Dr. Gonzales is the grand/daughter of Kickapoo, Comanche, and Macehual peoples. She descends from three generations of traditional healers who were midwives, herbalists, bonesetters, and traditional healers who did ceremonial doctoring. She is a carrier of her family's Macehual and Mesoamerican ancestral lineage and has apprenticed with Nahua traditional healers in Mexico for more than three decades and received teachings from Mixtec, Mayan, and Zapotec midwives. She has turned breech babies prior to labor and has helped women conceive or sustain a threatened pregnancy and prevent postpartum depression. She is a traditional birth attendant and herbalist and in a traditional practice, Dr. Gonzales has worked with cancer patients, trauma survivors and Indigenous peoples with chronic illness in an Indigenous clinic setting. She has created formulas for inflammation, coldness, to improve the pulse of life, deep immunity, nerve and muscle pain, nervousness, embedded imbalances, and vulnerable life force and medicine teas for use in prayer. She has written extensively on traditional Indigenous understandings of trauma and ways to address it. She teaches beginning and advanced courses about Traditional Indigenous Medicine and wellness at the University of Arizona. “Dr. P” is the author of five books, including Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing (University of Arizona Press 2012) and Traditional Indian Medicine: American Indian Wellness (Kendall Hunt 2016). The e-book is the first textbook on Traditional Indian Medicine and contains a curriculum she teaches with links to videos, readings and websites: https://he.kendallhunt.com/
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