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mainstream medicine

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mainstream medicine
Allopathic medicine, allopathy, conventional medicine, modern medicine, orthodox medicine, traditional medicine, Western medicine Clinical medicine The approach to health care practiced in developed nations, based on scientific data for diagnosing and treating disease; MM assumes that all physiologic and pathological phenomena can be explained in concrete terms; tools of MM include nonhuman model systems, blinded studies, statistical analysis, to ensure reproducible results. Cf Alternative medicine.


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Home remedies for diarrhea are preferred to mainstream medicine because the latter is generally intended to treat the symptoms and not the underlying cause, and can therefore be more harmful than beneficial.
The field of pain medicine has been rapidly evolving, but the growing number of older patients with chronic pain conditions often not only do not get relief from mainstream medicine but suffer further due to drug interactions and invasive procedures.
In many countries, including some European countries, aromatherapy benefits are considered a part of mainstream medical practice while in others, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, they are thought of as alternative or complementary to mainstream medicine.
 
 
 
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