cleansing
Juani, our Director Antonio's friend, came along with us during the Oaxaca trip. She is from San Cristobal, a mother of three daughters, and writes monthly articles for http://www.piwdw.org/ The Press Institute for Women of the Developing World. Here she is, getting a cleansing at the traditional medicine clinic in Conulalpam. the cleansing consisted of rubbing an uncracked egg over her body, swatting her with herbs, spitting rubbing alcohol on her body, and then "reading" what the yolk of the egg said. later some of us got massages and Temezcal (a sweat-lodge type treatment).
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