Before we left Iquitos, we had met, mostly by chance, some folks that would be operating a traveling clinic near where we would be staying in the Jungle. I think our guide Lynn knew one of the nurses coordinating the trip from previous volunteer work.
They had invited us to join them when they passed near our village, and Lynn remembered the date.
We hiked about an hour through the jungle to a village called New Jerusalem and joined the travel clinic for the day.
I got to work with a very kind MD, and an ethnobotanist who was also traveling with them.
I did simple things like check blood pressure, take temperatures, do urine dipsticks, listen to lungs.
The young mother I had met at Ramones with the very sick baby showed up at the clinic. To my astonishment, the baby was now well, and borrowing the doctor's stethoscope, I listened to the baby's lungs, which were now completely clear. The doctor asked what I was listening for and I told him that we had spent the evening with her just 2 nights ago, and the baby had been struggling to breathe, with phlegm rattling every breath. I told him that we had been at a ceremony with the shaman Ramone. The doctor nodded and said "Yes, Ramone is very good". I was astounded at his acceptance. He said he had seen Ramone get results too many times to deny that whatever he is doing works.
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