Mr. Editor: I had the opportunity to review an article published in the first edition of the journal of the Facultad de Medicina Humana de la Universidad Ricardo Palma this year, which is entitled consumption of foods rich in antioxidants in outpatients with diabetic retinopathy at the hospital la carlota during 2021, identified with DOI n° 10.25176/RFMH.v22i1.4121 and written by Raquel Martínez-Kurata, et al., where they sought to find the amount of antioxidant consumption focusing on vitamins C, E and selenium in patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR), which managed to capture my attention and aroused my curiosity, motivating me to seek more information about it. Let me comment on some points of view in common with the authors.

This article will analyse «Las brujas de Ica», a text that forms part of the sixth series of the Tradiciones peruanas, a work by the illustrious writer Ricardo Palma, in which he creates an analogy between two situations separated by time but which are closely related. Firstly, the discrimination or rejection of the Holy Inquisition towards everything that was unknown, especially that related to the medicine of the time, considering it «witchcraft»; and secondly, the current discrimination of the figure of the healer by some doctors, who reject all types of alternative medicine, considering it invalid, lacking sufficient scientific evidence or dangerous.