Allopathic Medicine

The system of medical practice that treats disease by the use of remedies that produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment.

The term ‘allopathy’ was coined in 1842 by CFS Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine (allopathy) as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that he founded based on the concept that disease can be treated with drugs (in minute doses) thought capable of producing the same symptoms in healthy people as the disease itself.