1. Allopathic medicine is term applied by homeopathists to the ordinary or traditional medical practice

2. Allopathy (n.) 1836, "treatment of disease by remedies that produce effects opposite to the symptoms," from German Allopathie (Hahnemann), from Greek allos "other" (from PIE root *al-"beyond") + -patheia, "suffering, disease, feeling" (see -pathy).The term applied by homeopathists to traditional medicine; the formation is much-criticized by purists; the equivalent Greek compound had a