Broadening our Definition of Allopathic Medicine

The term "allopathy" was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. 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.  So allopathy is defined as “the system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment. Dr. Arya Nielsen says, “Please be advised the definition of allopathy includes any counteractive paradigm including all the modalities you name except for homeopathy. Acupuncture, for example, is allopathic.” Because none of the substances in Natural Allopathic Medicine involves using drugs that require prescription many types of health professionals can be trained in its use. Dr. Arya is correct, acupuncture is allopathic but much of oriental medical thinking is not. Yes acupuncturists treat disease by use of remedies (needles, herbs and moxa) and is trained in differential diagnosis. Acupuncturists are licensed to practice medicine of a special kind, one that creates images of disharmony instead of pigeonholing people with diagnostic labels. The point is, we really have to broaden our definition of medicine. The animosity between allopathic doctors and chiropractic doctors through the decades, and between allopaths and naturopaths, is unbecoming of the world of medicine. The grand unification of all medical modalities is prevented by medical egos that take great stands of rightness. The allopathic paradigm is totally unacceptable as it is. What can we make of an institution that would rather kill people and cause them further disease (iatrogenic death and disease) than admit its wrongness and slavery to the big pharmaceuticals. We are literally in the dark ages of medicine but we just don’t see it, we don’t really want to know how evil the medical ego can be.