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Between Faith and Tradition: the Mysterious Use of the Guanaco Leg that Lasts in La Rioja and Northern Argentina – El Federal Online

A tradition that goes through generations and remains in force in many Riojan homes In times when modern medicine dominates the treatment of diseases, some ancestral practices continue in the villages of the Argentine interior. One of them is the use of the guanaco leg to treat facial paralysis, a custom deeply rooted in La Rioja and much of the north of the country. This ancestral tradition returned to memory, for a publication on social networ…
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A tradition that goes through generations and remains in force in many Riojan homes In times when modern medicine dominates the treatment of diseases, some ancestral practices continue in the villages of the Argentine interior. One of them is the use of the guanaco leg to treat facial paralysis, a custom deeply rooted in La Rioja and much of the north of the country. This ancestral tradition returned to memory, for a publication on social networ…

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elfederalonline.com broke the news on Monday, June 8, 2026.
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