known,” he told the communication site “OriginariosAR” hours before starting the meeting.
In turn, he expressed: “We are going to value the fact that there is an alternative way to heal ourselves with a medicine that our mother earth gives us and that is not expensive, we simply must know it, just as we must know the healers of our towns who we are in the territory”, as well as “get to know the indigenous intercultural health centers that exist at the service of original ancestral health that is complemented by university medicine”.
It was learned that at the beginning of the meeting there was an opening ceremony and recognition of the sacred site Pueblo Perdido de la Quebrada. Then there was an offering to the El Tala river.
Yesterday afternoon, the healers of the Kolla, Huarpe, Amaicha, Diaguita, Charrúa and Mapuche peoples, among others, shared their knowledge at the Adán Quiroga Museum.
While today they will offer to all the ‘apus’ (sacred hills, in the Quechua language) in the region and will make an offering against polluting open-pit mining, the healers added.
The purpose of these meetings is “to spread ancestral medicine so that sisters and brothers become aware of the abundance of our mother earth, where the ‘ayni’ (reciprocity) is energetic and there is no entrance fee or anything like that, you only ask for a collaboration when entering the archaeological site because they make us hire an ambulance and medical insurance, but nothing more,” the amauta clarified hours before starting the meeting that ends today.n