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Origins of the Albularyo
The word albularyo comes from the Spanish word herbolario or herbalist. He is a person who specializes in herb lore, which he uses for treating ailments, whether supernatural or not. But long before the Spaniards came to the archipelago, Filipinos had long put their trust in the powerful babaylans and catalonans, the precolonial equivalents of today’s albularyos.
