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Spanish colonists begin to integrate their medicinal practices with local Native medicine.
Date: 1500
Colonization
Indigenous
Traditional/folk/cultural medicine
Global South
Europe
Medical system (Western medicine)
Integrative & complementary medicine
The roots of what will become known as curanderismo begin to develop. It is a synthesis of Indigenous Mexican, Spanish, and African healing traditions.
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