Madrid · Gallup · New Mexico

Three generations.
One unbroken tradition.

This is not a brand story. It's a family story. The healing knowledge behind Cura Verde was never invented — it was inherited, practiced, and proven across three generations. What you're reading here is what it cost, and what it produced.

Cecilia D. Martinez
Cecilia D. Martinez July 13, 1923 – Madrid, New Mexico
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First Generation · La Abuela

Cecilia D. Martinez

Born July 13, 1923 · Madrid, New Mexico · Daughter of Alberto DeLara and Margarita Zamora

Cecilia was the family healer. Not by profession — by necessity and knowledge. She raised twelve children and treated them with what she knew: home remedies, holy anointing oil, and the plant-based medicines she learned from her own mother. Neighbors came to her the way you'd go to a doctor. She didn't charge them.

The real proof came in 1990. Her husband George was diagnosed with bladder cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer, leukemia, diabetes, aortic stenosis, hypertension, congestive heart failure on both sides, and glaucoma. He was a bilateral below-knee amputee. Hospice gave him six months. George refused all modern treatment.

Cecilia treated him with her home remedies. George C. Martinez lived eight years past that diagnosis — from 1990 to 1998. He passed away peacefully in his sleep, at home, surrounded by family. No hospital. No interventions. Just his wife's remedies and whatever grace exists between them.

That outcome is Cura Verde's origin story. Not a marketing angle — a fact. A man given six months lived eight years. The knowledge that made that possible is what this company is built to carry forward.

Madrid, New Mexico Born 1923 to Alberto DeLara and Margarita Zamora
Married George C. Martinez Raised 12 children; family healer for generations
1990–1998 8 years of home remedy care for a terminal diagnosis hospice said was 6 months
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Hospice said six months.
Cecilia gave him eight years.

George C. Martinez was a bilateral amputee with nine simultaneous diagnoses. Terminal by any clinical measure. He refused all modern treatment. Cecilia treated him at home with plant-based remedies and holy anointing oil.

He died peacefully in his sleep in 1998 — eight years after the six-month prognosis. The knowledge that made that possible is not a footnote. It is the reason Cura Verde exists.

The thread continues
Margaret Carrillo
Margaret "Margie" Carrillo February 10, 1947 · Gallup, New Mexico
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Second Generation · La Madre

Margaret "Margie" Carrillo

Born February 10, 1947 · Gallup, New Mexico · Daughter of George C. and Cecilia D. Martinez

Margie was born into the knowledge. She watched her mother heal. When the time came, she stepped into the same role — first for her father, then for her son.

From 1990 to 1998, while Cecilia treated George with her remedies, Margie provided full-time hands-on care. Eight years. She was there every day. When George passed in 1998, she had already proven she could carry the knowledge forward.

The second test came when her son Jimmy was discharged from the hospital after surviving necrotizing fasciitis — the flesh-eating bacteria that had consumed 42% of his left torso and 18% of his left arm. Jimmy came home with open wounds that required dressing changes three times a day.

Margie took over the wound care. Three dressing changes a day, every day. Open wounds. Zero infections. Not one, across the entire recovery. The hospital staff noted it when he came back for checkups. Her care exceeded what a clinical setting had managed to do.

Some of the home remedy recipes Margie carries — Cecilia's recipes, and her own adaptations — are the foundation of the Cura Verde product line. They are not formulated in a lab. They were formulated over a lifetime.

Gallup, New Mexico Born 1947; married Paul G. Carrillo, February 8, 1964
8 years as caregiver Full-time care for George C. Martinez through his terminal illness
Zero infections Three daily wound dressing changes on open necrotizing fasciitis wounds — no infections under her care
The thread continues
Tiger
Paul G. Carrillo Jr.
Paul G. Carrillo Jr. "Tiger" January 8, 1965 · Gallup, New Mexico
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Third Generation · The Founder

Paul G. Carrillo Jr. "Tiger"

Born January 8, 1965 · Gallup, New Mexico · Former EMT, New Mexico (Active Credentials)

Paul grew up watching his grandmother heal. He spent eight years alongside his mother caring for his grandfather. He became an EMT — not just a credential, but a framework: assess, act, don't wait for permission when a life is on the line.

That framework was tested in ways most people never face. Twice with his brothers. Both times, the medical establishment failed first. Paul corrected it.

Jimmy's story. In 2015, Jimmy showed up at a local ER. The on-call doctor misdiagnosed necrotizing fasciitis — flesh-eating bacteria — as non-emergent. Refused air transport. Paul was in Los Angeles when he got the call. He diagnosed it over the phone, overrode the ER doctor using his EMT credentials, activated LifeGuard 1 helicopter, and found an accepting physician in Albuquerque. He then flew across the country.

The bacteria had consumed 42% of Jimmy's left torso and 18% of his left arm by the time he reached Albuquerque. Their mother Margie — a Jehovah's Witness — was medical decision-maker and refused blood transfusion. The attending doctor guilt-tripped her into a psychological crisis. Paul took over as medical advocate. He confronted the doctor directly: "You guarantee death if I don't sign for the transfusion, but you can't guarantee life if I do." He fired the doctor. Found a physician willing to perform bloodless therapy.

When Jimmy's blood count kept dropping and no intervention was working, Paul — drawing on his EMT training — suggested erythropoietin (Epogen) to stimulate bone marrow production. The doctor agreed it was correct, but couldn't inject it without hospital board approval. It was Friday night. The board couldn't convene until Monday. The doctor set the vial on the table and left the room.

Paul checked Jimmy's hemoglobin from his chart. Calculated the dosage by weight. Drew up the syringe. Injected it into the IV port himself. It stabilized the blood count. Jimmy's levels held. The crisis passed.

Jimmy was in a coma for 76 days. At midnight on Christmas Eve, Paul sat beside him and said: "Merry Christmas, Jimmy. It's time to wake up. Give Mom her Christmas present and open your eyes." Jimmy's eyes fluttered open. He was discharged to rehab. Margie took over wound care at home — zero infections, as noted. Jimmy recovered fully and lived until 2015, when he died of a Widow Maker heart attack.

Chris's story. Paul's other brother Chris developed a gangrenous toe. Surgery to amputate was scheduled. Paul treated him overnight using Cecilia's remedies — holy anointing oil and traditional plant medicines. The next morning, the surgeon examined the toe and found new tissue granulation and restored blood flow. The surgery was canceled. Chris later experienced kidney failure and declined catheterization. Paul treated him with a 50-herb compound: Palo Azul, cola de caballo, corn silk, ruda, hierba del zopilote. His kidneys are improving. The attending physician asked about the tea composition. Chris continues to recover.

Former EMT, New Mexico Active credentials; used them to override a misdiagnosis and activate LifeGuard 1 helicopter transport
76 days Jimmy in a coma. Paul stayed. At midnight Christmas Eve, Jimmy opened his eyes.
Gangrenous toe, surgery canceled One night of Cecilia's remedies. New tissue granulation by morning. Amputation called off.
Southwest Tiger Rub Product line bearing the family name — Tiger — carries the same formulation philosophy into every bottle

These aren't claims.
They're family history.

Cura Verde products carry the same knowledge that kept a terminal man alive for eight more years, cleared a gangrenous toe overnight, and supported a set of failing kidneys while a surgeon asked what was in the tea. That knowledge is now in a bottle, sourced with care, labeled honestly.

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