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The support they provide is a continuation of many homeland traditions for people living in conditions of diaspora, immigration, and exile. Others argue that the botánica first emerged in the United States, citing New York's Spanish Harlem as the birthplace. A botánica is a site of healing and support, such that one owner says they are a "place of mysteries" due to the metaphysical appreciation of mystery as a synonym for spirit and divinity.
In Curanderismo, Santería, and Espiritismo, the practitioners assess the patient and, depending on diagnosis, prepares a healing remedy or a variety of healing remedies. Evidence suggests that the first botánicas were opened in Cuba and Puerto Rico in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Botánicas are popular in heavily populated urban and Latino communities like Miami, New York, Los Angeles, and the Greater Boston Area. There are also products that are designed to attract love, bring good luck and financial prosperity, deflect jealousy and so on. Botánicas provide their patrons with access to power: power from the natural world, the social world, and the world of the spirits.Over the following decades, people from a wide variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds have founded and used botánicas for economic and cultural benefit.
Without access to professional health services, many Latinos have found effective care in the herbal treatments and psychological support that botánicas offer. Goods and services [ edit ] Colors and smells of Santeria: colorful assortment of items sold in a botánica. For instance, red stands for love, green symbolizes prosperity, white guards children, yellow protects adults, and orange resolves family conflicts. Services include divination, individual and family counseling, wellness recommendations, spiritual cleansing (Spanish: limpias), and more.Reglas de Kongo or Palo also originated in Cuba; this religion solicits African spirits and spirits of the dead to aid the living. a b Sandoval, Mercedes Cros (2007-02-01), "Obatala/Obatalá and Oduduwa/Odudua", Worldview, the Orichas, and Santería, University Press of Florida, pp.
Botánicas offer a variety of spiritual and religious merchandise and services, including candles, incense, potions, powders, icons, statues and consultations. During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the Spanish brought large numbers of Africans to their colonies in North America, South America, and the Caribbean.Finally, another popular aspect found in botanicas include Latin American manifestations with shrines and altars to Saints rooted in folk Catholicism. Thus, in opposition to it, they continue to use their own culturally appropriate healthcare practices.
Most botánicas sell products and services associated with spiritual practices such as Candomblé, Curanderismo, Espiritismo, Macumba, Palo Monte, Santa Muerte, María Lionza and Santería. Generally a person who practiced the art of folk healing became known as a curandero, with the practice known as Curanderismo. Much as Vodou developed under French colonialism in Haiti as a blend of Roman Catholicism and African religions, Santería ("Way of the Saints") developed along similar lines in Cuba. Ultimately, botánicas serve as a bridge in efforts to develop community healthcare programs that link families with conventional medical practitioners who lack their native familiarity.Fall in love with the subtle aroma of Botanica’s candles, made with a blend of natural and naturally derived wax and paraffin wax, as well as lasting fragrances infused with essential oils. All our Botanica fragrances are infused with exotic natural ingredients that are responsibly sourced in a way that respects our planet. Besides being a place to merely obtain goods, botánicas serve as unique sites for the performance of religious culture.
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