How does modern medicine (allopathy) work?

Why does 'I took it and got better' prove nothing? Hahnemann, homeopathy's founder, coined 'allopathy' around 1810 as a label for his rivals. Today it means evidence-based biomedicine, built on anatomy, physiology, germ theory and pharmacology, and in India delivered by MBBS doctors regulated since 2020 by the National Medical Commission.

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Chapters in this interactive model

1. What "allopathy" really means: A name coined by a rival, four foundations of science, and how India trains doctors and runs its hospitals.
2. Finding what’s wrong: History, examination and tests narrow the possibilities. And why a positive test for a rare disease is often wrong.
3. How a medicine works: Keys and locks, the dose that helps, the dose that harms, and the journey through liver and kidney.
4. The fair test: Split patients at random, hide who got what, count honestly, repeat. Then see how small, open or unpublished trials fool us.
5. The big wins: Vaccines, antibiotics, painless surgery, insulin, a packet of salts, and plant remedies that passed the test.
6. Honest limits: Side effects, resistance, too many pills, cost, rushed visits, industry money, and the debate about mixing systems.