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Trance surgery in Brazil.

N S Don1, G Moura

  • 1Kairos Foundation, Wilmette, Ill., USA.

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
|July 15, 2000
PubMed
Summary
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Brazilian healer-mediums in a hyperaroused brain state perform "trance surgery." This practice, despite lacking sterile conditions, appears generally safe and may initiate self-healing processes in patients.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Background:

  • Healer-mediums in Brazil perform crude surgeries using sharp instruments.
  • These practices are often described as "possession trance" in anthropological literature.