And as she added, after childbirth becomes a ritual with the placenta and umbilical cord: buries them as a way to bring life back to the forces of nature. It is a family ceremony of thanks. Azpiroz Clenan argued that if there are complications should refer the mother to a hospital, there is no experience on how to treat it. Another point discussed was that of mental health. They do not conceive the closure as a therapeutic form of healing. In that we have much to learn from them, said Minister Mate.
Also talked about medicinal herbs: in Argentina this has not been considered important, but in Brazil they are studying thousands of medicinal herbs, some with an important clinical effectiveness – said Marin-. Indigenous peoples say: if I used it for 500 years, why need to tell me that it is good?, and here comes a solidarity concept of Medicine: Western medicine requires a scientific validation. In the background, then, is a double proposal: improve accessibility – we have to 90 thousand persons originating, Mate – told the official health and leave indigenous medicine from spilling onto the huincas. Minister Mate said: it will be difficult, because laws are designed from the West. I don’t know what opinaran the medical colleges if we propose to put in an institution to a person who is not doing therapeutic medical, but to do the debate. For one thing, they want to there is a pilot with forms of care and indigenous therapies Center at the end of 2007.
They claim a mapuche health centre in Los Toldos-flags in mapuche announce a meeting at school 6, called by grouping Epu Bafkeh (two eyes of water). It is Sunday and the kids are entertained at the playground. There are many people, around tables, waiting for the pony, carneado on Saturday, which is slow roasted. The mapuches are located in circle and the Assembly passed the microphone from hand to hand. They ask for restitution of lands, a health center Mapuche and that its form of care is not considered illegal practice of medicine. In that place rose the tolderias of the tribe voroga of the cacique Ignacio Coliqueo, the Indian friend, who first fought for Urquiza and then got the legal assignment of 16,400 hectares, by laws of 1866 and 1868. Then, there was a long process opposite to the community concept of Earth. In little more than 100 years, the collective ownership became a single. Many sold them, evil, to go to the people. A bit of these lands today stands a House that belongs to the bishopric of 9 July, in a land of 2,875 square meters. It is uninhabited, they say in the meeting, since 1998. And now they want to sell. The mapuches nailed red door flags and a banner that proclaims: mapuche territory. In that house they want to lift the health centre where you can attend the machis, work the Yerba, and produce derivatives of herbs, such as tinctures and creams.