Allopathic medicine

Allopathy ( from Ancient Greek allos ἄλλος, different nature, different ' and πάθος páthos, suffering '), also allopathy, was originally a name of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, for certain non - homeopathic treatments. Later Hahnemann expanded the term to all then-recognized, taught at the medical schools of therapy (the " former medical school " ) that were pejoratively called " conventional medicine " of Hahnemann. Currently, the word allopathy is more commonly used similarly to conventional medicine against scientific medicine, and occasionally by proponents of other therapeutic approaches that contradict homeopathy.

As represented for Hahnemann diseases as a complex of symptoms, he distinguished the observed by him medical treatment methods logically according to their position to the symptoms in homeopathy, isopathically, antipathetic / enantiopathisch / palliative and all ( ö ) opathisch:

• The homeopathic method tries to cure disease symptoms with such drugs that have similar symptoms create ( similia similibus curentur ).
• Isopathic method tries to use the same substance which causes the disease to cure. According to Hahnemann It causes the aggravation of the disease.
• The antipathetic method tries to heal with such drugs, the symptoms of the disease opposite spawn ( contraria contrariis ). This " rule of the ancient medical school " means Hahnemann than just placating ( palliative ), because it leads to the contrary only briefly ( eg sleepless patients with poppy juice for a while drowsy do ) and the vitality of weakness.
• The allopathic method tries to heal with such drugs that cause something completely different, different than the patient being watched. By this term Hahnemann criticized the concept loose from his perspective dealing with the then conventional medicine often mixed several substances that were not aligned in their effect on the symptom picture of the patient, but on a suspected cause. Their action saw Hahnemann in bringing forth additional, artificial " drug - disease," which may be added to the original disease and complicate this.

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• Samuel Hahnemann: Organon of Medicine, 6th edition, preface, forewords - Organon of Medicine, 6th edition - Samuel Hahnemann, § 22 note, § 23 Organon of Medicine, 6th edition - Samuel Hahnemann and other § §