Ancestral medicine in modern times: The living wisdom of there Zenu people and its physical-spiritual healing system

Title : Ancestral medicine in modern times: The living wisdom of there Zenu people and its physical-spiritual healing system

Abstract:

Ethnomedicine: Understanding illness as an imbalance between body, lineage, spirit, and territory, applying the diagnostic frameworks and healing principles of the Zenú tradition.
Ethnopharmacology: Studying the physical and spiritual properties of plants, their elemental correspondences, and their ceremonial uses.
Ethnobotany: Preserving traditional plant knowledge and its relationship to cosmology, solar and lunar cycles, and elemental forces. Traditional Zenú medicine and Cetería (the spiritual science reserved for women) form the core of the Sinuano female shamanic path. Their ceremonial, territorial, and cosmological principles sustain the Zenú process of healing. Her work and research show how this ancestral knowledge can be ethically applied and adapted in any territory of Spain or Europe, honoring local ecosystems while maintaining the integrity of Zenú spiritual and medicinal science.

Biography:

Victoria Fernández is a Traditional Medicine Woman of the Zenú People, bearer of an ancestral lineage where Indigenous wisdom and Lebanese heritage meet. Called since childhood to the Female Shamanic Path, Victoria was initiated by the elder women of her territory, learning to listen to plants, read the invisible layers of the land, and guide healing through Zenú cosmology. For over two decades in Europe, Victoria has accompanied profound processes of spiritual restoration and feminine awakening. An ethnobotanist and specialist in Zenú ethnomedicine, Victoria founded the MTZ Association in Spain. Her mission: to awaken remembrance so that healing can return.