Hello I'm Eliseo Cheo Torres,

administrator and
professor at the University of
New Mexico in Albuquerque and
this is part of a series on traditional
medicine in the Southwest in Mexico.
And again, we're honored to
have one of the best [FOREIGN],
or traditional massage therapists
from Mexico who is also a [FOREIGN].
And an instructor at Cedex [FOREIGN]
in Morelos, Mexico.
The city of [FOREIGN].
Where there's a holistic school.
Flores Sanchez is an instructor there.
She practices holistic medicine
specializes not only in massage, but
acupuncture medicinal plants, and she also
does analysis, different body analysis.
And today she will be demonstrating or
intestinal blockage and
she's going to show you how that is
dislodge whatever is blocking the stomach.
And with us is going to be Alex Jackson,
originally from Albuquerque, now.
Lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
He's also a traditional healer,
specializing in Mayan massage.
And our interpreter again is
Tonita Gonzalez from Albuquerque,
the North valley of Albuquerque,
and she is also a healer,
who also was also taught by Tana,
some of her skills, Tana [FOREIGN].
[CROSSTALK].
>> [FOREIGN].
>> For us,
empacho is a blockage in the intestine
that's an infection in the stomach.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> That this could impact from
babies up to our elder community.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> But
it's much more aggressive
when we talk about children.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> Especially when children
start to eat things, that they
start picking up their food and
eating things that they just find.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> Maybe-
>> [FOREIGN]
>> Plastic, or carton, or even gum.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> But also as children,
they don't really chew correctly.
They start.
Swallowing whole pieces of food.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> This provokes for them to have
a blockage or inside their intestines.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> There's loose and there's a.
A dry empacho.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> A dry empacho,
you really have an inflamed abdomen and
a lot of pain.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> A lot of, oh, fever, but
also their eyes could be watery.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> A lot of gas and
they can't have a bowel movement.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And the baby is crying or
the child is crying.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> Or the loose Empacho is when
they drink contaminated water.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> Or they eat something off
the floor that's contaminated.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> And it provokes diarrhea.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> So
we have a traditional hands on healing.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> To move the intestines and
to move the blockage.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> I'm going to demonstrate it
with this moment.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> She asked permission.
It's always important that
we ask permission from
the person that we're
going to be touching.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> It's always important
to ask permission.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> I'm going to ask permission to work,
when I'm working with his body.
[SOUND].
>> [FOREIGN].
>> The first thing that I'm
going to do is find his pulse.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> When a person has empacho they're or,
the blockage.
They have a superficial pulse and
it's very strong.
>> Mm-hm [FOREIGN]
>> And
I began to put pressure on the abdomen.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And at some points if you hear
like water has been running.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> Then there is empacho.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And I'm going to continue to
do palpitations and
if I set, begin to hear.
Like a hollow drum.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> Then there's a lot of inflammation and
we would call that empacho.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> So then I'm going to do is
help him move his intestines.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> This are strong movements.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> I get a piece of the skin.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> And I pull and stretch.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And I release.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> All of the area of the stomach.
>> [SOUND]
[FOREIGN].
>> And now I'm going to
the transverse intestines.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> I pull the skin, and I stretch
>> [FOREIGN].
>> I go with the descending intestines.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> And I stretch.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> I bring a little bit of balance.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> And you could use a little
bit of lard or ointment
that you make with plants.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> [FOREIGN].
For this, in,
normally in Meso-America we would use, for
this type of treatment,
we would use the lard from a pig.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> I would start doing circular
movements on the stomach.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> Moving in the same
direction as the intestines.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> And now I'm going to start by pulling.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> From the mouth of the stomach.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> All the way in pulling
that to the belly button.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> These movements are going to help me-
>> [FOREIGN].
>> To accommodate the pulse.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> In it's place.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> I tie it into the center
of the bellybutton.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And
I liberate that.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> With the tips of my fingers-
>> [FOREIGN].
>> And it's circular movements-
>> [FOREIGN].
>> Moving along the intestines.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> I'm going to help-
>> [FOREIGN].
>> To unblock any blockages.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> I finished, the massage of
the abdomen and I asked the patient.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> That if he would please turn over.
Please flip over.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> Mm-hm.
[FOREIGN]
>> And here's what we would do.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> I normally would stimulate
the lateral side of the spinal column.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> So that we
could start unblocking the skin
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And we'll pull it up.
[FOREIGN]
>> When the individual or the child is in,
has a blockage in the intestines,
>> [FOREIGN]
>> You would hear how it pops.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> So I'm going to stimulate it first.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And
I'm making little rolls over the skin.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And the side of the spinal column
you run two energetic canals that
work with your intestinal channels.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And with these movements.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> I'm giving messages to all of the sides
and all of the organs of the body.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> It's excellent to bring
balance to the body.
[SOUND].
>> [FOREIGN].
>> I put a towel so
that I can start to manipulate.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> I start with the superior
side of the head.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> I get a little bit of skin.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And I'm going to pull it, strong.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And
I go on the sides of the spinal column.
>> [NOISE]
[FOREIGN].
>> Did you hear that?
Again.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> When you hear it pop like that.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> That it became unblocked.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> And the child-
>> [FOREIGN].
>> Starts to, will begin to have a vowel.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> To start to then-
>> [FOREIGN].
>> When we're talking about a dry embacho,
Blockage in the intestines.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> If it's a dry stuck, things that you
really need to give him like orange juice.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> With maybe a little bit of olive oil.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> So you can help the stomach.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And
then he can have more bowel movements.
[FOREIGN].
>> [FOREIGN].
>> And what she's talking about orange
juice it's not anything in the can,
it would be orange juice that
you would make on your own.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> When it's a loose
blockage in the intestines.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> You need to help the baby so
he doesn't have parasites.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> You have a plant here.
That's called wart, mugwort and
it's an anti, it's for parasites.
>> Mm-hm [FOREIGN]
>> And you can do this type of
treatment to your child and
then give them bland things to eat.
>> Okay [FOREIGN]
>> It made me really happy to be able to
share this hands on treatment with you.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> Because you could do this at
home with your own children.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> Thank you very much.
We appreciate it.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> [FOREIGN].
>> This is part of a series on traditional
medicine of Mexico in the Southwest and
we're so honored to have Tana from.
[FOREIGN]
Mexico who also teaches in
which is a holistic institute.
Donita got her degree there, and
Tana was one of her instructors.
[FOREIGN]
>> [FOREIGN]
>> And so we're happy and
thank you so much.
>> [FOREIGN]
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