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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Botanicas</title>
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		<title>Mainstream medicine is beginning to explore the aisles of botanicas</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shops, burgeoning in the Southland, sell herbs and remedies long used by Latinos.
Drive along many boulevards in the Los Angeles area and you will see colorful botanicas, with their curious mix of candles, incense, potions, lotions, rosaries and a pantheon of Catholic and folk saints in the window. Botanicas have arrived in this metropolis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Botanicas &#8212; supply stores for the gods</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2004 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spiritual gifts for the deities of the world
Customers ask for the strangest things in botanicas, little stores that sell candles, potions, statues and other spiritual sundries used to summon gods and goddesses, saints and demons, from religions far and near.
Some shoppers may want to bring down Ogun, an African warrior god who loves black cigars, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional botanicas serve Latino community</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2003 01:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some mornings, before Ana and her husband Fernando Almanza arrive at 8 a.m. to open the doors of their shop Botanica Ana in Salt Lake City, there&#8217;s a line at the front door.
Their customers are looking for dried herbs to use in natural home remedies, mint for stomach aches, eucalyptus to cure a cold. Some [...]]]></description>
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