Two Criteria That Support Allopathic Viewpoints

1. Define allopathic medicine and at least two criteria that support allopathic viewpoints.

Allopathic medicine, which is also known as biomedicine or Western medicine, involves the treatment of diseases using surgery, radiation, or pharmaceutical drugs. All of these treatments are used to quickly treat and suppress symptoms in the body. Because allopathic medicine is not holistic, every drug or procedure has a distinct purpose. It is acceptable to remove organs in order to save other organs because every part of the body is separate. Allopathic medicine is supported by science and all of the evidence from studies can be physically proved. Because allopathic physicians treat every organ separately, they look for physical causes of disease. …show more content…
Seventy-five percent of those affected are children under fifteen, and it typically affects males ages six to ten. It is characterized by severe lesions throughout the body that can develop into bone deformation if left untreated for many years. It is contracted by humans mostly in tropical areas with limited knowledge of germ theory and poor living conditions (“Yaws”). A person can get yaws through direct contact with an infected lesion. When a person contracts yaws disease, usually one lesion appears at the site of infection. As the mother lesion begins to heal, multiple lesions may begin to appear around the body. This is called early yaws. While these early lesions may heal completely, untreated yaws can reappear after five years to begin bone deformation and lymph node swelling in the nose and limbs. This is called late yaws. Late yaws can cause permanent disability. While there have been efforts to eradicate yaws in tropical countries, lack of funding and knowledge of the disease have made it difficult to provide poorer countries with the appropriate resources. There have been no vaccines found to prevent Yaws