Complex Thinking in Traditional Medicine

Abstract

This article describes the link between Complex Thinking and Ancestral and Traditional Medicine within the framework of the Learning Community of the Simón Rodriguez National Experimental University as part of the Doctoral training process, using the analysis of the book, Introduction to Complex Thought, by Edgar Morin as a discursive resource. From the point of view of the worldview of health care, ancestral medicine is a complex world network that interrelates and integrates the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects necessary to achieve balance and well-being. Factors that allow one to deepen the paradigmatic approach of this form of holistic, integrative thought are addressed by generating scientific knowledge as part of the investigative and proactive work carried out in doctoral studies. The concepts of order and disorder, self-organization, autonomy, complexity, completeness, reason, rationality, and rationalization are essential to compare the model of scientific determinism with complex thinking and its contrast in the study of ancestral and traditional medicine. In conclusion, as a fundamental social right, framed within the realm of human rights, health reaches its complex action and understanding made possible by Ancestral and Traditional Medicine. Therefore, it is necessary to deepen the proposal of the paradigmatic reform that will allow knowledge to be created without deterministic bias, giving room to subjectivity and uncertainty as part of a multidimensional universe that Ancestral Medicine itself has