Introduction: Neural therapy is a type of alternative medicine of relatively recent origin, so is a complex medical system under construction. So far, it has not made a conceptual synthesis that allows formulating the theoretical principles underpinning its doctrinal corpus as complex medical system. Objective: To develop the theoretical principles that underlines the doctrinal corpus of neural therapy. Methodology: Literature review neurophysiological school English Russian Pavlovian school, in addition to research in the area of neural therapy, in order to make the formulation of a general principles and thus sustain them in premises of preference comply with the qualitative characteristics of induction, which from Peircean logic confer a high degree of accuracy and logical-scientific rigor. Results: We performed a synthesis of logical inferences, of which 7 were obtained with the final status statements of principle. Conclusions: The description of the principles carried out in this work is a contribution to the construction of the doctrinal corpus of neural therapy as complex medical system. Salud UIS 2012; 44 (2): 57-65