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[Medicina supresora y medicina estimulante: una mirada penetrante de la práctica médica].

La teoría de la medicina supresora (MS) y la medicina estimulante (ME) destaca dos formas radicalmente distintas de entender la enfermedad y de enfrentarla. Para la MS es un objeto extraño o ajeno al organismo que hay que disminuir o destruir (suprimir); para la ME es un trastorno de la armonía interna que requiere fortalecer o avivar el organismo para restablecerla (estimular). En la medicina moderna, el poder de la industria de la salud favorece el predominio de la MS, por su alta rentabilidad, y la marginación de las medicinas alternativas (MA), poco rentables que, al igual que la vacunación o las terapias sustitutivas y regenerativas, son formas de ME. El efecto placebo (EP) inherente a la práctica médica, revelador de fuerzas curativas endógenas susceptibles de estimulación, da sentido a la ME y credibilidad a las MA. La dirección del EP de lo macro (psicosocial) a lo micro (físico-químico) explica su alta especificidad y ausencia de efectos secundarios. El efecto farmacológico de lo micro a lo macro, opuesto a las fuerzas endógenas, conlleva indefectiblemente efectos secundarios que requieren ulteriores supresiones y dosis repetidas indefinidamente. Se analizan equívocos de la ciencia con respecto al EP y al imponer a las MA criterios metódicos propios de la MS, que las desvirtúa, descalifica y excluye como objetos de conocimiento. Se insiste en la necesidad de reconocer la ME y rescatar las MA para la indagación, a fin de explorar sinergias, complementos o reemplazos con relación a la MS en la búsqueda del bien vivir.

The theory of suppressive (SuM) and stimulant (StM) medicine highlights two radically different ways of understanding and coping with diseases. For SuM it is a strange or foreign object to the organism that must be diminished or destroyed (suppressed); for StM it is a disorder of internal harmony that requires strengthening or enlivening the body to re-establish it (stimulate). In modern medicine, the power in the health industry favors the predominance of SuM, because of its high profitability, and the marginalization of low-cost alternative medicines (AM) that, like vaccination or substitutive and regenerative therapies, are forms of StM. The placebo effect (PE) inherent to medical practice, revealing of endogenous curative forces susceptible to stimulation, gives meaning to StM and credibility to AM. The direction of the PE from the macro (psychosocial) to the micro (physical-chemical) explains its high specificity and absence of side effects. The pharmacological effect of the micro to the macro, opposed to the endogenous forces, inevitably entails side effects that require further suppression and indefinite repetition of doses. Scientific assertions that misunderstand PE, and impose on the AM methodical criteria of the SuM that detract, disqualify and exclude them as objects of knowledge, are analyzed. The emphasis is on the need to recognize the StM and rescue the AM for inquiry in order to explore synergies, complements or replacements in relation to the SuM, in the quest for to live well.

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