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The 'hilots' or 'albularyos,' as they are called, practice the art of touch therapy and have often been associated with the dark arts, portrayed as gifted healers or mystics who can use black magic to kill.
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However, modern Filipinos may remember the arbularyos or hilots who may also have the gift of traveling to the spirit world or non-ordinary states of reality in order to mediate with the spirits.
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The hilots however are legally allowed to work in areas where registered midwives, doctors or nurses are not present.
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There remains no actual census on the hilots but the World Health Organization estimates there are some 250,000 practitioners of traditional medicine in the country.
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Only a handful of state-run hospitals employ acupuncturists and hilots.
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She did away with amulets, lifted the hilots 'veil of mysticism and practised scientific methods of healing the body.
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Modern health spas and therapy centres offer traditional massage, but hilots are still largely shunned in the formal medical field and the advent of modern science and technology has all but pushed them into extinction in some areas.
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Having trouble conceiving, anybody know of a "hilot" who can help? i've heard of hilots in the Philippines who can actually help in trying for a baby. please send me any contacts or directions you might have ... please also share success stories if any. just want some other women's inputs of what advice they can give me?
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