Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:14
Eduardo
I think that any human being suffering from a health problem that regular medicine cannot cure, even today, in the 21st century, considers seeing a with doctor, a healer.
In cuba, with its formidable mix of devotions and beliefs that drive us, there are quite a lot of people that search for cures, health, and well being through faith.
In Punta Brava, a small village a few kilometers from Havana, lives and works one of them, Eduardo Navarro, also known as Yito or El Tunero, whose fame (or effectiveness I would say) is known everywhere.
Eduardo practices what he calls “manatismo”, the ability to locate pains and cure them with his hands, a gift he got from his grand-mother. Another diagnostic tool that he uses is the leave of a cactus pear, which he puts underneath the patient’s sole which reveals the problem and defines the treatment. According to Eduardo, he’s not doing this process alone, but always accompanied by the Catholic Saint Lazarus or Babalú Ayé from our Afro Cuban cults.
Patients suffering from asthma, hernias, epilepsy, handicaps and even in more severe health estate have been cured thanks to Yito. His patients, doctors as well as people from all over the world, all value and appreciate his ability. He works without a scalpel and is able to make fibromas, tumors, and cysts leave the organism through the oral or anal tract.
Patients from all provinces turn to him and long lines can be seen outside his “medical center and operating room”, hoping to be one of the approx. 40 patients he sees every day, although he is taking care of emergencies 24hours a day. He has never charged anything for his service, rather asking for religious offerings to Saint Lazarus / Babalú Ayé. Even patients from important health centers such as the Tropical Medicine Health Institute Pedo Kouri (IPK) have been sent to this “missionary on Earth”, as he likes to call himself, who only asks for something that nowadays is hard to find: Human gratefulness.
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