a system of medical practice that aims to combat disease by use of drug remedies producing effects different from or incompatible with those produced by the special disease treated. The opposite of Homeopathy – : A system of medical practice making use of all measures that have proved of value in treatment of disease.
also called allopathy, the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects different from those produced by the disease itself
The conventional, mainstream Western approach to health care, based on treating symptoms and isolating a specific disorder rather that treating the whole person.
The mainstream school of medicine whose therapeutic modalities are generally confined to surgery, radiation, and synthetic drug therapies. Allopathic medicine utilizes the principle of opposites and is characterized by specialization according to diagnoses or anatomy. All licensed M.D.s have a basic education in allopathic medicine.
A method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects different from those caused by the disease itself. The treatment of symptoms or malfunctions, with the end goal of restoring a body to an accepted definition of "normal." (See "The Cure, Pt. 1" for more info on this.)
The medical science to treating sysmptoms.
Refers to contemporary western medical approaches which utilize drugs, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and a number of other invasive and non-invasive medical procedures to provide symptomatic relief and treatment of illness and injury.
The thinking that chemistry is the root of most problems and that the use of drugs to restore normal chemistry levels will help cure illnesses. Most M.D.s are more allopathic than osteopathic (taking note of some specialties), but the two disciplines are definitely not mutually exclusive.
The traditional medicine of Western culture, which focuses on a specific disease or problem and treats it.
Allopathy or Allopathic medicine (from Gr. allos, other, and pathos, suffering) is the name given by Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy,http://www.allopathy.healthspace.eu/ Allopathy to the methods of his medical foes. The term is sometimes used today to refer to conventional medicine. The correct meaning and use of the term is a point of disputation, even among the authorities.