substitutive therapy

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[sub′stit(y)o̅o̅′tiv]

Etymology: L, substituere, to put in place of; Gk, therapeia, treatment

a treatment that effects a condition incompatible with or antagonistic to the condition being treated. Also called allopathy.

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