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Lecture Series

The Advantages of Traditional Chumash Healing

James D. Adams, Jr1,* and Cecilia Garcia2

1Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy 1985 Zonal Avenue, PSC 508, Los Angeles, CA, USA, and 2Chumash Healer Granada Hills, CA, USA

Chumash healing has been practiced in California for ~13 000 years. Chumash healers treat their patients with prayer, laughter, dreaming, phytotherapy, aromatherapy, healing ceremonies and other techniques. Healing involves first healing the spirit, then healing the body. Chumash people still maintain their unique identity. Chumash Healers still practice the ancient healing arts in California. This lecture is a brief introduction to Chumash Healing.

Keywords: healing – ethnopharmacology – Chumash

*For reprints and all correspondence: James D. Adams, Jr, Associate Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, PSC 508, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Tel: +1-323-442-1362; E-mail: jadams{at}usc.edu


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