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Allopathy:

Term referring to standard Western medicine; from the Greek allos (different) and pathein (disease, suffering) and thus reflects the use of drugs whose effects are different from those of the disease being treated. Allopathy was coined by the founder of Homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann, for conventional medical practice that utilizes medications different from the disease being treated and which have no relationship to the disease symptoms. This form of medicine had its start in the 1,500's, when the Catholic Church banned midwifery, and herbalism as practiced by country folk and put medicine in the hands of men, often of some nobility or status. It refers to the use of drugs or other means to antidote a disease or symptom, in a manner not necessarily cooperative with the body's natural functions.

The currently dominant form of medicine practiced by physicians who graduate from medical school and write "MD" after their names. As the form of medicine became more organized, often through political maneuvering, the doctors were also known as 'chemicalists' for their heavy reliance on chemicals in treating patients. A heroic form of medicine as it only comes into play once a disease state exists and is also known as "conventional medicine" in Western societies. Allopathy focuses on treating symptoms of diseases primarily through prescription drugs. This approach utilizes a process of reductionism (focusing on the symptoms exhibited in a part of the organism rather than focusing on the organism as a whole).

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