Towards a decolonial health

Abstract

Upon the arrival of the Europeans to Abya Yala, the pre -existing peoples and nations were forced to rule out our constituent ancestral parameters on the management of health, disease, life, death and incorporate taxes by a culture that had not yet been resolved for itself, This current vision of universality of health.

 Modern Western logic imposes a universalist premise and hurt on the human body. As a predictable and independent machine, therefore, it studies it in parts, from there the hyper specializations, and the diseases as it causes demonstrable effects scientifically, and almost the mostly the material biological effect is treated, without any link with the emotional and/ or subtle.

This cut universalist belief of Western medicine is perhaps, one of the failures to so many unresolved problems on different continents, in the face of diseases. To achieve the myth of these stereotyped public policies, foods are distributed from the first years of life, to populations; Without taking into account his diets, his cultures, without understanding, for example, that the intestinal flora of a Charrúa child on the Costa del Paraná is not equal to that of the Californian coast. Medical recommendations are taken without taking into account sociocultural and environmental conditions.

At present, and despite the varied legislation in force in our country, Argentina, on the health rights of indigenous populations, the policies in this regard are only in dead letter without reaching its effectiveness. Adding one more historical debt.

Health is and will be for us peoples, a commitment to life, in the broadest feeling. A harmonious interrelation with the same, with the human and cosmic community where we develop. The medicinal practices determined by the principles of reciprocity, interrelation and correspondence with the whole in all dimensions of the lives.