Despite rapid advances in modern medicine, a large portion of developing countries favor herbal remedies to cure ailments and other illnesses requiring medical attention. People around the world have used medicinal plants for as long as humans have existed on earth. They used herbs, plants and roots in their healing rituals to treat physical and spiritual illnesses. Countries like Africa, Asia and the Mariana Islands still use traditional treatments as primary health care. Guam, one of the most developed islands in the Mariana Islands, has used traditional remedies since the Spanish conquered the ancient Chamorros. Ancient Chamorros used plants found around the island to treat the sick and identified people who used traditional remedies as suruhanus for men and suruhanas for women. They came to believe that the suruhanus or suruhanas are the doctors we have today. Besides suruhanus and suruhanas, the ancient Chamorros also had another type of healer: makahna and kakahna. The Makahnas and Kakahnas, believed by the Chamorros, are shamans who maintained links between the physical and spiritual worlds and possessed magical powers. Reading about these healers inspired me to do extensive research on the suruhanus of Guam, especially after coming across “Suruhanas: A Profile of Traditional Women Healers from Umatac Village, Guam” by Ann M. Pobutsky. Although coming across a chapter based on traditional healers was purely a coincidence, I decided to do some research on these people. Doing this research helped me identify the main factors leading to a sense of spiritual and ritual identity on Guam. It helped me recognize the cultural uniqueness... middle of paper ...... speaking of Linda Ortiz, massages a pregnant woman's belly to ensure the baby is in the correct position for birth. In addition to assisting in childbirth, suruhanas also give medicine for abortions. Pobutsky writes about the different methods used by herbalists for women having difficulty giving birth. One gives medicine, while the other has a shower recipe. The third could regulate a woman's periods. Pobutsky's article concludes that female herbalists function similarly to male herbalists, but are more specialized in women's illnesses and problems (Ann M. Pobutsky: Suruhana). Being a suruhanu or suruhana, based on the suruhanu healing system described by Patrick MaMakin, this knowledge is passed down from a suruhanu parent. Pobutsky notes in his article that only two herbalists used the suruhanu system. THE