“…21 In various Latin American countries where Intercultural health has been applied, strategies of hegemony have been carried out, with actions aimed at the knowledge of traditional medicine, its scope and applications 7 , posing these hegemonic models, these countries have faced the challenge of getting traditional therapists accredited, in order to avoid malpractice and trickery in its execution. 22 The institutionalization of traditional therapists and their empowerment within the health system will place them in a legal framework so that these new social agents have the possibility of exercising in a legitimate manner 23 , respecting the knowledge of other's and generating spaces of trust in which both medicines converge and create human resources with intercultural competence and sensitivity. 24 By doing so, professionals will develop a broad, comprehensive epidemiological vision of the ways of understanding the healthdisease process by indigenous people, as their perception of reality, ideology and life have been generated in the knowledge of nature and the environment that surrounds them.…”