With a patient and dogged investigation for fifteen years in the friendship of his informants, Louis Girard was able to gather a collection of medicinal plants, organic nutrients and minerals, as well as amulets, used in therapeutic practices and Magic Kallawaya. The complete inventory of thousands items, classifications reported in light of local and face the ancient chronicles of Natural History, allows to study both indigenous taxonomies and traditional medicines different codes, semantic and symbolic employed by these healers.
You can download the entire book in PDF format by clicking on the cover. It was probably a bit dated as to the historical and sociological, but it's a classic and now one of the best books inventorying plants and amulets Kallawaya.
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