From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishconventional medicineconventional medicineMHthe usual form of medicine practised in most European and North American countries SYN western medicine → conventional
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conventional medicine• Much of conventional medicine has its roots in traditional medicine.• Currently, the problems people go online with the most are the problems that conventional medicine helps the least.• This tremendous progress of conventional medicine in the present century has confirmed belief in the treatment by opposites.• Many of them have been failed by conventional medicine or have rejected it.• Large areas of conventional medicine thus represent particular aspects of traditional medicine systematically developed and extended.• It works in a totally different way from conventional medicine, which is known to Homoeopathic practitioners as Allopathy. 