Visit to the Curandeiro

I visited a curandeiro (a healer who practice traditional medicine) generally; people would reach out to a curandeiro to get treated. The curandeiro can (supposedly) cure people with plants but also can see the future.

See, this is how it works. The curandeiro has a bag filled with shells and coins, he spits in the bag, the ‘patient’ needs to blow on it and the container of the bag is thrown on the floor. This is how the curandeiro can see what kind of ‘disease’ the patient has. And offer to get rid of the disease through various practices such as combining natural plants but it can go to using scalpels and then I don’t know how it goes. So at the end, how to do in the case of a person who is HIV positive? How can a curandeiro see if the patient is HIV positive?

How can he/she help cure the patient with plants if he contracted HIV?

I realize how complicated cultures/tradition interferes with modern medicine…

Usually, there is a curandeiro in each town, and as a health volunteer, how can I manage working with a curandeiro to incite people to go straight to the hospital, get tested and get medicine. Curandeiros can transmit HIV with their practices in which they use scalpels and where rituals are asked to pass the blood from one to another as a ritual path. After several training on traditional medicines and talk. I do believe that it is important to educate curandeiros first since there are the first demanded by the community and educate them to practice safe manners when curing patients and incite patient to see a doctor if the patient does not feel or look well after being treated with traditional medicine.