Western medicine  or allopathic medicine is modern evidence-based system of medicine where doctors and other healthcare professionals treat diseases and symptoms using conventional medications.

It is said to be most reliable scientific approach to managing health problems and every treatment modality is approved after rigorous scientific trials. Unlike complementary medicine, allopathic medicine relies on clinical examination and investigations to confirm a diagnosis, rather than just focusing on a person’s symptoms and signs.

Conventional (allopathic) medicine treatment modalities pharmacological drugs, surgery, and other therapies including radiation therapies.

The western medicine practitioners or doctors need to have a long rigorous study time in medical school to learn and practice various aspects of body systems like cardio-vascular system, nervous system, respiratory system, musculo-skeletal system etc. Further specialisation into systems give a higher status i.e. consultant and takes few more years, however they have thorough knowledge and are highly sought.

Saying all that, teher is no cure for many diseases or clinical conditions in western medicine. The treatment for such conditions is just for controlling or suppressing symptoms like pain in fibromyalgia, breathins problems in asthma etc.

There is rigorous process for approval of drugs although it varies from country to country i.e. FDA in USA, MHRA in UK etc.