Medicinal Grass
This work, therefore, intends to present the main characteristics of the caboclo pajelana, raising a quarrel on the woman as paj in the Amaznia, and to analyze some practical and to know of cure and pajelana in Soure, from three women who cure. 2. CABOCLO PAJELANA IN the AMAZNIA the Brazilian culture congregates elements of diverse cultures and peoples, where since the beginning of the process of settling and exploration of the territory the relation between the etnias provided the formation of our cultural body, intensely diversified. Beyond other peoples and cultures that had participated of certain form in the settling of Brazil, the aboriginals, Portuguese and Africans had represented marcante presence and in them they had bequeathed aspects of its culture and religion until today.
The Amazonian culture, in turn, in its multiple faces and aspects is resultant of ‘ ‘ integration of the cultural elements of that they were carrying the ones that had participated of the process of settling of regio’ ‘ (FIGUEIREDO, 1972, P. 35). The caboclo pajelana is a significant aspect of the Brazilian culture, specifically, of the Amazonian culture. The caboclo pajelana is a sufficiently present religiosidade in some localities of the Amaznia, presenting its particularitities depending on the historical and social context and the locality in which she is inserted. We can attribute as characteristic generality of the pajelana the one that was defined by Heraldo Maus in ‘ ‘ The Encantada’ Island; ‘ (1990): a set of practical and xamansticas beliefs that have in its cultural expressions diverse elements of the aboriginal, African religiosidade and catholic, mesclados in changeable degrees. The caboclo pajelana, as well as the aboriginal, is characteristic forms of Xamanismo of the Amaznia. Xamanismo is understood as ‘ ‘ a religious phenomenon of Central and Northern Asia (altaicos peoples, buriatas, samoiedos, iacutes, tungues, voguls etc.) and of the Arctic regions north-Europeans (lapes) ‘ ‘ (MONTAL, 1986, p.13), that it retraces its origin to the Paleolithic period, more than the 25 a thousand years B.C.
