In East LA the Mexican community knows there are things only the curandero can treat. Don Jacinto Nahual is one of our own: born in Catemaco, formed in the ancestral tradition, living among the Hispanic community of Los Angeles. If you have been suffering something with no name for a while, tell it to someone who truly understands.
East Los Angeles beats with Mexican pride: the bakeries, the murals and the family celebrations tell a story Don Jacinto understands up close. Along Whittier Blvd and in the neighborhoods of City Terrace and Maravilla, faith and ancestral customs stay alive from generation to generation. Here his work connects with those same roots of respect for the spiritual.
In East LA curanderismo is nothing distant: many families grew up watching their grandmother sweep a child's fright away with an egg or light a candle when something was wrong. That memory is still alive on Whittier Blvd and in the neighborhoods of City Terrace, Maravilla and Belvedere. Don Jacinto Nahual continues that same line, that of the town curandero, but with the deep formation of Catemaco, for those who want more than a home remedy.
Today it is also the children and grandchildren, born here, who come back looking for those roots when life overwhelms them. They do not always know how to explain what they feel; they only know something is not right. Don Jacinto receives them without judging, in English or Spanish or however they feel comfortable, and helps them put a name to what they carry.
