What is Allopathic Medicine?

Allopathic Medicine is the term Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (founder of the Heilkunst system, of which homeopathy is a branch) coined some 200 years ago to refer to traditional Western Medicine. He believed that the emphasis on crisis medicine and painful cures was unnecessary. Rather than cut off a limb because of Diabetes, why not treat the patient through diet, exercise, counselling, and natural remedies that gently promote increased circulation and blood vessel elasticity, for example?

Allopathic medicine focuses on treating specific symptoms in isolation, rather than considering the whole patient. Even today, surgery and synthetic drugs are the main tools of Allopathy. It is, however, encouraging to see that many of today’s physicians who initially practiced only allopathic medicine are now realizing the value of the more holistic approach pioneered by Heilkunst practitioners.