| Folk medicine practitioners such as curanderos, spiritualists, and santeros are sometimes consulted when physical symptoms suggest a folk illness such as mal ojo or susto. |
| A visit to the northern Huaringas area will enable travelers to meet curanderos, or shamans, who hold specialized healing ceremonies. |
| Some curanderos are specialists trained in bone-setting or the treatment of tumors. |
| Such practitioners, known as curanderos, use herb teas and poultices, traditional exercises, incantations, and magical touching to heal. |
| However, curanderos have been mostly supplanted by U.S. doctors, because they cannot get licenses to practice medicine here. |
| More than half used folk remedies, and at least 7 percent used curanderos. |
