Conventional modern medicine. Originally only one of eight or so schools of medicine in the United States. By 1930, through a brilliant blend of legislative action, money generation through advertising in the journal of the American Medical Association, control over the licensing of medical schools, and deceptive conciliation· of other medical organizations, the allopaths gained complete control over American medicine. Prices and quality of health care suffered accordingly.
System of medicine that uses treatments that oppose the pathology, i.e. anti-inflammatories to treat inflammation. Also refers to modern scientific medicine.
Medical treatments recognized by a specific culture as being traditional, conventional, or mainstream; for example, Western medicine.
In the realm of conventional medical approaches to treating disease symptoms, there exists a practice that revolves around the utilization of substances or techniques aimed at counteracting or suppressing these very symptoms.