What is the difference between holistic and allopathic medicine?
In brief, the Allopathic approach (Western Medical Model of today) has been based throughout history upon the concept that the physician is responsible for the healing, and that “disease” must be irradiated from the body using heroic intervention. It is central to allopathic belief that the disease is stronger than the body. This philosophy (Rationalism) has also maintained that man must use his reasoning to decipher disease processes, must develop specific treatments for each disease, and must accumulate a body of scientific knowledge in order to explain both disease and the basis for treatments and further discovery. The body as a whole is broken down into countless, isolated parts and treated as such, due to a scientific model, which aspires to control body processes in order to restore health or rid the body of an invading disease. On the other hand, the Vitalist approach (Natural or Holistic Models) has maintained, since the time of Hippocrates, that it is the body that does the h
