With Vapor, This 11-Year-Old Treats Illnesses
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Mircyla is an 11-year-old vaporadora … a healer who uses vapor to treat ailments.
She started to learn the art at age nine.
Mircyla steeps a specific plant in boiling water. Her patient stands over the water and inhales the vapors.
She will read the leaves to determine whether the healing has been successful.
Mircyla is an Ashaninka, an indigenous people who in the rain forests of Peru.
The Ashaninka are known to be the only tribe to use vapor to heal.
