#allopathy

• Allopathic — Relating to physicians, treatment methods, or pharmaceutical products: pertaining to allopathy or conventional scientific medicine; a physician who practices evidence-based medicine, utilizing chemical substances or active procedures that produce effects opposite or contrary to the symptoms of the disease being treated (following the contraria contrariis curantur principle). This structural system differs fundamentally from homeopathy or complementary empirical practices.
• Allopathy — A conventional, evidence-based therapeutic method or system that combats diseases by administering medicinal remedies or procedures that produce physiological manifestations or reactions opposite or distinct from those caused by the disease itself. This structural term was historically created to clearly differentiate official scientific medicine from alternative homeopathic doctrines.