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Allopathic vs Holistic/Wholisic Medicine – What is the Difference Allopathic medicine basically treats the symptoms and for me it means a one-glove-fits-all sort of treatment. If your dog has an ear infection, you’re given antibiotics to administer. If your dog has diarrhea, you’re given medication to stop it. If you dog has allergies, you’re given steroids to quell the itching. Allopathy is, therefore, the treatment of disease by creating conditions that are opposite to the conditions resulting from the disease itself: from Greek roots meaning other and disease. Drugs and surgery are allopathic treatments. Holistic/Wholistic medicine targets the whole individual-mind body and spirit. Wholistic medicine considers not only physical health, but also the emotional, spiritual, social and mental well being, too. It is a broadly descriptive term for a healing philosophy that a patient is a whole individual not as just a disease or a collection of symptoms. A simple appearing symptom may have
