Allopathy is "the treatment of disease by conventional means, i.e. with drugs having effects opposite to the symptoms". i.e. conventional medicine.
A person asked me how she should approach her mechanical muscular pain. Should she try osteopathy, or should she go through the medical pathway?
My answer was.
The body has an incredible ability to regenerate itself.
It is one of the founding principles of osteopathy.
If you get the body in the correct position and alignment and allow it to move how it wants to, it can heal most of the time. A good functional alignment and freedom of movement allow for good blood flow and nerve and lymphatic drainage flow.
However, on rare occasions, when the body cannot adapt and heal itself well, such as a previous injury, obesity, or excess stress to the body is either mental or physical, it can prevent that access for our body to heal and recover. And this is where allopathic (conventional medicine) can be involved.