1.   Whenever a member of her household became ill, she called a medicine woman to perform a magical rite.

2.   Amalia Astorga, a Comcaac medicine woman, had massaged sore legs and blistered feet with a salve made from the leaves of the creosote bush.

3.   She does not call herself a medicine woman.

4.   The objects are illustrations in the story the medicine woman has worked to keep alive.

5.   The medicine woman said the mother needed a like blessing so Neva, too, was anointed with a wand of cedar and sage.

6.   Whoopi Goldberg, who co-produces this new series, guest-stars in the pilot as the all-knowing medicine woman who brings them together.

7.   Frustrated by his poor performance, he went to Munich to seek the advice of a Portuguese medicine woman.

8.   The medicine women used the mamala tree to treat hepatitis.

9.   A devoted Catholic, he went for treatment to a locally-known medicine woman who told him a member of his team had been trying to poison him.