系列：第一民族：土著研究的新方向
帕特里西亚·冈萨雷斯将“红色医学”称为一种治疗系统，包括分娩实践、做梦和净化仪式，以重建个人和社会平衡。这本书探讨了北美各地的土著医学，特别强调了土著知识是如何在墨西哥遗留下来的民族中持续存在的。冈萨雷斯将她作为一名草药医生和传统助产士在红色医学领域的生活经历与对口头传统、讲故事和符号含义的深入研究结合起来，以揭示土著知识如何随着时间的推移而存在。她展示了奇卡诺斯人、墨西哥裔美国人和墨西哥土著人民如何重新获得这些知识。
对冈萨雷斯来说，红色医学的核心指导力量是再生的原则，正如蜘蛛女人所表现的那样。可以追溯到前哥伦布时代，中美洲织女/蜘蛛女是出生、医学和净化仪式的守护者，如纳华汗水浴，它体现了贯穿一生的精神、精神和身体表现的相互关联的再平衡过程。冈萨雷斯还解释了在传统的本土医学中，做梦是一种诊断形式，以及本土的身体概念如何为治愈各种创伤提供洞见。
冈萨雷斯通过研究古代符号及其与土著民族当前治疗知识的关系，将前哥伦布思想与当代治疗实践联系起来。红色医学表明，本土治疗系统可以有效地将当代人引向祖先的教导，帮助他们重新连接到自然世界的动态。
Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing
Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
Patrisia Gonzales addresses “Red Medicine” as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant with in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. And she shows how this knowledge is now being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican Americans and Mexican Indigenous peoples.
For Gonzales, a central guiding force in Red Medicine is the principal of regeneration as it is manifested in Spiderwoman. Dating to Pre-Columbian times, the Mesoamerican Weaver/Spiderwoman—the guardian of birth, medicine, and purification rites such as the Nahua sweat bath—exemplifies the interconnected process of rebalancing that transpires throughout life in mental, spiritual and physical manifestations. Gonzales also explains how dreaming is a form of diagnosing in traditional Indigenous medicine and how Indigenous concepts of the body provide insight into healing various kinds of trauma.
Gonzales links pre-Columbian thought to contemporary healing practices by examining ancient symbols and their relation to current curative knowledges among Indigenous peoples. Red Medicine suggests that Indigenous healing systems can usefully point contemporary people back to ancestral teachings and help them reconnect to the dynamics of the natural world.
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