JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Abstract

Medicine (‘biomedicine’, ‘allopathic medicine’, ‘conventional medicine’) is a health care approach, applies scientific principles, utilizes medical re-search to treat specific diseases and prevent illness. Commonly used strategies involved are use of pharmaceuticals and surgical procedures with tech-nologically advanced interventions. A strong belief in allopathic medicine is that most diseases can ulti-mately be determined to have a physical, biochemi-cal, infectious or genetic cause. The Influence of mind on health and disease is not much emphasized in medical education except in the discipline of psy-chiatry