Participants of the Wellness Congress of the Wellness Fest – Vilcabamba 2025

Spiritual Wellbeing and Inner Connection

Conversation

1. Topic: Indigenous Health Knowledge and Ancestral Wisdom.

2. Summary: Indigenous health and Ancestral wisdom is the heritage left to us by our ancestors, through the knowledge and use of plants, foods, minerals and elements found in Mother Earth, for the healing of our body, soul, spirit and mind, for the psychological and physical healing that affects our body.

3. Biography: My name is Rosita Cabrera and I am 64 years old. I practice medicine and health based on Ancestral knowledge through plants, minerals and elements found in Mother Earth 🌎. I diagnose myself by checking the pulse to diagnose the illnesses and diseases that affect the body, soul and spirit of each patient.

I have been acquiring and practicing Ancestral health knowledge since I was a child. At the age of 8 I had an experience that led me to continue practicing and acquiring the knowledge of our ancestors who practiced ancestral health. This happened when my mother suffered internal vaginal bleeding and was bleeding to death. My desperation in trying to cure her led me to make her a little water with different plants that I did not know what each one was for. I did this because I heard that there were plants that healed and scarred wounds. I gave it to her to drink and she fell asleep and when she woke up the bleeding had stopped.
From that moment on, my desire to be a doctor was born and I began to research and acquire the knowledge of my ancestors about how they used and what each plant, mineral and element found in our land was used for and the different ways our ancestors cured different illnesses, whether mental, physical, psychological or spiritual.
I have been practicing the knowledge and wisdom of ancestral health for more than 40 years.

Indigenous health of Ancestral knowledge is very important in our lives, since through this knowledge it allows us to live in harmony with nature and the environment, since it is what provides us with food, medicine, and among other things that allows us to raise awareness in respect and care for nature and all the minerals and elements that are on earth, because we know how important it is for wildlife and our life. Because if we know what each plant, mineral, animal, etc. is for, they will not be exploited and destroyed in an irrational way.